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...this one was fishing until very recently, has just fallen foul of regs imposed by what has been described as the marine stasi, the MCA. It's likely just a cost/benefit issue. The licence constitutes most of the value and will have been sold or at least separated and retained.
I worked on this one years ago. It was owned by the shellfish merchants in Newlyn for many years and well looked after then. It has lots of electronics and, maybe a sound working engine although I haven't seen the boat for a while and am only guessing. Of course 1958 wood is a big nono for some.
The red one

Boat Disposal: responsible and accessible

The MCA are patrolling the pontoons in Newlyn and will challenge anything they fancy even if the boat was certificated last week. Should you be unlucky enough to be towed in by the RNLI they are straight on board looking for lack of maintenance or some other excuse to blame the owner. I'm all for safe practice, but sh!t happens.
 
There are a few boats on that site that should have met a chainsaw decades ago. Why is there no easy way of disposing of old boats?
 
Loving the pics of the rescued corribiee mk2.
I’m loving mine …. Yep she needs work but she does sail so very beautifully.
 
fisherman said:
The MCA are patrolling the pontoons in Newlyn and will challenge anything they fancy even if the boat was certificated last week. Should you be unlucky enough to be towed in by the RNLI they are straight on board looking for lack of maintenance or some other excuse to blame the owner. I'm all for safe practice, but sh!t happens.
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The unforeseen consequence of this is fishermen are avoiding calling the CG for help, I'm told. If the MCA find an issue you can be impounded (on top of your breakdown)
 
Concerto said:
This article might be worth reading about boat disposal round the world.
End game: What next for the end-of-life boat sector? - Marine Industry News
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“the last owner of an end-of-life boat tends to have the least money and are therefore the weakest link in the chain with the biggest burden of disposal.”

That's the crux of the issue, isn't it. For the future, a recyclable form of GRP is great, but it doesn't solve today's problem. A levy on new boats might help, or a small fee added to the cost of a mooring. There are 5000 pleasure boats in Portsmouth Harbour. If they all pay a tenner a year, that would provide a fund to dispose of the dozen or so a year that need to go to the great marina in the sky.
 
To be fair as we understand itthe French fleet was rebuilt quickly after the war, oak on oak, iron nails, and expected to last 25 years. In the UK there was no such programme so we bought all their old boats as they upgraded, and many of them sank. That may well be due to lack of maintenance. There are a few clinging on, but they need constant attention, and the company that owned this one did that. Also the French crabbers had wet wells with all that entails, this one still has, I think.
If I wanted an ex MFV I would look to Scotland.
 
dgadee said:
Grp boats have potentially very long lives. If, after upgrading, they had a decent value you would not need to dump them. It's not the boat that is the problem, just the economics of a throwaway society.
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I'm always looking at decrepit GRP hulls, up to 15ft or so. There is practically nothing that can't be saved, but you have to realise there's no chemical bond to old GRP, has to be mechanical. In my case it's the first sniff of GRP dust as the grinding back starts that I hate. Doing my old IP12 at the moment. Just fitting a Thermhex deck, one 2500 x 1200 x 15mm sheet has cost over £100 and it's not in yet. Add thwarts, gunnels, the cost/benefit isn't there for resale, OK if you just want a decent boat to use.
 
fisherman said:
I'm always looking at decrepit GRP hulls, up to 15ft or so. There is practically nothing that can't be saved, but you have to realise there's no chemical bond to old GRP, has to be mechanical. In my case it's the first sniff of GRP dust as the grinding back starts that I hate. Doing my old IP12 at the moment. Just fitting a Thermhex deck, one 2500 x 1200 x 15mm sheet has cost over £100 and it's not in yet. Add thwarts, gunnels, the cost/benefit isn't there for resale, OK if you just want a decent boat to use.
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Don't know about small boats, but I presume the value was always in class racing? If there is no class racing not so many purchasers. Flying 15s (I used to race these) had a class for older boats which made them more desireable.

PS: Never heard of that Thermhex - looks very useful for flat panels instead of marine ply. £100 looks ok to me in comparison with marine ply cost.
 
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dgadee said:
Don't know about small boats, but I presume the value was always in class racing? If there is no class racing not so many purchasers. Flying 15s (I used to race these) had a class for older boats which made them more desireable.

PS: Never heard of that Thermhex - looks very useful for flat panels instead of marine ply. £100 looks ok to me in comparison with marine ply cost.
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Thermhex is Nidaplast by another name. 15mm £60 a sheet. 1 x 450gm below, 2 on top, as rigid as 18mm ply. You can bend it all ways and after the overcoat it's rigid.
 
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