hi mike,
that's the thing I don't know, I know my brother has said he doesn't want to live on it but he wants to 'finish' as terry would have wanted as he's feeling guilty how estranged they got over his last years especially when they had not long re-established contact.On the other hand, although I could really do with moving out of where I am at the moment if it works out financely but am not sure if I could go straight into cc'ing as it has been many years since I last lived on a boat as a teenager and I don't believe the boat we lived on ever moved and just from asking/looking around I know that finding a non-leisure mooring is hard what with not be able too far from Bradford on avon for work ect and the boat being 64'. there has also been the idae of keeping it for leisure use which is an good idea as I could get used to being on a boat again while waiting for a morring ect.
What i'd idealy like to do is have a survey done first to find out if there are any major problems and get a value for the boat as is;
1. so that if there is anything thats major we can look at how long its likely goin to take to do her up as my brother works full time so will esently only have weeknds and holidays. I'm expecting it to be quit a bit of work even if there aren't any major problems as half the inslation is missing,and there's rust on the inside, the roofs leaking ot a couple of the glass dome spots so the interia celing and insulation has to come out not to mention the missing kitchen and bathroom.
2.because at the moment we've no idea of how much to look for if we did go down the root of seeling it. although friends of terry's have said we'd probly only get between 6-10 thousand for it as is.
3. so that if there is a lot of work thats more than just cosmetic and not worth our time and money to do up, it might be easier to perswade my brother if we have it in black and white as they say.
The other reason i'm looking to get it on to hard standing sooner rather than later is Terry was rather naughty aparently with regards to adhearing to the cc rules and as he died sudenly we are unsure at this point if he managed to get his licence for this year before he died. Although we were certen we had found this years licence in his very limited paperwork. with haveingto get probate there's nothing crt can do at the moment but once it's sorted is another matter and i think i'd rather have it out of the water rather than paying for a licence we might not use in the end
thanks for the condolences, but we were many years estranged.
I will have to give them a call thanks