Folkboat for rescue

[PhillM]

Trigger's broom comes to mind!

Ah yes, I think I've got one of those.

I tend to agree with the majority about the time, cost and overall worthwhile-ness (is that a word?) of this particular project.

Its not as if there are not loads of other folkboats about.

One tends to wonder why exactly this one was allowed to get into this state in the first place because before she did, she was easily salable. Now, as ebay has proved, they cannot even give her away.

 

[Kukri]

From memory, the iron keel on a Folkboat is one ton, same as a Dragon, so there is about three hundred pounds there.

 

[jamie N]

From memory, the iron keel on a Folkboat is one ton, same as a Dragon, so there is about three hundred pounds there.

Great minds think alike...! I was quoted slightly less than that though

 

[chinita]

Should cover about 50% of the crane and truck costs!

So then you will end up with a boat with no keel, but at least she will be in the place where you want her. Then you can flash up the chainsaw and keep toasty warm for the winter. :encouragement:

 

[NormanS]

Trigger's broom comes to mind!

Is that something similar to my grandfather's hammer? Two new heads, and three new shafts!

 

[zikzik]

Ah yes, I think I've got one of those.

I tend to agree with the majority about the time, cost and overall worthwhile-ness (is that a word?) of this particular project.

Its not as if there are not loads of other folkboats about. ....

I also have one. I bought a mirror dinghy off ebay a year or so ago. I only wanted the trailer for another craft, but taking the trailer was conditional that I took the dinghy. When I got her home, my romantic old neighbour looked at the rotted out bow, where she had been stored upside down into the ground, and said 'we can repair that, you can't turn a wooden boat that floats into firewood, its sacrilege'. So we took it down to the river and, damn it, it was as dry as a bone. It's still taking up garage space unfinished!

 

[Kukri]

Should cover about 50% of the crane and truck costs!

So then you will end up with a boat with no keel, but at least she will be in the place where you want her. Then you can flash up the chainsaw and keep toasty warm for the winter. :encouragement:

True, O King!

But it sometimes happens that the spars sails and rigging have been dry stored and are good.

 

[chinita]

But it sometimes happens that the spars sails and rigging have been dry stored and are good.

.....almost a certainty in this case, I'll warrant.

 

[jerrytug]

From memory, the iron keel on a Folkboat is one ton, same as a Dragon, so there is about three hundred pounds there.

Where are you getting that price from, try knocking off a zero would be closer.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Where are you getting that price from, try knocking off a zero would be closer.

Greengate Metals are paying £140/tonne for cast iron at the moment.

http://www.greengatemetals.co.uk/scrapmetal/prices/

 

[Kukri]

Where are you getting that price from, try knocking off a zero would be closer.

Metal Bulletin but I must have been reading the wrong column.

 

[jerrytug]

Greengate Metals are paying £140/tonne for cast iron at the moment.

http://www.greengatemetals.co.uk/scrapmetal/prices/

That's not bad!

 

[lukedh]

For 51 pages of Folkboat restoration see here: http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?88325-A-folkboat-found-me

 

[diapason]

Somebody bought her for a fiver - hopefully she will get a new lease of life.