Dylan Centaur Boat Porn

No point in dealing with the previous owner about the boat as he is no longer able to sell it with clear title although he could still sell any bits not covered by the lien. If you bought the boat in the auction you would get clear title. The owner is unlikely to show any interest as to regain title he would have to pay the outstanding debt.
 
Tranona said:
No point in dealing with the previous owner about the boat as he is no longer able to sell it with clear title although he could still sell any bits not covered by the lien. If you bought the boat in the auction you would get clear title. The owner is unlikely to show any interest as to regain title he would have to pay the outstanding debt.
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Indeed, and if he has any sense he will have sold it to a bloke in the pub five years ago.
 
Don't get me wrong. I'm a great admirer of the Westerly Centaur, but I'm astounded at how slow they are.
I was looking at a list of PHRF ratings < http://offshore.ussailing.org/Assets/Offshore/PHRF/High+Low+Mean+PHRF+Handicaps.pdf >
and was amazed to see that a West Wight Potter 19 (PHRF 270) is rated 21 seconds per mile faster than a Westerly Centaur (PHRF 291).
Of course, a Westerly Centaur is probably a greyhound compared to a Mirror Offshore.
 
interloper said:
Don't get me wrong. I'm a great admirer of the Westerly Centaur, but I'm astounded at how slow they are.
I was looking at a list of PHRF ratings < http://offshore.ussailing.org/Assets/Offshore/PHRF/High+Low+Mean+PHRF+Handicaps.pdf >
and was amazed to see that a West Wight Potter 19 (PHRF 270) is rated 21 seconds per mile faster than a Westerly Centaur (PHRF 291).
Of course, a Westerly Centaur is probably a greyhound compared to a Mirror Offshore.
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The yardstick is for racing so allows for poor pointing ability. I have found that if I settle fro a close reach and forget about trying to go close hauled I can make good progress, but I suppose all boats go well down hill.
My shed looks better than those pics, and that's a shed.
 
TSB240 said:
I dont think they are serious about trying to get £9000 grand recovered. I would reckon they will settle for whatever anyone offers plus a new owner to start paying dues or clear the"project wreck off site.

In my experience this is the same procedure that sailing clubs go through to clear the wrecks.
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Not in the boatyard I use, they use a chain saw......!
 
speed sweepstake

interloper said:
Don't get me wrong. I'm a great admirer of the Westerly Centaur, but I'm astounded at how slow they are.
I was looking at a list of PHRF ratings < http://offshore.ussailing.org/Assets/Offshore/PHRF/High+Low+Mean+PHRF+Handicaps.pdf >
and was amazed to see that a West Wight Potter 19 (PHRF 270) is rated 21 seconds per mile faster than a Westerly Centaur (PHRF 291).
Of course, a Westerly Centaur is probably a greyhound compared to a Mirror Offshore.
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In May I am planning to sail direct from the Medway to Anstruther without stopping

crew of three - flying all the canvas we can muster

pushing the old dear around the clock

I was thinking of running a sweepstake on this forum

the prize will be a lovely pair of "flinks" for the winner

anyone want to make a guess as to how long it will take us?



I have enquired about this one

http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/yachts/beeva-westerly-centaur-RUD016

the broker says it is a firm £3,000

also asked about this one

http://www.boatshop24.co.uk/advert/westerly-centaur-wroxham/41267754

no response as yet

chasing the Dinorwick wreck

I have three months to find the boat or pull the plug

of course all plans are prone to falling apart and I have yet to find the boat -

Dylan
 
Interloper,

you don't really think a West Wight Potter could see off a Centaur ?!

There have been a rash of silly PY ratings lately, but as far as I can make out it's with boats which don't normally race, so results don't go to the RYA for them to calculate ratings.

However, how they arrive at some PY's is a mystery, certainly no basis in fact !
 
3k firm for one with a knackered engine or 3.5k for a runner. Hmmm, tough choice!

