will it sink?

I think you should expect her to take a couple of days to take up when launched if she's been ashore for more than a few weeks. Of course if you launch her every other weekend for a day or two she will dry out less in between. Why not keep her afloat as the builder intended?
 
As we previously discussed via PM, these launches aren't cheap! She looks lovely. You'll be able to take her up to Eling where the barmaid in the Village Bells is topless on a wednesday night. She'll dip her nipple in your pint if you ask nicely!

Keeping her afloat would be best of course.

I learnt to sail in a clinker built dinghy on the Hamble in the 70's, one of us bailed and the other sailed.

With a decent pump on board I think she'll be fine.

My old man has been a member of the rowing club just up above Cobden Bridge for 50 odd years, they have some clinker rowing skiffs up there that live ashore in the boat house, dry as a bone, sure we have to bail a bit when rowing up to Woodmill for an ice cream but its part of the fun.

You'll be messing with biscuit tins of sawdust before you know it!
 
Whoever wrote the ad does not know much about boats. It is clearly clinker built, not carvel. Whether it will dry out to the point it leaks will depend on how stable it is, the quality of the wood and fit of the lands and particularly the soundness of the fastenings. Hopefully that nice new looking engine is on flexible mounts on long bearers that spread the load over the bottom and is not shaking the boat to bits.

Looks good, though if you can keep up with it!
 
Clinker launch

Nice looking launch with a 3-cyl Beta. Says that she was built in 1992 but I would check to see what her hull is planked in..

If she is hardwood then there will be a smaller, and possibly slower, rate of shrinkage as she dries out, so dry storage is less of a problem. If you can keep her in a shady spot parked on grass, or near the sea, then there will be less of a risk of her drying out between uses.

We dry-sail our clinker-built Redwing without problems - she lives in a shady spot tucked in by a harbour wall right by the water.

I do not feel that it is not a good idea to leave water standing in the bilges of a wooden hull ashore, but I have used the trick of placing wet towels in the bilges of a Finesse to keep moisture levels up whilst still ashore in hot spring sunshine.. Old timers used to speak of 'wet sacks in the bilges' as a way of slowing the opening up of a timber hull during an enforced spell ashore. Has anyone else used this method?
 
Tranona said:
Whoever wrote the ad does not know much about boats. It is clearly clinker built, not carvel. Whether it will dry out to the point it leaks will depend on how stable it is, the quality of the wood and fit of the lands and particularly the soundness of the fastenings. Hopefully that nice new looking engine is on flexible mounts on long bearers that spread the load over the bottom and is not shaking the boat to bits.

Looks good, though if you can keep up with it!
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Yes, they ve admitted a bit of a typo there! Good point about the engine bearers, and thanks to everyone for your thoughts.
 
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