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I know my answers may be bit slow or hard to read at times hatte touch phones and at 50 like buttons on my phone or a keyboard am old school rather write letters than faz or email so sorry if my mesages are abit difficult to read at times
 
Hit it with a small pointy hammer all over below the water line if it goes through at all or feels like it might....RUN AWAY from that boat FAST!!!!
Take it you cannot weld?
There are plenty of fibreglass ones around and they last forever .
 
James-Will1,

sorry, everyone likes to dream but a cheap biggish old steel boat is a nightmare waiting to happen, and being blunt but not wishing to offend you don't seem very experienced to take on a major project like this.

Don't walk away, RUN ! Then look for a more suitable grp boat, there are loads out there - and they will still all cost much more to moor and store, let alone renovate, than your initial calculations.

Don't stop dreaming, just read up as much as you can and go for a much smaller project to start with.
 
Sandyman said:
taken up viagos mantra :)
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At least viago uses full stops so you know where one sentence ends and another finishes!

I'm Mr Grumpy now because 99% of the time I'm on these forums via my smartphone and I don't buy the excuse that using punctuation on the phone is difficult.

Anyway I agree with all those who said, "Run away...".
 
john_morris_uk said:
At least viago uses full stops so you know where one sentence ends and another finishes!

I'm Mr Grumpy now because 99% of the time I'm on these forums via my smartphone and I don't buy the excuse that using punctuation on the phone is difficult.
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You see now that's the problem, if you spend 99% of your time on forums you'll get very grumpy. Or was it the grammar at fault? Perhaps this would be clearer:

I'm Mr Grumpy now because 99% of the time that I'm on these forums it is via my smartphone and I don't buy the excuse that using punctuation on the phone is difficult.
 
Colvic Watson said:
You see now that's the problem, if you spend 99% of your time on forums you'll get very grumpy. Or was it the grammar at fault? Perhaps this would be clearer:

I'm Mr Grumpy now because 99% of the time that I'm on these forums it is via my smartphone and I don't buy the excuse that using punctuation on the phone is difficult.
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A comma or two wouldn't go amiss, either! ;)

Meanwhile, another vote for the original poster running away from what seems almost certain to be a huge liability and source of grief.
 
Sandyman said:
Least I should indulge you old chap :) The septics during WW11, who were based in the area called Penryn, Shagtown. No need to explain why :) Having spent time in Falmouth during my Naval youth I can confirm the correct use of the term :) :)
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Blimey! Wasn't like that last week. Even the students weren't out.
 
james-will1 said:
I know it does float so would have to try sort out getting it towed to wherever I can put it if it still available but must say am starting to be pleasantly surprised off the interest and possible support am getting on here and it makes me feel like I am part off a good community already
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Beware!
 
Niander said:
Hit it with a small pointy hammer all over below the water line if it goes through at all or feels like it might....RUN AWAY from that boat FAST!!!!
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Indeed - reminds me of the bloke with the blue trawler moored on the Itchen who spent about six years, god knows how many thousands of pounds, and at least one girlfriend, trying to refit the boat without ever having checked the plating. Then he took it for a lift and scrub at that yard next to Hythe marina, and the first blast from a pressure washer went right through the steel. Whole lot went for scrap a couple of days later and that was that. Furthest "cruise" he ever got to do was the delivery under tow round from Portsmouth to Southampton.

I believe he bought a GRP yacht after that and actually started sailing instead of chipping rust and angle-grinding rusty plumbing every waking hour.

Pete
 
There used to be one creek between Flushing and Penryn, accessible over the fields. It was always full of 'orrible old tore-outs, some of them filled on every tide ... we used to call it dead-boat creek. One or two used to live there. I once went down there to nail a writ to the mast on a catamaran but got there and found it had an ally mast! Sent a boy for some sellotape! ... all this a very long time ago!
 
Kingfisher 3 said:
There used to be one creek between Flushing and Penryn, accessible over the fields. It was always full of 'orrible old tore-outs, some of them filled on every tide ... we used to call it dead-boat creek. One or two used to live there. I once went down there to nail a writ to the mast on a catamaran but got there and found it had an ally mast! Sent a boy for some sellotape! ... all this a very long time ago!
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It's a while since I've been there, but as I recall Islington Quay (Wharf?) on Penrhyn used to have a large population of dreamers. You know, disintegrating old hulks whose occupants have shaggy hair if male, dirndls if female and nothing on below the waist if under the age of four. I like these people, I hasten to say, which is why I am glad they don't try to take their wrecks to sea .
 
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It's over the creek from the Muddy Beach cafe, in the graveyard of hopes and dreams. Most of the hulks there are quietly decaying with no one to look after them. JD is right about Islington Quay but it's now a bit more up market than it used to be: there are a few businesses based there and most of the boats ashore for the winter get relaunched about now or so. I row up there with the gig club when tides permit, as the Muddy Beach cafe does cinnamon buns to die for. Regrettably few live aboard types in the Islington Quay area any more (most of the hulks in the upper creek flood on the tide); the liveaboard community now seems to lurk on the opposite bank nearer to Lidl and the BMW franchise.
As for the OP, run away from this very very fast as it is an unsafe money pit. The only option for it as far as cheap/free berthing is concerned in the area is the one it's on at the moment: that suffers from a lack of power and water making it difficult to do any serious work on the boat. A full tide mooring is out, as the state the boat is in is such that it'd probably sink during the first big wind. There are other half tide berths in the area but just getting that boat to them is a significant problem. So unless the OP is a skilled shipwright with access to all the tools needed to fix this boat up, I'd not touch it with the proverbial bargepole.
 
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