like in need more soggy wood

As the seller says, "She is fairly sound but needs some of the planks refastening but not replacing"..

Hmm. "Chinny reckon!" Doesn't Victorious and SeaNick do this sort of total rescue? Sadly, by the look of the ferns growing up through the rudder trunking, I think diesel is the more realistic option.

Oh, and if the seller was serious about restoration, wouldn't he have covered the hull with a tarp of some description? None in evidence. Shouldn't he be paying someone to take it off his hands?

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Robert Tucker.....1902???

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The only difference between this one and projects I am sure we have all undertaken is that in this the defects are apparent from the start.
Normally one starts with a reasonable looking boat and only discovers the true scope of the project after you have already invested a lot of time, money and love getting it apart. By then it is too late to stop, fortunately, so that is why we still have any old boats left at all.

It's too expensive, of course, but if I'd been given it 20 years ago in similar state I'd have taken it on, and be just about ready to launch now.
 
Agreed.
I wish I had a quid for every boat I could have picked up for nothing and which looked a lot better than this one.
I quickly learned the big financial hit for this kind of project comes with the transport, then storage, reasonably close to home and giving a decent area , preferably covered, to work in. Head rules heart, at last.
I suppose a year ago the keel might have been worth something.
 
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