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Thanks to everyone for their comments. Kevin spoke with a guy called Adrian (don't know his surname) who re-builds wooden boats commercially and he gave lots of info about the probable state of the boat having seen it a few years back. Kevin bought and refurbished Electra from a semi sunken state a number of years ago, had to sell her through circumstances, and realised that he couldn't be boatless any more - hence the plunge (hopefully not literally) We are going to visit Adrian shortly - he has a wooden boat in pieces at the moment and we thought that would be a good starting point. Kevin is a cabinet maker in trade so will do as much of the work as possible himself to return Ian to as close to the original state as possible. We are going to put a piece into the HNBC magazine with a view to meeting and maybe getting help from other wooden boat owners/enthusiasts who have been there and done that. So please keep commenting! Thanks, Kevin and Sarah Also, many thanks for all the messages of welcome.

Hello, We have recently purchased Ian, and are keen to find out as much information about her as possible. So if you have old photos, press clippings, memories or anything else that can help we would love to hear from you. The back cabin is still intact with the original scumballing and painting, and we would like to furnish it as it was originally furnished so if you have any old photos of the back cabin that would be fantastic. Thanks, Kevin and Sarah