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Paddingtonbear

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Hello all
I currently have an oldish but good quality inflatable about 2.8m and an air cooled 3.3 2 stroke Yamaha. As my wooden boat has the potential to be considered a classic I would dearly love a clinker dinghy about 8'6" long but they appear to be mental money ( rotten ones to put in the garden £1500!!!) I have seen a 'clinker' style dinghy with marine ply planks which seems niceish but look a bit ersatz but I was wondering whether a 'planked' plastic or fiberglass boat would somehow be more honest. I have seen several of these for sale, one of which is new, for reasonable sensible money £600-£800 both with trailers but they are both nearly 10' long and this might be a little long to put behind a 33' motorboat with a 4D engine. Any thoughts or offers of dinghies :)
 

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Slightly smaller (8' or so) GRP clinker would be a good choice. 10' tend to be heavy. You don't say how you would want to use it as that has a big influence over choice. Clinker ply is a good choice if it is well finished. Much lighter than GRP or real clinker.
 

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My first choice would be an 8'6" proper old clinker dinghy but I cannot/wont afford one. What ever I get will be used to get to my swinging mooring, up the pub and generally for doing a bit of exploring. I shall be mooring at Walton on the Naze and mud plugging around the Thames Estuary and East Coast. It just seemed to me that a slightly bigger boat - 9'8" is both readily available and much better value. Ideally any purchase should compliment Little Ship. I shall and post the details of the marine ply planked boat for comment.
 

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Yes I had seriously contemplated this after watching some of our 'friends' across the 'pond' doing stitch and glue. However it looks like around a grand done as I would want it to be 8'6" and I was hoping to get a proper dinghy for less than that. I am still interested in one that is advertised on Gumtree but I thought it was dear at £550 but I was obviously wrong. I will try and post the advert for comment. I also had a terrible problem with lack of confidence and am extreme fearful that I will balls it up and therefore do my money big time.
 

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Yes I had seriously contemplated this after watching some of our 'friends' across the 'pond' doing stitch and glue. However it looks like around a grand done as I would want it to be 8'6" and I was hoping to get a proper dinghy for less than that. I am still interested in one that is advertised on Gumtree but I thought it was dear at £550 but I was obviously wrong. I will try and post the advert for comment. I also had a terrible problem with lack of confidence and am extreme fearful that I will balls it up and therefore do my money big time.

I did a stick and glue some years ago, and I am hopeless at DIY - so somehow I managed it. Providing the instructions are good, and all the wood pre-cut and labelled, its not too bad, and immense satisfaction at the end...
 

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Hope you have better luck than I have had. Spoke with the vendor initially and have tried to contact him 4 times since to arrange to pay and pick it up and have had no luck. It has been for sale for over an month, small wonder I suppose. I have given up on him now. I somewhere have got details of a smashing proper clinker dinghy down your way Salcombe I think. I thought it looked pretty reasonable but a bit far for me although I was tempted. I will look it up and post it. We should all try and work together as it seems that these things are rareish and seemingly mental money in most cases.
 

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Will probably leak if it has been out of the water for some time. Advantage of clinker epoxy ply is that you can dry store.
 

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almost every time I have phoned after a advert on gumtree it has not bean answered or they answer and say its bean sold so I think it has already sold and are not answering un known numbers it seam people can be bothered to take the advert down once sold
 
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