Superflid
Well-Known Member
The threads about once-proud wooden boats being left to decay have been slightly depressing, I thought I'd come clean and admit to my foolishness!
To cut a long story, etc...
I've bought a Waarschip. It had been stood in Andy Seedhouse's yard for 6 years, had 2 owners and very little work done in that time. It was in a sorry state, in fact on my first visit I spent 2 minutes looking before walking away.
Some research, some advice, and a lot of thinking later I went back and did a good "root around" inside and out, then bought it.
On the ad it was being sold as a 24 footer, talking to Andy it turns out that he thought that they only made a 24 footer! It was in fact a Waarschip 570 of (just short of) 20ft and built in 1976, less wood to replace then!
Contact with the owners forum has produced loads of advice, some good, some not so....... and hundreds of pics of other Waarschip rebuilds. Plenty of offers of drawings or tech info.
The hull has been holed near the gunwhale on the st'b side and the transom has been replaced with non-marine ply. That's about the extent of work need to the hull. The deck seems to be 90% good and can be repaired. The coachroof is now in the firewood pile.
Sat on my drive, I've got my winter (and probably summer!) project.
To cut a long story, etc...
I've bought a Waarschip. It had been stood in Andy Seedhouse's yard for 6 years, had 2 owners and very little work done in that time. It was in a sorry state, in fact on my first visit I spent 2 minutes looking before walking away.
Some research, some advice, and a lot of thinking later I went back and did a good "root around" inside and out, then bought it.
On the ad it was being sold as a 24 footer, talking to Andy it turns out that he thought that they only made a 24 footer! It was in fact a Waarschip 570 of (just short of) 20ft and built in 1976, less wood to replace then!
Contact with the owners forum has produced loads of advice, some good, some not so....... and hundreds of pics of other Waarschip rebuilds. Plenty of offers of drawings or tech info.
The hull has been holed near the gunwhale on the st'b side and the transom has been replaced with non-marine ply. That's about the extent of work need to the hull. The deck seems to be 90% good and can be repaired. The coachroof is now in the firewood pile.
Sat on my drive, I've got my winter (and probably summer!) project.
