How Old is your Boat

[gralyn]

What the the start date for a boats age?

1. Base plate first laid down.

2. Completion of shell.

3. Completion of Fit out.

4. Date the boat was firts placed in the water.

5. Date the boat was first registered with the Navigation Authority.

 

From what I have read there can be several years between each of the above. So what is a boat's birthday?.

[Chris-B]

What the the start date for a boats age?

1. Base plate first laid down.

2. Completion of shell.

3. Completion of Fit out.

4. Date the boat was firts placed in the water.

5. Date the boat was first registered with the Navigation Authority.

 

From what I have read there can be several years between each of the above. So what is a boat's birthday?.

 

Baldock was Registered for Accomodation purposes on 31st Dec 1936 at Coventry we take that as the *birthday*

mind you we also know she came out of Harland and Woolfs yard well before that and had cargo on the way to Coventry

[Gary Peacock]

The date in the CIN number these days.

[Tomska]

She's 95 years old, bless 'er.

[BlueStringPudding]

Ours is registered to being built in 1998, however it was comissioned in 1997. Both dates appear on different bits of paperwork.

[carlt]

I've always gone on launch date, being lucky enough to have mainly had boats that were launched, rather than craned in.

 

I've been unable to establish the lifeboat's launch date (though I'm waiting for the RNLI to provide details of commission, launch and shout dates.) so, at the moment I have taken her 'birthday' as date entered service.

[NB Willawaw]

Just for comparison, ships have a keel laid date, a launch date and the date they are handed over to their owners by the shipyard. This is usually directly connected to large stage payments.

Not that different to narrowboats except a medium sized bulk carrier costs USD35m

[Chris Lingwood]

197somthing I'm told. Although she's been lengthened at some point so the front and back are about 30..the middle is...maybe 10...goodness knows! Oh and she was gutted not so long ago, you decide!