newtothis
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Christ, the guy is 78 and still sailing. So he rolls a bit when he walks. You might too if you'd spent the last 60 years on board boats.
I wonder how much the owner would want for this wreck
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Mark-1
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No criticism there whatsoever. I'm pretty awkward myself, and I can't compensate by writing or presenting! And you've selected one minor negative in a post full of gushing praise!
benjenbav
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Tom Cunliffe’s Shell Channel Pilot was a book that I have found invaluable and hugely accessible. I’ve never been a big fan of his presentational style but he’s certainly forgotten much more about sailing than I’ll ever know.
doug748
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They both look very attractive buys to me, When a number of our older forum members started sailing they would never have even dreamt of owning a boat of that size and quality - 5 grand for the boat of a lifetime, snip.
I fear if the series goes on they will go down the route of spending a fortune on every little rattle instead of tackling the basics, buying used kit and going sailing.
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I fear if the series goes on they will go down the route of spending a fortune on every little rattle instead of tackling the basics, buying used kit and going sailing.
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dunedin
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I wondered where it was. Such a depressing place, so many abandoned and neglected boats dying in the same location.
The old HR was a nice boat in its day - but the abandoned one looked to be near worthless for somebody who wants to go sailing rather than spend their time fixing.
Tranona
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I was there a couple of weeks ago having a nosey around. When I first moved down here nearly 50 years ago I kept my Seawych there on a river mooring - in fact spent the first 2 weeks "living" on it while the weather was nice (September). I worked for British Seagull and we did lot of our testing up and down the river with a lunch stop on Wareham Quay.
The abandoned boat is a better bet than the blue one. If you look at the videos of the new owners you will see that they have some really expensive or time consuming jobs to do with the knackered teak decks and leaky fittings. OK the boat is mobile and could be used but to keep it running will be very resource consuming. On the other hand the Nab has no teak and once it is cleaned up and the relatively minor issues around the mast step and anchor locker dealt with it should be less trouble. This of course assumes the engine and rig are OK. I agree with Ben £20k and some hard graft would result in a nice sound boat.
Mark-1
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Good spot on the teak deck. Big liability.
benjenbav
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That age deck will almost certainly have been glued and screwed. So lots of opportunities for water ingress that will need to be addressed and lots and lots of fairing.
Stemar
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Lovely as they are, a teak deck would be a dealbreaker for me unless the boat was new, or the price took into account the work involved in removing it and making good with Kiwigrip or similar. Screwed teak into a balsa-cored deck? No, just no.
fredrussell
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Sheesh, tough crowd. I thought that was pretty good. Literary and everything.
