FREE BOAT!
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Forum Name: Repair & maintenance
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Topic: FREE BOAT!
Posted By: didlydon
Subject: FREE BOAT!
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 10:28am
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Right. Who wants a nice wooden Snipe? THIS BOAT IS TOO GOOD TO DUMP!!! ------------- Vareo 365 |
This has been stored for a few years under a large open fronted arch, so protected from the elements with plenty of ventilation. The hull is intact with no huge holes or rotten bits that I can see. It has centre plate fitted, has a rudder... BUT... no trolley, spars, sails or rigging. It would make a great project for someone...... Naturally, you will need suitable transport to take it away. Please respond to me ASAP as the council are moving it out cos they need the space. I can send a couple of pics to those genuinely interested. Location: Margate Yacht Club, Kent.Replies:
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 10:33am
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Bonfire Night coming up!
Can you deliver? Hythe Beach just after 6? ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.ease-distribution.com/ |
Posted By: didlydon
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 10:35am
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Might have known you'd say something like that!! Get your own damn firewood!! ------------- Vareo 365 |
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 10:54am
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Er should I take that as a no then?
I'd have put a tattie in the embers for you..  ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.ease-distribution.com/ |
Posted By: didlydon
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 10:59am
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I've heard about you hooligans who go round lighting bonfires & setting fire to anything left lying around.... you're a menace................ ------------- Vareo 365 |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 12:05pm
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>Too good to dump
Maybe so, but if it needs a complete new rig etc it will cost more to put it on the water than its worth. The only person it would be any use for is someone who owns a rotten or otherwise useless Snipe they can transfer everything across from. Unless you can find someone with a worse hull or more free storage then the fire is probably the only practical option. |
Posted By: didlydon
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 1:40pm
All I can say is ..... what a waste!  I get your point though. As a youngster I'd have killed for a free boat to bugger around with.... even if I just paddled the darn thing around the harbour! I was kinda hoping that maybe someone might like it for a youth restoration project or some such, you know learn a few skills on the way & get on the water eventually.....------------- Vareo 365 |
Posted By: Rockhopper
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 2:41pm
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I reckon it should go on westwoods roundabout best place for it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------- Retired now after 35 seasons in a row and time for a rest. 2004 national champ Laser5000 2007,2010,National Champ Rs Vareo |
Posted By: MerlinMags
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 4:14pm
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No boat without rot should be burnt, its a crime (unless it's a Bosun of course, heh heh).
I wonder if the class association would be able to store it. Can't think of many other options, other than putting it on ebay for 1p. |
Posted By: zailor
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 5:59pm
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can you put an engine on it? Bet that would be a laugh ------------- |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 6:20pm
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If you know anyone going to Orkney, they have a big fleet up there! It is where all the old Budworth ones go out to pasture. Only several hundred miles away... It might be worth putting a note up on the classics forum, www.cvrda.org. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: farc anal
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 6:35pm
 As it has no trailer it could also easily be popped in a car boot to take away like this contender
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Posted By: didlydon
Date Posted: 13 Oct 09 at 7:00pm
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Errr.... Hopefully above is a pic of the boat - I've never done this before so here goes.... Anyway, Yes, you could fit a motor to it.... I know someone who did once with a bit of ingenuity... & yes, Rockhopper, it will end up on Westwood Cross roundabout if somebody cant give it a home!!
Bugger, it didn't work.... ------------- Vareo 365 |
Posted By: didlydon
Date Posted: 30 Oct 09 at 5:51pm
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UPDATEUPDATESnipe has gone to new home to be
resurrected.... See.... told you it was too good to bust up!  ------------- Vareo 365 |
Posted By: Rockhopper
Date Posted: 30 Oct 09 at 6:04pm
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Dam still think the best place would have been westwoods roundabout ------------- Retired now after 35 seasons in a row and time for a rest. 2004 national champ Laser5000 2007,2010,National Champ Rs Vareo |
Posted By: didlydon
Date Posted: 31 Oct 09 at 4:52pm
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Hi Andy. It nearly did.......... got an email from the town
council who want a boat to fill with compost & daffodils just last night, but it had just been picked up....! Ha ha! ------------- Vareo 365 |
Posted By: MerlinMags
Date Posted: 17 Nov 09 at 12:34pm
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We need a UK version of this (that works better):
http://www.woodenboatrescue.org/ - www.woodenboatrescue.org |
Posted By: Andymac
Date Posted: 17 Nov 09 at 2:27pm
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[QUOTE=MerlinMags]We need a UK version of this (that works better): I think we already have one called 'winging it' |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 17 Nov 09 at 4:33pm
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probably fair comment, though I failed to rescue a poor, homeless, unloved and abandoned hull today....some other mug outbid me! ------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 17 Nov 09 at 7:39pm
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Kind of what the cvrda forum ends up doing a lot of the time. Must take a good look at that link when I have more time. Bed time story time, now! ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |