DF Fisher

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We have in our village a 16' clinker built oary boat (DF Fisher) about 100 years old. I think judging by her lines that she was originally a 'loch' boat. She has been here for many years. She is owned by a local lobster fisherman.
Can anybody put me onto a source of funding for her (sorely needed) restoration?
I am in SW Scotland.
Cheers, Dave

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[Peterduck]

Most of us who restore boats look at our bank account and decide what we can do without in order to get this boat restored. I wish you luck with trying to find someone else to pay for it; I wish that I could have found someone else to pay the thousands of dollars that I have sunk into my old ketch over the last 12 years!
Peter.

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[Casey]

Why not get a team of two or three enthusiasts together and acquire the skills needed to restore her? The materials needed would not be that expensive and acquiring the knowledge is not rocket science. Harness the knowledge that is in this forum, use common sense and the local library, add the tools which most have in their shed and you have a restoration team. Another wonderful source of knowledge is your local sailing club. There is many a hoary old gent who remembers owning and maintaining a wooden boat.

I am coming to the end of my own project (I hope!) and have found it frustrating, depressing (sometimes) but overall incredibly satisfying, in particular sailing down the Solent with friends and family in a boat I have saved from the knackers yard!

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[Peterduck]

Yes, Casey, it is all of that [ie, frustrating depressing, etc.] but when I go out sailing and I get calls from other passing plastic yachts of "Beautiful Boat!", I begin to feel that I haven't been totally wasting my time. This is just as well, because the other day I found a Termite nest with dead termites under my starboard caprail. I don't think that they liked the Jarrah caprail. It was still depressing. It's bad enough to have to cope with my boat trying to return to the environment, with out having local insects helping it.
Peter.

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