Fancy building a boat ?

[oldgit]

boat moulds for sale, start a business, or build one for your self. | eBay
Should keep you out from under the wifes feet for a while.
A cautionary tale.
A while ago bought a home built. boat. The previous owner, a somewhat persistant chap spent 20 odd years putting it together, spent 3 times the money that it would have cost to buy it off the shelf and had to sell it for tiny fraction of the money spent on it. Total use amounted to 50 hours.
All the thousands ? of hours taken to work on it of course counted for nothing.

 

[PCUK]

Apart from the pleasure and satisfaction that is priceless.

 

[Bouba]

Everybody on the forum can build a part of a boat and when isolation ends we can put it together

 

[LittleSister]

It's even more enticing, given that the vendor says 'i can assist with tuistion'!

 

[Seashoreman]

If you want to continue with the comedy check out this sellers feedback. Everything he has sold seems to be either £1000 or £500.
This looks decidedly odd to me. A sailing tender for £500, car parts for £500. How can people get away with such false feedback?
Maybe they get a friend (?) to leave it on non-existent goods.
I haven't looked at location, is there such a place?

 

[Reel Time]

I've been following this guy on YouTube One Man and His Boat. Some folks might find his build project interesting. One Man And His Boat

 

[Croftie]

If you want to continue with the comedy check out this sellers feedback. Everything he has sold seems to be either £1000 or £500.

And at a very quick look 20+ out of the last 25 feedbacks are only from 3 people

 

[James L]

I've been following this guy on YouTube One Man and His Boat. Some folks might find his build project interesting. One Man And His Boat

I guess his experience building a 21 foot boat destroyed the ideas he had of building a 48 footer.

 

[Rappey]

I bought a rowing boat mould really cheap. I then made the mould into the desired rowing boat ?

 

[oldgit]

Would be very interested in the history of the mouldings . Somebody must have designed them and presumably there will a few "floating" around somewhere .
Quite common in the past for a commercial builder or private individual to buy a hull from Aquafibre or whoever and then fit it out.
Early Brooms and some early Fairlines and Princess ? were also built on a hull designed by John Bennett and moulded in Norfolk.
"My" Aquafibre Transocean 37 bought as kit from Herbert Woods.

The hull in the front garden of of the first owner. He moved home 3 times and the boat went with him each time.

What his wife said on its arrival is unrecorded. !
The finished product on it way back up to Norfolk in 2018 with a new owner approximately 45 years after it left the mould.
Photo courtesy of a forumite somewhere off Ipswich.