Wooden Boat Breakers - Clinker Timbers

[Silverfox58]

Anybody point me in the direction of wooden boat breakers in Essex?

I’m looking for some repair timber for my Sea Land 24 Clinker boat. Ideally sections of planks that I can stitch into the few rotten areas above the waterline.

Also looking for hardware such as mast and bowsprit iron work.

although based in Edinburgh I’m in Essex regularly, see so many broken boats in the estuaries, somebody must be recycling the broken dreams or lost causes.

 

[Silverfox58]

Sea King

 

[tidclacy]

Try M J Lewis boatyard in Maldon

 

[ianc1200]

There's a Finesse which has been about to be broken up/burnt at Titchmarsh. If I'm correct and the hull planking is iroko parts of it might be useable.

 

[Keith 66]

Most old wooden boats get summarily dispatched with a digger & go straight on the bonfire or in a skip, You are absolutely wasting your time trying to use bits of old boat, most will be as bad as what you are cutting out. With a clinker boat it is far easier & quicker to use some new timber, For removing rivet heads a black & decker power file is just the job, sand the top off the rove & punch the rivet out, Same can be done on the outside of the lower edge or you can chisel some wood away & nip the heads of the nails off with end cutters. Saw your plank through & remove it. The old plank is your pattern, tread it flat on the new timber & draw round it. Add enough length each end for the scarphs. Plane the bevel on & go for a fit. Clinker planks are always scarphed never butt jointed.
Have fun!