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In my twenties I 'restored' a number of what now would be called classic cars, then just old cars. Good fun just to get them going again. I had two Bentleys at the same time and a 1957 Porsche Convertible D. which in good condition are worth £150,000 now....mine was worth about £150 plus the cost of 1,000,000 pop rivets and half a ton of filler.

 

However you don't say if you have ever sailed a Scorpion before, so as iitick says above maybe the best thing to do is to patch it together for this year, sail it and see if you even like it. Scorpions are not everyones cup of tea.

 

With the Epoxy revolution anyone can patch up an old boat enough to get it sailing. So unless you  are actually going through the bottom and other bit are literally falling off patch it and have fun!

Interesting comment, how so? (other than any other class)

Tide came in, Inshore rescue boat launched, boat trashed.

Scorpion Owners.

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Most Scorpions are relatively well kept. There aren't many classes where a 25 year old boat can still keep pace with new boats, if not still capable of winning a Nationals?

I once wasted a weekend double concaving the hull of one in the days when double concave made faster boards so my business partner, fancied trying it on his Scorpion, no idea what happened, the class in our area fell victim to the Iso revolution that failed, and effectively killed dinghy sailing at our club until recently when the Dover lot joined us, but the renaissance was Scorpion free.

Not sure what happened through out the nineties. The class seemed to have reached critical mass and was doing really well.

There are quite a few clubs like Hythe which used to be Scorpion strong holds.

In my view, cheaper and more competative than the MR's and definitely more rewarding than a GP14.

The design is pretty good and whilst being lightweight they are very solidly put together (they were designed to take a battering in surf so.........)

Silly Money.

But they are a super sea boat, ideal for our club, a tad on the narrow side for a modern day hiker and whenever I've seen them at shows, they are as complex as any Merlin, without the nearby bar to go and ask Stella for the answer to any question you might have about them.

£14k on a boat these days feels a bit daft.

But then I have never outrigt owned a boat that was worth more than a few hundred, if that (ie not one i bought in a club abandoned auction, fixed up and sailed)

There were a few 'customs' I have heard rumours of where the builder tried to get a little clever with the tolerances. 

I am under the impression that perceived value is whatever someone is willing to pay for it (or in the case of this thread, how much time/money someone is willing to spend on rebuilding it).

NB. As a crew, a narrower beam is slightly better as it means you dont spend most of your time huddled under the boom getting tangled up in the kicker and getting cut up by anything in the crew area in the boat. Except for in the super light, hardly worth going out stuff I tend to be sitting on the deck, and that with two fully grown adults in the boat

Barry Dodds Scorpion, Basavari (or similar) was expensive because he insisted that John Turner to built it, when he had finished building Scorpions.