One step back in boat buying

Bouba said:
I agree.... but getting in an expert requires an expert. You make appointment after appointment....go in personally....my favorite is returning to the office three times, and when asking what happened, they say, who are you ?...also, when you do get someone...they are often not more skilled...just more flexible.
I have to replace two more through hulls on the next pull out in a years time....these are accessible in terms that I can see them and I can touch them....but actually getting a tool in there will require some ingenuity
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Agreed - the lack of available and skilled people is an issue.

Over my working life (50+ years) I've build some skills. I mean, if you can remember most of what you did or where involved in over 5 decades, you have to be a wise ol' fart in many respects.

Two through hulls that are hard to get to sounds interesting. Hard to get to might mean hard "for you" as if your agility in joint's movements has diminished, and calling a contortionist's apprentice looks to be the solution. However, given a year to think it out I'd regard it "no problem", tbh.

What kind of though hulls? Getting the existing out can be done form the outside and putting new in can be eased in a few ways... some times..
 
ChromeDome said:
Agreed - the lack of available and skilled people is an issue.

Over my working life (50+ years) I've build some skills. I mean, if you can remember most of what you did or where involved in over 5 decades, you have to be a wise ol' fart in many respects.

Two through hulls that are hard to get to sounds interesting. Hard to get to might mean hard "for you" as if your agility in joint's movements has diminished, and calling a contortionist's apprentice looks to be the solution. However, given a year to think it out I'd regard it "no problem", tbh.

What kind of though hulls? Getting the existing out can be done form the outside and putting new in can be eased in a few ways... some times..
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I will provide photos on my next boat visit
 
Wansworth said:
It’s the weekend…..coffee croissants….IKEA!
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Now don't you use the I-word in a male dominated domain, prime-time, approaching the weekend!

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A place I avoid as much as possible. And no - their cafeteria and bistro are not to my liking either.
As a matter of fact Swedish every-day cuisine leaves a lot of room for improvement, IMO.
 
Interrupting the Foodies on the subject of scoff for a minute Wansy, in 2012/13 I managed to get my Nic 32 with a dead engine home to England for just over £2000. Replacing the engine, sent out from Uk and installed by Don Robber and his gang as the Marina would not allow me to do a self install. Then there was Customs, some sort of Tax they dreamed up and a few other charges thrown in for good measure, so £2000 by road was cheap.
BUT..I managed to find a low loader that had delivered a boat to Barcelona, I was in Torreveija. He drove down empty and I had the boat craned aboard at the Marina.
I chickened out of the voyage home engineless and singlehanded as I would have caught the Autumn Gales even if I had made really fast progress down to Gib and out into the Atlantic.
Obviously times and costs have changed a lot, but if you do ever think of boat transport sometimes it is possible to find a lorry coming home empty and willing to make a detour to earn extra money. (y)
 
veshengro said:
Interrupting the Foodies on the subject of scoff for a minute Wansy, in 2012/13 I managed to get my Nic 32 with a dead engine home to England for just over £2000. Replacing the engine, sent out from Uk and installed by Don Robber and his gang as the Marina would not allow me to do a self install. Then there was Customs, some sort of Tax they dreamed up and a few other charges thrown in for good measure, so £2000 by road was cheap.
BUT..I managed to find a low loader that had delivered a boat to Barcelona, I was in Torreveija. He drove down empty and I had the boat craned aboard at the Marina.
I chickened out of the voyage home engineless and singlehanded as I would have caught the Autumn Gales even if I had made really fast progress down to Gib and out into the Atlantic.
Obviously times and costs have changed a lot, but if you do ever think of boat transport sometimes it is possible to find a lorry coming home empty and willing to make a detour to earn extra money. (y)
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"Sometimes" being the keyword. I got a deal when transporting our 30' mobo with Fly (3.45m wide, 4.5m high) by road from Hamble to Denmark. Should have gone as Wide load by special route with escorting (police-in-each-country-)cars via France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. The outlook was eyewatering - very!

Deal was to dismantle the fly partially, put on a low rider, haul it to Harwich, by ferry (just the trailer w/boat) to Esbjerg, collected by Danish low rider and delivered to our marina.

The very good broker James Dickens in Hamble (now retired) made it all happen. Flawless, smooth and timely.

£4k + VAT. Huh, can't seem to find the receipt anymore... ;)

If you can't find a deal the cost can be anything.
 
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veshengro said:
Interrupting the Foodies on the subject of scoff for a minute Wansy, in 2012/13 I managed to get my Nic 32 with a dead engine home to England for just over £2000. Replacing the engine, sent out from Uk and installed by Don Robber and his gang as the Marina would not allow me to do a self install. Then there was Customs, some sort of Tax they dreamed up and a few other charges thrown in for good measure, so £2000 by road was cheap.
BUT..I managed to find a low loader that had delivered a boat to Barcelona, I was in Torreveija. He drove down empty and I had the boat craned aboard at the Marina.
I chickened out of the voyage home engineless and singlehanded as I would have caught the Autumn Gales even if I had made really fast progress down to Gib and out into the Atlantic.
Obviously times and costs have changed a lot, but if you do ever think of boat transport sometimes it is possible to find a lorry coming home empty and willing to make a detour to earn extra money. (y)
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Thanks
 
veshengro said:
Interrupting the Foodies on the subject of scoff for a minute Wansy, in 2012/13 I managed to get my Nic 32 with a dead engine home to England for just over £2000. Replacing the engine, sent out from Uk and installed by Don Robber and his gang as the Marina would not allow me to do a self install. Then there was Customs, some sort of Tax they dreamed up and a few other charges thrown in for good measure, so £2000 by road was cheap.
BUT..I managed to find a low loader that had delivered a boat to Barcelona, I was in Torreveija. He drove down empty and I had the boat craned aboard at the Marina.
I chickened out of the voyage home engineless and singlehanded as I would have caught the Autumn Gales even if I had made really fast progress down to Gib and out into the Atlantic.
Obviously times and costs have changed a lot, but if you do ever think of boat transport sometimes it is possible to find a lorry coming home empty and willing to make a detour to earn extra money. (y)
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Wansy has a tow bar on his four by four
 
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