Chris Deuchar's Books, Badges and Logos

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These are Chris's non-academic, and non-commercial, publications.
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For academic output go here.

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Chris N. Deuchar (1997)
A Boater's Guide to Boating

Published by Chris N. Deuchar in conjunction with
the Historic Narrow Boat Owners Club
ISBN 978-09531512-0-2
This book is a revised, and much expanded, version of a series of articles which first appeared in the newsletter of the Historic Narrow Boat Owners Club (HNBOC).
It is not a rewrite of that which appears in many other books on boating techniques, but seeks to carry on where they leave off. Nowhere before has anyone attempted to record, in any such detail, the special skills required to navigate the craft of our narrow canals, both historic and modern, along the waterways for which they were designed - and those for which they were not! Neither have so many hints and tips, derived directly from the ways and words of the former full time working boatmen, previously been collected in one place.
Wherever possible, the author has shown how old techniques can be used directly in the present day, and elsewhere how they can be adapted for present day use. The pattern of waterway usage has changed from a purely commercial operation to the multi-functional system that exists today. This has presented for the first time, potential areas of conflict between users, which the author addresses and suggests how techniques can be modified to retain their historic precedent whilst not being lost forever.
The author has more than thirty years of experience in handling boats, of all types from canoes to sailing craft, cruisers, narrow boats and barges, both for leisure and commerce, and in inland and coastal situations. The sum total of this wide range of practical and theoretical knowledge is accordingly deeply reflected in this publication.
It is above all a practical book, and should therefore not merely be read by those with a historic interest in past navigators - for there is much of historical interest here - but also by anyone who has ever steered a boat along our inland waterways or who intend to do so in the future. There is much, in particular, which will benefit those who boat single handedly.
It is a measure of the significance attributed to the original series of articles, that sections have (with the author's permission) been used more recently to provide instruction in boat handling for those involved in moving museum craft - such as the Friends of President and the Boat Museum at Ellesmere Port.
Cover Price: £5.00
Note: "The Boater's Guide to Boating" is no longer available directly from me. Please visit your usual bookseller or waterways outlet. Alternatively, buy from the "Waterways Book Service" , part of The Belmont Group. (Follow the links through 'Catalog', 'Waterways (Inland)' to 'Titles A-B')

Chris N. Deuchar
Early Steam Power

Published by Chris N. Deuchar
ISBN 978-09531512xxxx
In course of preparation! From Hero of Alexandria to James Watt. This book was originally written in 1978 as a college dissertation but it provides easy reading of the chronological development of steam power up to the mid-nineteenth century. This fully revised and re-illustrated version will interest both steam enthusiasts and scholars as it provides a concise account of the driving force behind the industrial revolution and the principal players involved.

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An early badge I designed for the Ashby Canal Association featuring their measham teapot logo

Another early badge for a neighbours trip boat operation using a standard piece of clipart

The first logo for the great internet boating community - otherwise known as the 'cutweb logo'. This was effectively designed 'by committee' internationally. The URL on this badge is now obsolete. For the full story go to http://www.canals.com/

The badge for the offshoot of the above which formed its own AWCC afiliated boat club - The Cutweb Internet Boat Club

Another boat club badge: for the Nottingham Yacht Club - to their own design. It is a paraody (for a sheep roast) of their own 'phoenix from the flames' logo.

Another NYC parody - this time just the bottle was added!

Yet another boat club offshoot!

...and something a little more traditional for the Historic Narrow Boat Owners Club

One for the local!

1994. One of an annual series for the Dolphin Morris Men organised 'Gate to Southwell' . This is a twenty mile charity procession/pub crawl from Nottingham to the head of the diocese at Southwell Minster which takes place every summer in June. The procession originates with the founding of the minster and this annual event started over 500 years ago.
This badge depicts the handing over of the 'Southwell Pence' which was a payment made from each of the Nottinghamshire parishes to pay for the minster's upkeep and which continues symbolically to this day.

1995. Morris dancers were known to have entertained the walkers as early as 1530 and are depicted in this badge. The characters are 'stolen' from the famous 'Betley Window'

1996. Another badge of entertainment en route - and more Betley window characters with the minster in the backgound. It isn't clear in this image but the black border contains a dotted white line to symbolise the roadway there

1997. A simple, but effective, design - the date is on the sign's post and some of the pubs visited en route are list around the border

1998. A 'happy chappy' morris dancing on his way to Southwell

1999. I can remember little of this year..... ...but I do remember that I had little time to spare and so a quick solution was used - ie monchrome printing onto green paper. We have the minster drawing once more, superimposed on a huge morris bell!

2000. A bit of a failure this one - serves me right for appropriating someone elses digital image. It shows the walkers and dancers from a previous year posing in front of the minster

2001. This one revived 1998's 'happy chappy' and shows him dancing toward the minster - symbolically appearing on a Stanley Kubrick style TMA1 from '2001 - A Space Odessey' - and with a stick (of course!) rather than handkerchiefs.