Bet you'd get the 2nd one for £2750 and you could save on the chainsaw fuel too...
 
Hmmm, all but the first pic come out really fuzzy on my PC. Pinch of salt is a good idea, however the water would need to be up a long way to knacker the engine I'd guess. Encouraging that the cushions are off the boat too...
 
The slow death of Ana Sira

I have downloaded steves pix of the Port Dinorwic wreckand are herre in a more digestable size

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/scuttlebutt/port-dinorwic-centaur/

to re-iterate she, and a few other yachts will be disposed of through ebay

end of feb

I enquired and got this email from some-one called Gareth Cleaver at

http://www.york-design.co.uk/

Hi Dylan - this boat, along with half a dozen others will be put on e-bay on 28th February. We have to conduct an open sale. If you wish to pursue this you are welcome to make a bid for her on ebay.
Thanks for your interest.
Regards


Roger of this parish says

ust looked at those pictures of the blue one posted on YBW.com. Having found the majority of the internal ply structure on mine to be rotten i'd take a screwdriver and knife to check for rot in the half bulkheads and bearers that the internal moulding sits on.

Personally speaking I wouldn't touch that Blue one with a barge pole unless i was paid to take it away (in the region of a grand,) its just not worth it knowing the damage that that volume of water can do. Although its interesting to see the keel joints are 100% watertight, i just dont know why you'd let a boat get to that state of disrepair.

Theres better boats out there that are less aggro.

can anyone go and take some better pictures of the keel fastenings and poke around the bottom of that bulkhead

It would be good to know if that timber is beyond salvation

the sails will be in bad nick after five years exposed to the weather

I am hoping that something better will turn up

but it would not do any harm to learn a bit more
 
Barnac1e said:
+1 !!!
I stop opening threads like this because of that, scrolling across the screen to read the following text is a pain.
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I was going to reply to say that your monitor must be really tiny - but then I discovered that my browser is automatically shrinking the images to fit whatever width I drag the window to. Seems like a good approach.

Pete
 
The fact that the keel joints don't leak when compressed by the weight of the hull doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be tight when dangling under their own weight.

Sorry, Dylan, but I wouldn't touch this one with a bargepole, save possibly as a supply of spare parts. There is a monstrous amount of work to be one to get it to even basic standards, even if the structural bulkhead isn't rotten.
 
prv said:
I was going to reply to say that your monitor must be really tiny - but then I discovered that my browser is automatically shrinking the images to fit whatever width I drag the
window to. Seems like a good approach.
Pete
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No Pete, I have a huge monitor, but on the boat with a netbook it is far, far worse. I too had (I think) the browser re-sizing before the forum software upgrade, then it all went bonkers with these oversized photos.
Thankfully, most re-size their images before posting - saves bandwidth for all.
It may be Firefox, there was a coincident upgrade - well many really - at about the same time, so I do not know what to blame, although IE 9 & 10 have the same effect with Win7.
But it does seem logical for ybw to automatically re-size to something like 800-1000 pixels wide to save on their own storage space. As you point out, the useful solution would be for the browser to have that function.
 
Barnac1e said:
No Pete, I have a huge monitor, but on the boat with a netbook it is far, far worse. I too had (I think) the browser re-sizing before the forum software upgrade, then it all went bonkers with these oversized photos.
Thankfully, most re-size their images before posting - saves bandwidth for all.
It may be Firefox, there was a coincident upgrade - well many really - at about the same time, so I do not know what to blame, although IE 9 & 10 have the same effect with Win7.
But it does seem logical for ybw to automatically re-size to something like 800-1000 pixels wide to save on their own storage space. As you point out, the useful solution would be for the browser to have that function.
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re-sized images here

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/scuttlebutt/port-dinorwic-centaur/

Dylan

PS - I am so relieved that Chinita and the "Save a Centaur from Dylan Society" have agreed to buy this one for whatever it fetches and move it to their museum of immobile wrecks in the Solent

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/blogs/an-apology/
 
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