Old wooden boat-to break or not to break?

[ffiill]

My old wooden boat currently lying unused on its mooring has little value in the current market.
I am bringing it home on a trailer and I am faced with several choices.
I could with a lot of TLC and around about £3000 bring it back to its former glory or I could break it up.
I have the space to break it and with the lead keel weighing in at about two tons thats £2000 straight away.
The Mahogany and oak hull is probably worth at least one years heating of my house thats £3000.
The bronze and gunmetal fittings perhaps £500 including 6 traditional portholes.
The prop etc.
So breaking seems to be the way forward for the boat which will be 70 years old in 2017.
Views and opinions please?

 

[Poignard]

Vultures gathering

Sad when a old wooden boat has to go but, if she has to go, I hope we shall see the bronze fittings offered for sale on here. :ambivalence:

 

[duncan99210]

Put it on Ebay as an auction with a reserve of what you could realistically expect to recover from the scrap value (you've done the sums above). If it sells, you've saved the work of breaking it up; if it doesn't sell,then you still have the option of breaking it up yourself or fixing it if that's what you decide after reflection. Give it as long an auction time as possible and make it clear that its a project boat, not a going concern. Someone might just take it on.

 

[prv]

Could some of the better wood be saved rather than burned? Decent boatbuilding hardwood is in short supply these days.

Pete

 

[andygc]

You have a boat that floats, so presumably is sailable but in need of some refurbishment. It's worth about £6,000 to you. If you advertise it, somebody like me may come along and take it on because they have a foolish love of old boats (like me, not me, mine's 70 in 2016). If they give you about £6,000 for her then you'll be happy. Unfortunately, if she sits on a trailer for long she'll open up and eventually be unrecoverable. So it looks like going for a fairly quick sale (months rather than years) and then the chainsaw if there's no buyer. Unless you can find a free mud berth and have the patience to wait for a buyer to come by.

 

[Boo2]

My old wooden boat currently lying unused on its mooring..

Got any pix ?

Boo2

 

[Lakesailor]

I'm sure you will find with a bit of Googling that wooden boats in need of a lot of work are valueless.

If you can recover a value of £5-6K that is the wise move. If you get someone to stump up £2K for it you'll be

A) Lucky

B) Funding someone else's breaking and weighing-in project.

 

[Eyore]

Lets see some pics.