2002. The Green Man of Southwell. I was pleased with this. The image was originally very broad because this figure is carved beneath the bishop's seat in the minster choir (if memory serves me right). I therefore had to do a cylindrical distortion followed by a lens distortion to get the thing to look right. It took quite a lot of time to get the correct configuration

2003. I was very pleased with this badge, which proved very popular and features the minster's wonderful west window. The photo for this was taken on the 2002 Gate - in anticipation.

2004. This year I was at a bit of a loss for a subject. There had been two sad deaths among the Gate regulars and I was in something of a quandry as to how to deal with this. I finally chose a representation of the cross which is always carried as part of the procession and a simple design of more than usual religious significance.

2005. After 2004's sombre mood, I felt a complete change was in order. Looking back at previous badges a blue/green theme predominated, so I decided on orangey-brown - which some have interpreted as 'tooled leather'. :-)
A tankard also seemed appropriate to mirror the old quote from the 1530s about 'the ale - which was drunk at all times' during the procession. Lest this be seen as too irreligious I superimposed the Bramley Apple (ie the fruit - not just the pub) for which Southwell is famous. Therefore the sensitive may assume the tankard contains only apple juice :-)
Curiously a cross has appeared in the intertwining of the apple leaf stalks. This does NOT appear in the original CAD drawing - it only manifests itself upon printing or processing. Spooky eh?

2006. This was the year that everybody who wanted to be anybody went out and bought a Sat Nav system for their car. The badge therefore showed the minster in a segment of the first Ordnance Survey map - to redress the balance!

2007. This was the year that Nottingham City Council rebuilt the Old Market Square at vast expense - turning it into the bleak wasteland (with spurty fountains!) that it now is. Putting an image of the council house on the badge therefore seemed appropriate

2008. I cribbed the basic design for this from an earlier badge I had produced for Dolphin's Ring Meeting in 2004. I added the Dolphin heraldic 'supporters' and the wording relates to the sides 40th anniversary this year. The devices in the quartering are charged to reflect items on the gate more accurately such as the minster, morris kit, the Bramley apple and beer!

2009. Inspiration often comes at the last minute - against all my best intentions! This year was no exception; so I thought a bit about what the procession was all about and the idea of indicating where the Southwell pence came from was born. The red dots are meant to indicate some of the major towns and parishes within Nottinghamshire (no its not a map of the Isle of Man - it really is Nottinghamshire!). I was struck for the first time just how close to the centre of the county that Southwell actually is. Previously I had thought of it stuck in the back of beyond over in the south-eastern corner - but its not, it really is quite central.

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The central drawing was used for a publicity campaign for the Cranfleet Lock Action Group - which attempted (so far unsuccessfully) to get a pair of flood gates on the Trent navigation replaced by a conventional lock. Their closure in this drawing is therefore highly symbolic!

This is not my design - merely my representation of an earlier design which I redrew and digitised for the Dolphin Morrismen

This was the third Great Internet Get-together for the internet boating community . I organised it at the Soar Boating Club in Nottinghamshire. The design incorporates the clubs pennant superimposed on the cutweb logo

The fourth GIG at Stafford Boat Club incorporates that clubs pennant - again on the cutweb logo

Returning to Stafford BC required something a bit more adventurous

Returning to the Soar BC required something even more adventurous The organiser wanted something "a bit 2001-ish" so and my previous variation on the TMA1 theme for the 'Gate to Southwell 2001' was adapted.

Yup, back to Stafford! They always make us welcome so I went for something a bit more canal-trad in colour but based upon one of the bridge number plates which are peculiar to that canal - but retaining the Staffordshire Knot.

