Breathing new life into old boats

petem

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One hell of a labour of love. I seem to remember from a magazine article on her that the restoration started in Majorca, then moved to Marseille - at which point the owner became so frustrated that he went so far as to get a quote for pulling out the newly installed motors and then having her towed out to sea to be scuttled - only for it to be pointed out to him that you couldn't do that sort of thing these days. It then got taken to a yard on the Orwell to be finished off. I doff my cap to the man for his perseverance and the depth of his pockets...
 
petem said:
Apropros not a lot but this caught my eye the other day as a very tasteful refurb of an older boat:

http://www.boats.co.uk/boats-for-sale/princess-440-1319

Does anyone know what carpet they've used (see http://eby.rightboatexpert.com/api/images/89595/1010x1010)?

I've no connection to BCU or the Barke Bros but it struck me that this could make someone a very comfortable cruiser for not a lot over £100k.

Should anyone speak to Nick, ask him if he'd take £60k for it.

Pete
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Pete, you cannot equate the age of boats in the same way as we do cars! That is not an old boat, in fact positively new compared to mine!
 
Very nice boat especially with the relatively bombproof Cat 3208 engines. Agree that its not an old boat at all. In fact it could almost pass muster as a modern Princess. The 440 was one of Princess' best boats with an excellent hull and 3 good cabins below. Anyone in the market for a £100k flybridge boat would do well to look at this one
 
+1,
ANYbody looking for a 15m flybridge should have a look at this one,
one more proove (re also the that Jez found) that with a good search some really nice older boats can be found
 
Medskipper said:
That is a real shame, not just a bit of water damage! That looks like it completely sunk, even at 50k there is a huge amount to be spent on it to get it back to usable condition!
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It is amazing how optimistically priced some of these water and fire damaged boats on eBay are. I would have thought £10k is nearer the mark
 
jfm said:
I think it should be made clear that the pristine boat linked to in the first post is not the same boat as the water damaged one in #9 above
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Absolutely, but I do wonder if BCU selling salvaged boats does their (otherwise good) image any good? I don't see many 'damaged repairable' cars round the back of my local Mercedes franchise.
 
petem said:
Absolutely, but I do wonder if BCU selling salvaged boats does their (otherwise good) image any good? I don't see many 'damaged repairable' cars round the back of my local Mercedes franchise.
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Sneaky. I see its listed under Essex Boatyards rather than BCU and the tel nos are different. Well they're in business to make money like the rest of us
 
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