Restoration or a minor miracle required ?

landlockedpirate said:
That dealer never seems to learn, thats going the hang around just like the other 2 basket cases hes got.
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...meanwhile deteriorating further and further.

Do we think there's a tarpaulin or something which has been removed for the photos, or is the hull half full of rainwater through those broken windows?

Even if it's got one of those bog-standard blue poly-tarps over it, that'll be gone by spring unless there's someone keeping a good eye on it.

Pete
 
tbh, tarp or not, that's going to need a new top grp section, all glazing and full rebuilt bottom up.
Much better getting one of the other sunken basketcases . At least you don't have to replace half the grp on them!

looks like it's only engines/outdrives and morse controls salvageable from this one.

V
 
There are several other boats around at the moment all of which appear to be very optimistically priced considering the sheer amount of work and time needed to get the things back to useable condition,most certainly none of them would be bought by anybody hoping to make a profit on resale.
Presume the vendors are hoping that some keen chap will take on the gargantuan task of getting these things back on the water.
At least three fire damaged boats and a further two sunken boats which had stern gear ripped out around at the moment.
Most have been on the market for ages before ending up on Ebay.
 
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Even if you bought this with a 'Serious' offer (what ever that means !), it would be close to impossible to discover the extent of the fire damage on the hull. This would make future valuation and sale, let alone insurability very difficult.

Perhaps a would be buyer should take up canal boating - they have plenty of barge poles with which not to touch this one !
 
vas said:
looks like it's only engines/outdrives and morse controls salvageable from this one.

V
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It's a F37 - shaft drive.

Surely this only has a value as as engines/ parts stripped off - assuming of course the engines are okay. The GRP looks to be completely scrap and negative equity due to the disposal cost.
 
Yes but considering the costs of re engining. If the engines are in good order then it'd be an attractive proposal. I know the PO of my boat spent in the high 40s to overhaul the engines as I have the paperwork. Were it me I'd be prepared to have a look at these. If they checked out I'd be tempted. As a resto never. As scrap value, possibly.
 
Have been involved in the past in the demolition of a smallish boat,abandoned by owners.The main problem is first finding somebody to accept the remains of the boat once you have reduced it to bits small enough to go into a skip.It took a dozen club members several days to cut up the boat and load it into skips.
A filthy and unpleasant task and this was before H & S would have been involved.
Even then, burning the thing would have been frowned on and it was fraction of the size of that F37.
 
I remain gobsmacked at the marine industry; if that was a car it would be at least a Cat B if not a Cat A write off.

The fact that a 'dealer' thinks that selling a carcenigenic time bomb on eBay is perfectly OK seems beyond belief.
 
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