Don't miss out on this!

For a steel boat, I'll add a cylinder of acetylene and some oxygen, but only because the scrap may be worth a bit ?

Even so, odds of coming out on top if you cost your labour? Approximately nil.

For all my cynicism, I'm glad there are people who don't have enough sense to run away from projects, and then even less sense because they don't walk away when they find out what's actually involved. Leo and Tally Ho, amongst others, you're mad, but I salute you.
 
100£ per ton scrap value ,, 8 ton , 800 minus 200 exps, 500£ and a free berth ( for how long ) profit for a weeks cutting up scrap ,, no thank you ,, and it would be such a shame .
 
Some of us enjoy a project like that. It's a way to own a decent sized boat without having to take on a large loan. Is it any different to the many that restore rusty old cars?
It's not about making a profit. It's the enjoyment and experience that can be had doing a project and ending up with a boat where the owner knows and understand every part of it which is one of the most important skills to have when sailing distances.
Parts can be sourced over time and bargains can be found with patience.
Certainly not for everyone but I think the price is a little much compared to other steel boats I have seen.
 
Mark-1 said:
Free berth means free ownership of a berth IMHO.

Like you I suspect they're being a bit crafty and free berth will not mean ownership of a berth.
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Correct.

The River Nith Navigation Trust is defunct, its final member having died in (I think) the 1950s. Since it was set up to appoint its own members, there is now no way to revive it, save for a private bill at Holyrood. Some time ago a group of locals, let by Roy Kerr, set up the Port of Dumfries Development Group to get things moving again. They put a couple of visitor moorings at Glencaple, buoyed the entrance seasonally and got a JCB in to dig out Kingholm Quay, which was almost entirely filled with silt. I gather that was a bit unofficial, since the Nith Navigation Commissioners own the quay, but since there hasn't been a Nith Navigation Commissioner for many years, nobody cared. Since then, it all seems to have stalled. The project website is dead (www.nith-navigation.co.uk) and Roy Kerr now seems mainly occupied with his tall ship, La Malouine, which was based at Kingholm for a while but is now at Palnackie on the Urr.

So there is no charge for mooring there, though I think there is a shared cost arrangement for use of the pontoon with the PDDG fitted. In that sense this boat does have a free mooring, but it's not one that can be sold for anyone else and if this boat went out for a sea trial and someone else took the spot, tough.
 
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dunedin said:
I remember seeing her at Kingholm Quay many times 15 years or so back. She looked then to have been abandoned part built.

I wonder, did the boat ever go to sea? Or is it another large steel project abandoned multiple times?
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one photo in the advert suggests the boat did go near or to the sea, but presumably before you saw here at Kingholm Quay I hope she does find a buyer. Hull looks in OK nick considering :

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Large steel saliing boat has been lying in Donaghadee for quite a few years. He pays his fees (not always promptly I hear) but you can see it is on its way out. Sad to see it. Must have cost a considerable sum to enable it to decline.
 
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