A Westerly for £1...:

[Lightwave395]

For you Westerly fans, there's a Westerly 22 just listed on the local IOW website for £1:

https://www.wightbay.com/newport/boats/westerly-22-5781511/

 

[JumbleDuck]

For you Westerly fans, there's a Westerly 22 just listed on the local IOW website for £1:

https://www.wightbay.com/newport/boats/westerly-22-5781511/

The absence of any interior photographs triggers my spidey-senses.

 

[john_morris_uk]

For you Westerly fans, there's a Westerly 22 just listed on the local IOW website for £1:

https://www.wightbay.com/newport/boats/westerly-22-5781511/

£1? It says it's free! It's got an outboard too.

 

[john_morris_uk]

The absence of any interior photographs triggers my spidey-senses.

Think of it as acquiring a new family to sleep with.

 

[Daydream believer]

For you Westerly fans, there's a Westerly 22 just listed on the local IOW website for £1. /

Typical.--- Just because it is a Westerly the owner thinks it is worth that little bit extra due to the name

 

[JumbleDuck]

Think of it as acquiring a new family to sleep with.

Difficulty: Not in Norfolk.

 

[pvb]

"A good winter project" - for the next 10 winters!

 

[PhillM]

"A good winter project" - for the next 10 winters!

Run away, fast!

 

[Spyro]

Typical.--- Just because it is a Westerly the owner thinks it is worth that little bit extra due to the name

 

[lw395]

It's small enough that you could take it home and work on it.
Assuming it is basically sound, somebody could have a lot of fun with this very cheaply.
Think basic camping afloat.

2 years of neglect and many boats would look just as bad.
It might be worth buying it, cleaning it up and taking a view.

 

[pvb]

It's small enough that you could take it home and work on it.

What might that cost? It'd need to be craned out of the yard, put on a hired trailer, and presumably craned off at home. Then there's the cost of getting it back to the water...

 

[AndrewL]

I recognise that boat, it is in the Odessa Boat yard in Newport. My boat has been next to it over several winters, so I've seen it a lot. It has been there at least 4 years and I think probably much longer.

It is a wreck, fit for sinking or crushing only.

If I recall correctly, one of the turnbuckles is bent, I suspect the mast came down in a not entirely controlled fashion.

 

[doug748]

It's small enough that you could take it home and work on it.
Assuming it is basically sound, somebody could have a lot of fun with this very cheaply.
Think basic camping afloat.

2 years of neglect and many boats would look just as bad.
It might be worth buying it, cleaning it up and taking a view.

Someone will be along in a bit to tell us it would cost 25 grand to do and it's not "economically viable". As if any boat buying was "economically viable".

The real problem is that its a perfect boat for an enthusiastic youngster
- but we don't have enough enthusiastic youngsters to go around

 

[pvb]

Someone will be along in a bit to tell us it would cost 25 grand to do and it's not "economically viable". As if any boat buying was "economically viable".

The real problem is that its a perfect boat for an enthusiastic youngster
- but we don't have enough enthusiastic youngsters to go around

You seem to live in a parallel universe, oblivious to the realities of life today. The boat is obviously a wreck, as AndrewL has confirmed. And it's ugly too. Enthusiastic youngsters don't spend their evenings making baggywrinkle any more...

 

[lw395]

Someone will be along in a bit to tell us it would cost 25 grand to do and it's not "economically viable". As if any boat buying was "economically viable".

The real problem is that its a perfect boat for an enthusiastic youngster
- but we don't have enough enthusiastic youngsters to go around

I suspect 'young' in the context of a Westerly means 'not yet eligible for a bus pass'.

When you add up the cost of getting it afloat and usable, there are probably cheaper offers around.

 

[jordanbasset]

"A good winter project" - for the next 10 winters!

I think they are referring to a Game of Thrones winter

 

[GTom]

I think it's way overpriced...

I may judge the appearance wrong but I have the feeling she's been sunk.

Someone will be along in a bit to tell us it would cost 25 grand to do and it's not "economically viable". As if any boat buying was "economically viable".

The real problem is that its a perfect boat for an enthusiastic youngster
- but we don't have enough enthusiastic youngsters to go around

Obviously if she was cpt. Blackbeard's Adventure, many would jump and restore. This is just one of the thousands of plastic boats, which needs likely more money and definitely much more working time than building a new boat from scratch.

 

[burgundyben]

If anyone wants me to go have a look I'm nearby.

 

[doug748]

.......... Enthusiastic youngsters don't spend their evenings making baggywrinkle any more...

Quite, that was my point.

By the time you have bought new sails and an Eberspacher you are in deep.

 

[NotBirdseye]

I suspect 'young' in the context of a Westerly means 'not yet eligible for a bus pass'.

When you add up the cost of getting it afloat and usable, there are probably cheaper offers around.

I dispute that! (insert protest.gif) Without confirming or denying my age I'm nowhere near eligible for a bus pass and I'm considering a Westerly Fulmar/Sadler.

I don't doubt it'd be an interesting project for someone who knows what they're doing with Fibreglass, but I also don't doubt it'd probably be more than it's worth (depending on many factors obviously).