People who strip boats

Simondjuk said:
There aren't many practical people around any more I guess. We took 16 months of weekends to turn a £4K boat into a £15K boat which was better finished than when new. Saw lots of other projects abandoned by initially enthusiastic but clueless DIYers while we were in the yard of course.
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Likewise i bought a 2k sabre & rebuilt her. Took nearly 3 years but i have a fine little ship that is as good as new. I did enjoy doing it & the sense of satisfaction at the end is worth it. And its supposedly my trade! Moral is buy a boat from a mug who has done all the hard work already!
 
prv said:
Trouble is, if they're a mug, will the work they've already done be any good?

Pete
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The mug does it properly and with care but gets virtually nothing in return for the time and money spent.The clever man gets the boat" looking " good but cuts corners and skimps on everything before flogging it on at a nice profit.
 
dylanwinter said:
In my ongoing low key Centaur hunt I have come across a couple of boats where some-one has bought the boat in reasonable nick and then completely stripped the inside

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But have you come across any where a chunk of the hull has been removed to make room for ....? If not, why not? Perhaps food for thought.
 
TBH it's crossed my mind to scrap my newly acquired achilles 24.

Sell my engine, sails, trailer, electrics, etc.. instead of looking at a £3500 bill for a new mast and standing rigging as well as drying out and repairing the chain plate assembly.

What to do?
 
Thistle said:
But have you come across any where a chunk of the hull has been removed to make room for ....? If not, why not? Perhaps food for thought.
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I have spent a massive amount of time thinking about just such a thing as you describe and attempting to save a Centaur from a long slow lingering death waiting for a new inboard that will never arrive.

you are quite correct to have reservations about such a project

as do I - not to have them would be arrogance of the highest order

However, I assume that quite a few people are curious to find out if it is worth doing

and there is really only one way of finding out....

just imagine the pleasure I will give so many people if this project comes unstuck
 
I have a theory - impossible to test, so it must remain a theory. Feminism killed all the boats.

In the 60's, 70's and even the 80's men used to come home from work and some went to the pub or football, others went to the boatyard. It was acceptable behaviour, women shopped or wotnot, men did manly stuff with other men. It was what men did - many of the guys spending too much time in yards to this day are of this age group, there are very few with young(ish) families.

Then somewhere in the 90's men propping up bars together or sticking their backsides in the air on a freezing February afternoon at the yard whilst women got on with their hoovering became unacceptable. The men who once disappeared every weekend to their empty hulk, alone and unchallenged had to go to the Trafford Centre for the latest Coffee Machine supersale or take their kids to a soft play area. Now I have been to my fair share of soft play areas on a Sunday morning and sipped Cappucinos with the Mrs and I can tell you, none of the men in those places have that happy far away look in their eyes you see (occasionally) in a boat yard. I suspect, therefore, they are not enjoying themselves - they are doing their bit as defined in the 'Manual of the Modern Man'.

I know there are exceptions - men who love to shop and women who love to antifoul. I suspect the majority of women posting here are of then latter persuasion, more or less. It is not them that I base my theory on, but the rest - the weeky shoppers, the 'soft payers' and the wipped!

So there you have it - Feminisim kills boats (and pubs).
 
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