Oldest boat in the Solent not Ken's - shock

[Evadne]

Oldest boat in the Solent not Ken\'s - shock

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...but it's still wood and they haven't ruled out that it's a Kim Holman design.

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[jimi]

Re: Oldest boat in the Solent not Ken\'s - shock

Latest update from Southampton Oceanography Centre

"Upon closer examination the log boat was found to be the remains of a 2001 build Bavaria 34 which a careless owner had left in the water over the 2002 winter."

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[tome]

Re: Oldest boat in the Solent not Ken\'s - shock

You can see from the holding tank sounding stick they uncovered that it's more recent.

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[Twister_Ken]

That\'s daft

Everybody knows the oldest boats in the Solent are the Lymington-Yarmouth ferries.

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[Aja]

Re: Oldest boat in the Solent not Ken\'s - shock

We were building steamships by then!

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[Aja]

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Dugouts?

We were building steamships by then!

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[Chris_Robb]

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and had not emptied the holding tanks because he did'nt know they were there

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[jhr]

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"Log boat"

That settles it - definitely constructed from the impacted contents of your holding tank............

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[chas]

Re: Oldest boat in the Solent not Ken\'s - shock

And not helped by the fact it had a stone head!

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[Gunfleet]

Re: stone head

The stone head was in fact a prototype Lavac

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