Dunkirk Little ships at Sunbury 04/09/2011 Lots of pictures .

[No Regrets]

The advantage with all of these wooden boats is that they can all be restored quite easily although of course it costs. L'Orage for example was in a quite bad state before the current owners had her restored.

'Quite easily'

'although of course it costs...'


Err, surely not so simple then!

 

[teddington_lock]

I always thought that if you owned a DLS , but had no money you could apply to the Association to pay to have it renovated ?

The caveat being that the Association own it afterwards ?

 

[jecuk]

There is the Dunkirk Little Ships Restoration Trust which will take over 'at risk' boats. It is separate as a charity but obviously is quite closely linked to the Association. They can restore and then try to sell boats back in a restored state.

 

[Captain Coochie]

Have they got any little ones they want to leave on a carpenters drive way for a refurb ?

 

[teddington_lock]

Why ? do you know one ?

 

[Captain Coochie]

www.jfcarpentry.co.uk . I think i could give a little ship some lovin .

 

[stuhaynes]

Great pictures. I wish I could get our boat that well restored

 

[jecuk]

Have they got any little ones they want to leave on a carpenters drive way for a refurb ?

I don't know exactly how they choose it but I can certainly pass your interest along.

 

[Captain Coochie]

Thats very kind of you .
I had a quick look online today to see if smaller boats ( that i could trailor ) where involved and there was loads of them .
Amazing to think that the smaller runabouts , and the like where towed over and then went in to take the people back to the bigger boats .
I was chatting to a bloke at the lock while taking the pictures and he said they dont make boats like that anymore . We both said they dont make the blokes that took them over there any more either .We agreed that a hurty leg was good enough to get out of going
Anyway they had bigger balls than me so the least i can do is restore one of the boats

 

[duesouth68]

Dunkirk Little Ships

What is the chap doing in the water in the lock ?

 

[ADLS]

www.jfcarpentry.co.uk . I think i could give a little ship some lovin .

Sold Lazy Days after the return 2010, had I known you were a chippy I could have swapped her for a house set of new window frames.
Still the cash came in handy and now theres no money going out for the great expense of keeping em shipshape.