Interesting boat on ebay

[ridgy]

Not involved it just caught my eye:
Sailing boat - Cornish Polperro Gaffer | eBay

Looks like it's had some serious money spent on it and a thing of beauty at least to me. Owner must be sad. Wife happy maybe.

 

[jamie N]

She's had a lot of love, and is nearly there I'd say.
Good luck to finding the right purchaser.

 

[Poignard]

A thing of beauty, a real classic.

 

[OldBawley]

Which I was younger

 

[Keith 66]

Good looking boat, but she has been out of the water a long time & is obviously totally dried out after a long hot summer. It will take some care to get her to swell up without doing damage. Worst thing to do would be to caulk her too hard straight away. To be honest i cant see her going for that much. Hope im wrong!

 

[tillergirl]

I fear I don't like the short planking at the bow (and some other oddities). But I am no expert.

 

[Hacker]

Those short planks at the bow are not a good repair. I would hope any surveyor would ask for them to be replaced.

 

[DoubleEnder]

below she has a lot of beds and not a single locker. But yes a lovely boat

 

[jamie N]

I saw the absence of lockers, but reckoned that kit's stowed beneath your own bunk.

 

[luke collins]

Those short planks at the bow are not a good repair. I would hope any surveyor would ask for them to be replaced.

. For my own knowledge how long should the planks on the bow be and what effect does it have with them being short? Thanks

 

[Hacker]

No hard and fast rule as it depends on what the ribs are like. Generally you would want the plank to span at least 3 ribs and then 3 planks between it and the next shortest (same basic criteria for setting out butt blocks). The bow is the palce that takes most of the force from the sea and the danger with multiple short runs is plank failure as they get worked by the sea.

 

[LittleSister]

A fine boat to admire from a distance.

I wouldn't want to go anywhere near owning it, even if I were willing to consider wooden boats (which I'm not).