PBO project boat

dylanwinter

dylanwinter

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well I think

Ex-SolentBoy said:
Looks like the best thing for that would be to do the merciful thing and sink it somewhere deep.
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I think it makes a change from going for day sails on £50,000 lozenges

however, as I said in the film - for me the snapdragon is the worst of all worlds - a centre plater that does not take the ground

however, there are some nice looking versions on the web

https://www.google.com/search?q=snapdragon 23&biw=1440&bih=731&sei=KuejT73RI8SDOqjlnK8I&tbm=isch

as for keeping the inboard..... well it has cost me a lot of money to escape from inboards

Dylan
 
I drive past it nearly every day and cringe at the thought of all that work! Great for illustrating what is involved in doing the various jobs, but the totality does illustrate how impractical it is to try and do up old boats when there are so many "together" cheap boats which have not ended up that way because owners have done enough to keep them operational.

Trouble is they don't rot back into the ground so many will end up like this one, languishing unused or unusable in yards and back gardens.
 
My father took me to a graveyard for boats in the late 1950 s somewhere like iselworth,a boatyard full of old toreouts all wooden of course. I think he dreamed of adventure......it wasnt till 1970 that he bought a new Halcyon 27 that he managed to afford cruiseing.
 
There's a very distinctive wooden motorboat that's appeared at the boatyard (Hayling Yacht Co.) recently, probably early 20th C, looks like some of the smaller Dunkirk boats. Someone has taken her on as a project and either they are dead keen woodworkers, rich, or you've got to admire their optimism and stamina. All she needs, really, is some replanking, probably a new transom and the odd frame and lump of keel, and making watertight. Then she'll be ready for a rudder, engines and replacement of the missing port propeller; all that will then need doing is internal fitting out from scratch. Even with a good team it's hard to see her in the water within two years, but then that's what boats are like. I hope they succeed.

Why do it? It would probably take just as long to build a similar boat from scratch, or buy a newer one secondhand, but you'd have none of the history, even if you managed to design in the character. Boats are worth a lot more than the money you pay for them. My boat is family, and I would no more scrap her as uneconomic to repair than I would have a cat or a dog put down for the same reason, if I had the money in the first place.
 
Evadne said:
Why do it? It would probably take just as long to build a similar boat from scratch, or buy a newer one secondhand, but you'd have none of the history, even if you managed to design in the character. Boats are worth a lot more than the money you pay for them. My boat is family, and I would no more scrap her as uneconomic to repair than I would have a cat or a dog put down for the same reason, if I had the money in the first place.
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Thats a very different scenario. I also have a boat that I have had for over 30 years and have spent far more then it will ever be worth - but spread over the 30+ years it has been a bargain compared with what I could have spent changing boats - but lucky to choose the 2right" boat in the first place.

However, buying an abandoned collection of bits that was once a very ordinary boat and spending a fortune in hours and money to turn it into another ordinary boat when there are plenty of ordinary boats available ready to go, does not make sense. Unless, of course one enjoys the messing about bit more than the sailing bit!

I have just been looking at a 1921 Alden schooner that is probably nearer your old motor boat example (but not as bad) that if I was 20 years younger would be very tempting - but the difference would be that it is an EXTRA ordinary boat - or will be when renovated - in time for its 100th birthday.
 
Surely the point of the PBO project is not necessarily to encourage people to do up a complete wreck (though good luck to those who wish to) but to provide an opportunity of demonstrating how to tackle any of the various defects that might crop up in any of our boats.

Much simpler than trying to find examples of defects on lots of different boats.
 
dylanwinter said:
I think it makes a change from going for day sails on £50,000 lozenges

however, as I said in the film - for me the snapdragon is the worst of all worlds - a centre plater that does not take the ground

however, there are some nice looking versions on the web

https://www.google.com/search?q=snapdragon 23&biw=1440&bih=731&sei=KuejT73RI8SDOqjlnK8I&tbm=isch

as for keeping the inboard..... well it has cost me a lot of money to escape from inboards

Dylan
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Where ??? The only good one I found was this:
 
This is why ....

"A boat is something more than an ingenious arrangement of wood, copper and iron. It has a soul, a personality and eccentricities of behavior that are enduring. It becomes part of a person, coloring his whole life with a romance that is unknown to those not connected with the way of boats. The older the boat becomes, the stronger the power. "

Frank Mulville.


And this, posted on another forum:

http://www.classicboat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=270917
 
'Things men have made with wakened hand, and put soft life into, are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely, warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them."
D.H.Lawrence
 
I for one will follow the project with interest

well I will folllow the project with interest

I am not sure I would have chosen that particular boat....

but it will be intersting to see how it turns out

five hacks scraping a boat is a pretty funny idea though

work out the hourly rate for the labour

but I think it is a great project

resurrecting an old engine, electronics, fitting windows, riggings, the bog, electrics

all potentially interesting projects

Dylan
 
Shame that the Slug wasn't for sale in time to be the PBO project boat Dylan - you could have watched the lads struggle with the beast!

Before you come around and duff me up - I'm not saying the lovely Slug is remotely in the condition of the project boat!!
 
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