davidwheeler
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Good evening,
I haven't a clue whether this is the right site for this query. I did put it on the Motor Boat site, without result. It didn't seem to fit with other subjects there.
Below are some photos of a small wooden boat in my barn in France. The boat's origins are British I think. It seems that a former owner brought it across the channel on a trailer and left it, abandoned, in his garden in Brittany. Some years later, a neighbour saw it there, traced the owner and bought it. He fitted seating, made of garden-centre decking material.The boat was used for a time on the local canal and also in the Gulf of Morbihan, with a powerful outboard which caused or contributed to serious leakage and a sharp risk of sinking. The owner decided to get rid of it and I bought it. I removed the seating and mended the various holes cut into the sides and repaired other bits and pieces - it was a good winter project.
There is no indication in the boat as to its provenance. The trailer, which appears to have been made for it, has pieces manufactured by B & B Trailers of Leamington Spa, taken over in 1960. The trailer has an AA badge pre 1967. The one remaining instrument, the speedo, is manufactured by O.S Marine.
I quite like the boat. Has anyone any ideas as to when or where it was built and by whom? Has this sort of boat any particular interest these days, which might make it worth keeping it? Of little interest here, since it is not French.
I haven't a clue whether this is the right site for this query. I did put it on the Motor Boat site, without result. It didn't seem to fit with other subjects there.
Below are some photos of a small wooden boat in my barn in France. The boat's origins are British I think. It seems that a former owner brought it across the channel on a trailer and left it, abandoned, in his garden in Brittany. Some years later, a neighbour saw it there, traced the owner and bought it. He fitted seating, made of garden-centre decking material.The boat was used for a time on the local canal and also in the Gulf of Morbihan, with a powerful outboard which caused or contributed to serious leakage and a sharp risk of sinking. The owner decided to get rid of it and I bought it. I removed the seating and mended the various holes cut into the sides and repaired other bits and pieces - it was a good winter project.
There is no indication in the boat as to its provenance. The trailer, which appears to have been made for it, has pieces manufactured by B & B Trailers of Leamington Spa, taken over in 1960. The trailer has an AA badge pre 1967. The one remaining instrument, the speedo, is manufactured by O.S Marine.
I quite like the boat. Has anyone any ideas as to when or where it was built and by whom? Has this sort of boat any particular interest these days, which might make it worth keeping it? Of little interest here, since it is not French.