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BOOKS BADGES LOGOS Top of Page
	An early badge I designed for the Ashby Canal Association featuring their measham teapot logo
	Another early badge for a neighbours trip boat operation using a standard piece of clipart
	The first logo for the great internet boating community - otherwise known as the 'cutweb logo'. This was effectively designed 'by committee' internationally. The URL on this badge is now obsolete. For the full story go to http://www.canals.com/
	The badge for the offshoot of the above which formed its own AWCC afiliated boat club - The Cutweb Internet Boat Club
	Another boat club badge: for the Nottingham Yacht Club - to their own design. It is a paraody (for a sheep roast) of their own 'phoenix from the flames' logo.
	Another NYC parody - this time just the bottle was added!
	Yet another boat club offshoot!
	...and something a little more traditional for the Historic Narrow Boat Owners Club
	One for the local!
	1994. One of an annual series for the Dolphin Morris Men organised 'Gate to Southwell' . This is a twenty mile charity procession/pub crawl from Nottingham to the head of the diocese at Southwell Minster which takes place every summer in June. The procession originates with the founding of the minster and this annual event started over 500 years ago. This badge depicts the handing over of the 'Southwell Pence' which was a payment made from each of the Nottinghamshire parishes to pay for the minster's upkeep and which continues symbolically to this day.
	1995. Morris dancers were known to have entertained the walkers as early as 1530 and are depicted in this badge. The characters are 'stolen' from the famous 'Betley Window'
	1996. Another badge of entertainment en route - and more Betley window characters with the minster in the backgound. It isn't clear in this image but the black border contains a dotted white line to symbolise the roadway there
	1997. A simple, but effective, design - the date is on the sign's post and some of the pubs visited en route are list around the border
	1998. A 'happy chappy' morris dancing on his way to Southwell
	1999. I can remember little of this year..... ...but I do remember that I had little time to spare and so a quick solution was used - ie monchrome printing onto green paper. We have the minster drawing once more, superimposed on a huge morris bell!
	2000. A bit of a failure this one - serves me right for appropriating someone elses digital image. It shows the walkers and dancers from a previous year posing in front of the minster
	2001. This one revived 1998's 'happy chappy' and shows him dancing toward the minster - symbolically appearing on a Stanley Kubrick style TMA1 from '2001 - A Space Odessey' - and with a stick (of course!) rather than handkerchiefs.
	2002. The Green Man of Southwell. I was pleased with this. The image was originally very broad because this figure is carved beneath the bishop's seat in the minster choir (if memory serves me right). I therefore had to do a cylindrical distortion followed by a lens distortion to get the thing to look right. It took quite a lot of time to get the correct configuration
	2003. I was very pleased with this badge, which proved very popular and features the minster's wonderful west window. The photo for this was taken on the 2002 Gate - in anticipation.
	2004. This year I was at a bit of a loss for a subject. There had been two sad deaths among the Gate regulars and I was in something of a quandry as to how to deal with this. I finally chose a representation of the cross which is always carried as part of the procession and a simple design of more than usual religious significance.
	2005. After 2004's sombre mood, I felt a complete change was in order. Looking back at previous badges a blue/green theme predominated, so I decided on orangey-brown - which some have interpreted as 'tooled leather'. :-) A tankard also seemed appropriate to mirror the old quote from the 1530s about 'the ale - which was drunk at all times' during the procession. Lest this be seen as too irreligious I superimposed the Bramley Apple (ie the fruit - not just the pub) for which Southwell is famous. Therefore the sensitive may assume the tankard contains only apple juice :-) Curiously a cross has appeared in the intertwining of the apple leaf stalks. This does NOT appear in the original CAD drawing - it only manifests itself upon printing or processing. Spooky eh?
	2006. This was the year that everybody who wanted to be anybody went out and bought a Sat Nav system for their car. The badge therefore showed the minster in a segment of the first Ordnance Survey map - to redress the balance!
	2007. This was the year that Nottingham City Council rebuilt the Old Market Square at vast expense - turning it into the bleak wasteland (with spurty fountains!) that it now is. Putting an image of the council house on the badge therefore seemed appropriate
	2008. I cribbed the basic design for this from an earlier badge I had produced for Dolphin's Ring Meeting in 2004. I added the Dolphin heraldic 'supporters' and the wording relates to the sides 40th anniversary this year. The devices in the quartering are charged to reflect items on the gate more accurately such as the minster, morris kit, the Bramley apple and beer!
	2009. Inspiration often comes at the last minute - against all my best intentions! This year was no exception; so I thought a bit about what the procession was all about and the idea of indicating where the Southwell pence came from was born. The red dots are meant to indicate some of the major towns and parishes within Nottinghamshire (no its not a map of the Isle of Man - it really is Nottinghamshire!). I was struck for the first time just how close to the centre of the county that Southwell actually is. Previously I had thought of it stuck in the back of beyond over in the south-eastern corner - but its not, it really is quite central.

BOOKS BADGES LOGOS Top of Page
	The central drawing was used for a publicity campaign for the Cranfleet Lock Action Group - which attempted (so far unsuccessfully) to get a pair of flood gates on the Trent navigation replaced by a conventional lock. Their closure in this drawing is therefore highly symbolic!
	This is not my design - merely my representation of an earlier design which I redrew and digitised for the Dolphin Morrismen
	This was the third Great Internet Get-together for the internet boating community . I organised it at the Soar Boating Club in Nottinghamshire. The design incorporates the clubs pennant superimposed on the cutweb logo
	The fourth GIG at Stafford Boat Club incorporates that clubs pennant - again on the cutweb logo
	Returning to Stafford BC required something a bit more adventurous
	Returning to the Soar BC required something even more adventurous The organiser wanted something "a bit 2001-ish" so and my previous variation on the TMA1 theme for the 'Gate to Southwell 2001' was adapted.
	Yup, back to Stafford! They always make us welcome so I went for something a bit more canal-trad in colour but based upon one of the bridge number plates which are peculiar to that canal - but retaining the Staffordshire Knot.