Junk you wish you never bought.

[Guest]

I've just been cleaning out the garage in anticipation of what santa will bring, when I started to come across things that I "had to have" for the boat but now lie cold, unused and unloved on the floor.

They include Honda generator(still boxed) combined 12v TV/video,Cockpit curtain set etc etc. My question is this what have you bought that you had to have and then never used it ?

 

[byron]

Sell it Mate, sell cheaply, sell quickly, better in your pocket than rotting in the cupboard.
Swap you a brand new boxed remote control spotlight for the Gennie.

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[Guest]

blimey mark F, not many of us have new generators lying about unused. I have one of those crap garden leaf blowers, good for blowing the leaves into next doors garden, but they must have one of them too, and the leaves come back again.

 

[paulineb]

A lawn mower and paint brushes

Mr B never uses them ;-)

Pxx

 

[ChrisP]

Re: A lawn mower and paint brushes

You can use the paint brushes to antifoul the boat for him.

 

[paulineb]

JFRO ...nm

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Pxx

 

[Dave_Snelson]

An old Merc 35 and an even older merc 100, both bought for spares and/or restoration - never happened - got rid of 'em now.

 

[ChrisP]

Re: JFRO ...nm

And who are we going to be today Mathew

 

[paulineb]

Re: JFRO

Today Matthew, I am Kylie Minogue

Pxx

 

[Guest]

Mark

What's the gennie. I could well be interested.

Colin

 

[ChrisP]

Re: JFRO

Wouldn't mind the real thing. Just for pleasant conversation of course.

 

[paulineb]

Re: JFRO

The sad thing is Chrispy, I believe you ;-)

Pxx

 

[Guest]

Honda Eu10i, sorry its not for sale because one day I might just need it!

 

[Guest]

Now Matt dont go all coy on us, you might not have a Gennie lying about in there but I bet you've got the odd Ferrari or maybe one of them Range Rover Autobiography's with the pink leather and yellow paint jobs that looked sooo good in the showroom ;-)

 

[Guest]

ooh no space in my hovel of a garage. No danger whasoever of ever buying a range rover, and as for ferraris, I've learnt my lesson.

 

[Guest]

Boat junk, you may all disagee with me but, I bought a Yeoman paper chartplotter when they first came out, never got on with it at all, case of line this up here ,ref this bit and that, by the time you had done it you were on to the next chart, all right I suppose if your'e a raggie but IMHO not much good at 20 odd knots.

As for thre junkyard at home a Triumph 2.5 PI thats still in a million pieces., and half a rallycar.....somewhere!.

Paul js.

 

[Scubadoo]

Well I could write a list, but thought better of it. The largest thing is a Landrover I used to use to tow my prevoius trailer boat, new boat kept in a marina. I bought a 9.9hp outboard ready for my new boat back in 1999 as a backup, only to realise it too heavy and has since then never moved from the garage. Lastly a tender outboard that is taken down to the boat most occasions but rarely used!

RM.

 

[Guest]

Re: triumph 2.5 PI

ooh I had one of these. Two, in fact. Fist, the grinning mkII. Then I bought a mk1, for spares, but which was actually better and went even faster, and now so trendy that they're in Levi adverts. I think I abandoned the mk1 one cos the road tax came up and made the whole thing unecomomic, and the mkII suspension came apart over a speed bump, albeit experimenting against a superior but slower citroen DS.

 

[Guest]

Re: triumph 2.5 PI

Yes Matt youv'e got great taste in cars as well then, iv'e restored one or two Triumphs but just havent got time for this one and the boat as well, any takers?

paul js.

 

[coliholic]

Re: triumph 2.5 PI

You can add my XJS to the list of junk to be dumped. Bought it to turn into a kit car, was planning to put a nice new body on it and then broke the engine and by the time I'd spemt about £800 fixing, the boating season had come back round and lost interest.

So we've got the XJS for the scrapyard, any takers?No reasonable offer refused