Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Full Scale Ships => Topic started by: rrs01 on December 03, 2014, 03:40:44 am
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Anyone heard about this ship up for sale??
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/boa/4774822938.html
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Is it me or does that look like an awful lot of boat for £31,944 ($50,000).
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The fact that it needs a new Engine & a new Rudder makes the price a bit more realistic...
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not so much the engine, which will be a good few grand but the removal of cabins, deck and other such stuff to actually get it inside and into the engine room...................think I'll give that one a miss..........buy a beautiful ex lifeboat for that money with two GOOD engines, lol
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Well, even if you spent another $50,000 on necessary repairs (and I doubt you need to dismantle her to replace the engine Neil - although you might need to unbolt some furniture %)), that would be a lot of boat for the money. It's just that you need a lot of friends to sail her! {-) I guess you have to be the sort of person who appears on Grand Designs to contemplate a home like this. But what a conversation piece!
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Great looking boat, but the one thing that puts me off is the construction method, Ferro Cement. Although many boats have been constructed by this method (See http://www.ferrocement.org/) and quite successfully, I would still feel safer with Wood, GRP or Steel!!
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Before you buy consider this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11270956/Britons-impulse-buying-fishing-boats-after-a-few-drinks-says-Fowey-harbourmaster.html