Another Ebay Bargain? ;)

simon barefoot said:
He's advertising a few on that site. How on Earth does someone end up with a yard full of boats like that?
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They offer boat storage to others, and reclaim and sell the boats when those others disappear and stop paying?

My yard has a fair crop of abandoned boats propped up round the outside, with notices telling the owner that £x,000 in yard fees is owed and inviting others to submit bids to buy the boat. No suggestion that the latter ought to equal the former - in many cases the outstanding fee is way more than the boat would ever be worth.

Pete
 
Hows this one for a real punt, with a nice little cuddy too?
http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/for-sale-10ft-dory-fishing-boat-with-25hp-engine/94909656
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prv said:
They offer boat storage to others, and reclaim and sell the boats when those others disappear and stop paying?

My yard has a fair crop of abandoned boats propped up round the outside, with notices telling the owner that £x,000 in yard fees is owed and inviting others to submit bids to buy the boat. No suggestion that the latter ought to equal the former - in many cases the outstanding fee is way more than the boat would ever be worth.

Pete
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Old boats just get abandoned. Owners loose interest in restoration projects and just walk away.

Quite a number around the yard I use although the new yard owner has now
dealt with most of them. Some broken up, some found new owners.
 
Restoration

As said if it is plywood then it is for the fire. If it is fibreglass old and solid then it might be a good beginning.
However of course you might end up with a great hulk of boat in your own yard that is hard to get rid of.
If it is f/g then it could be a better project than an initial build but only just. olewill Feeling safe from 10000 miles away but a sucker for old boats.
 
It's definitely GRP, but likely to be done with a chopper gun (quite a lot of Dawncraft were), so may or may not be in a suitable condition for restoration.

If the hull's not falling apart, then it'd be possible to refit it as a liveaboard or cheap cruiser on the canals, and I'd guess that somebody will take it on sooner or later).
 
What I like about it is the way it grows from 26 feet in the title to 32 feet in the text. I wonder how long it will take to grow to 40 feet?
 
I can't see any good ending for the boat in the original post; I suppose after a really thorough clean by pressure spray she might be worth using as an inland cruiser.

However I can think of one classic sailing boat, a rather good grp model with a transatlantic record, which was found abandoned in a marina and sold just to clear the berthing debts...

That boat was quickly restored to very spick & span condition; the buyer was a good sailor and knew a good boat when he saw one, but knew nothing about the class, so was a bit flabberghasted when I gave him various magazine cuttings about her trip to the Azores & sailing reviews...the boat is doing extremely well now, having had a couple of appreciative & very experienced owners since.

At my club, a Leisure 17, a Hunter Tracer lift keel dayboat and several very good sailing dinghies were sold for peanuts recently as 'disposals' after they were left abandoned or the owners had died and the relatives couldn't be bothered.

So it's worth keeping an eye out in marinas & boatyards, clubs etc...
 
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