Cast iron keel fitting adaptor

At the moment I'm advertising her at a nominal price, £100, just as an encouragement for any takers to collect, or I might deliver at cost. I have boxes of original and other rigging and boat fittings which I could sell on ebay for a few hundred I guess, but am offering those with the hull. The gearbox I can sell for my current outlay. If no takers then it's 50/50 for firewood or finish the hull at least.
 
fisherman said:
At the moment I'm advertising her at a nominal price, £100, just as an encouragement for any takers to collect, or I might deliver at cost. I have boxes of original and other rigging and boat fittings which I could sell on ebay for a few hundred I guess, but am offering those with the hull. The gearbox I can sell for my current outlay. If no takers then it's 50/50 for firewood or finish the hull at least.
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Where's the ad. fisherman, you must be allowed to tell us surely?
 
So I did a detailed audit and found a number of planks with rot, more than initially evident, including both garboards with a thin sound skin but soft inside. If I had to pay I would not have taken her on, but took a chance. Cut her up. Found many more hidden faults in the process: I will shift the fittings on ebay...or is their a boat jumble anywhere?
Lots of varnished wood blocks, original pump, bronze skin fittings, bronze shroud plates, fairleads, cleats, mast collars, roller reefing gear, roller jib gear, horse, shaft, gearbox....and the rudder which is ply.
If she was complete and ready rigged I would have given her a GRP skin and got a few years.
 
fisherman said:
One problem with my old boat is fitting a cast iron keel, if I can find one, bolts will not align with current holes. What if I make an adaptor plate? Say, 12mm steel, bolts up into the boat and down into the keel?
I have yet to get a quote from Irons Bros, but am told to expect expensive and difficult to fit.
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Alec Rose converted a Ships Lifeboat for his first sailboat.

IIRC, for the keel he used a length of steel "H" section girder. That was bolted through the wooden keel, then boxed with marine ply and filled with concrete in the void.

Worth a punt?

Certainly a DIY possibility ?
 
fisherman said:
So I did a detailed audit and found a number of planks with rot, more than initially evident, including both garboards with a thin sound skin but soft inside. If I had to pay I would not have taken her on, but took a chance. Cut her up. Found many more hidden faults in the process: I will shift the fittings on ebay...or is their a boat jumble anywhere?
Lots of varnished wood blocks, original pump, bronze skin fittings, bronze shroud plates, fairleads, cleats, mast collars, roller reefing gear, roller jib gear, horse, shaft, gearbox....and the rudder which is ply.
If she was complete and ready rigged I would have given her a GRP skin and got a few years.
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I think you may have missed those three little words.....
 
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