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Each week I like to find a different boat for sale that I would immediately hand over a large cheque for, if I won the lottery.

 

Only a modest win, of course. If I dropped the big one I'd buy a boatyard and build my own.

 

I then spend the week drooling over the boat selected while Swmbo makes the same point over and over again...."Why select a lottery boat if you never buy a ticket."

 

Women just don't understand boat porn. I might look but I would never be unfaithful, to the lifeboat.

 

This weeks boat is:

 

Clicky

 

A beautiful spacious Broads Cruiser (Though I've just spotted a sexy Fairey Super Swordsman, on B&O. Even the name is pornographic)

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Each week I like to find a different boat for sale that I would immediately hand over a large cheque for, if I won the lottery.

 

Would you consider inspection launch "Kingfisher" asking for offers in this months Waterways World?

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Each week I like to find a different boat for sale that I would immediately hand over a large cheque for, if I won the lottery.

 

Only a modest win, of course. If I dropped the big one I'd buy a boatyard and build my own.

 

I then spend the week drooling over the boat selected while Swmbo makes the same point over and over again...."Why select a lottery boat if you never buy a ticket."

 

Women just don't understand boat porn. I might look but I would never be unfaithful, to the lifeboat.

 

This weeks boat is:

 

Clicky

 

A beautiful spacious Broads Cruiser (Though I've just spotted a sexy Fairey Super Swordsman, on B&O. Even the name is pornographic)

 

It is pretty, but not much of a lottery boat. :lol:

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It is pretty, but not much of a lottery boat. :lol:

As I said, If I dropped the big win then I would be building my own boat, in my own boatyard, almost certainly abroad.

 

I limit myself to a £100k win. The big one is on the drawing board.

 

That's a beautiful boat - a shame the owner is so paranoid about taking it out he has ruined its elegant lines with all those fenders.

I actually think leaving fenders down is bad for the paintwork and certainly no help if a hire boat broadsides you.

 

Would you consider inspection launch "Kingfisher" asking for offers in this months Waterways World?

Oh yes!

 

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(Photo pinched from "Narrowboat Chalice" blog Clicky but I'll remove and replace with an inferior shot, if necessary)

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Women just don't understand boat porn. I might look but I would never be unfaithful, to the lifeboat.

 

Val understands boat porn, and bike porn and (for me) guitar porn!

 

Not sure whether lifeboats actually burst into tears or throw hissy fits if you oggle another boat though, or even sleep on one. A bloke I knew, talking about looking at other women, compared it to looking at the menu after you'd ordered the meal, just seeing what you could have had.

 

Mind you, he has changed girlfriend recently!

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I would buy this one, just because it was built for my local Canal and I would love to own a piece of local history

 

http://barges.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=97145

 

 

was about to say 'you beautiful geek' but had a looksee too and would choose this 'un over any others mentioned thus far... no offence to anyone else like! :lol:

K xxx

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Snow Goose is a beauty, and well known on the Broads.

 

Not my cup of tea really (not enough flappy bits and pieces of string to pull), but along with many others I'm hoping she stays on the Broads, so we can continue to admire her.

 

A brief pondering of the River Cruiser Class for sale listings shows one of my favourite boats is up for sale, and her ~£60k price tag definitely puts her in lottery territory: Moonshadow, further particulars (no pictures though). Having said that, she's a serious racing machine (and the River Cruiser Class definitely take their racing seriously), and I'm more of a gentle cruising kind of chap, so perhaps she's not right for me after all. This one, from Jack Powles of Wroxham would be more like what I'm after, especially as she's got a varnished rather than painted hull (yes that is a hell of a lot of work, but there's nothing on this planet as beautiful as a varnished mahogany Broads yacht, at least IMHO).

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was about to say 'you beautiful geek' but had a looksee too and would choose this 'un over any others mentioned thus far... no offence to anyone else like! :lol:

K xxx

Last of the Manvers size keels.

 

Very nice indeed but would be nicer deconverted.

 

Keels are being cut up at an alarming rate because they just don't get the same rspect as narrow boats, despite being proper seaworthy ships.

 

I think it is such a shame that people go over to Holland, to bring back Dutch Barges, for conversion, when there are much nicer boats, being scrapped, in Yorkshire.

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maybe be of interest to some ..

 

Old Thames tosher ( 6k )

~ http://houseboats.apolloduck.co.uk/display.phtml?aid=140267 ~

 

River Lee Lighter ( 22k ) .. unpowered .. ( 55' by 14'.5 )

~ http://houseboats.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=139768 ~

( which end is which on that one ?? .. )

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good luck with this weeks tickets all :-)

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That's a beautiful boat - a shame the owner is so paranoid about taking it out he has ruined its elegant lines with all those fenders.

 

If its boat porn we're talking about here then try to see them more as tits than fenders (well ive been with a few women and you cant tell the bloody difference to be honest)

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maybe be of interest to some ..

 

Old Thames tosher ( 6k )

~ http://houseboats.apolloduck.co.uk/display.phtml?aid=140267 ~

 

River Lee Lighter ( 22k ) .. unpowered .. ( 55' by 14'.5 )

~ http://houseboats.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=139768 ~

( which end is which on that one ?? .. )

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good luck with this weeks tickets all :-)

 

I know where there is one of those old Toshers being restored now. Its about 100 yards away from my widebeam in Wakefield. When it came in it was like a sieve, all holes, but it is being restored , albeit slowly.

 

Last of the Manvers size keels.

 

Very nice indeed but would be nicer deconverted.

 

Keels are being cut up at an alarming rate because they just don't get the same rspect as narrow boats, despite being proper seaworthy ships.

 

I think it is such a shame that people go over to Holland, to bring back Dutch Barges, for conversion, when there are much nicer boats, being scrapped, in Yorkshire.

 

Carl , she is a lovely boat, could be a bit better inside, but I have passed her a few times and I WANT HER, cant afford her though, but I will just go and check my tickets now !!!

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hyskeirIIb.jpg

 

Built by James A. Silver Ltd of Rosneath in 1948. Hull construction is of Mahogany and Pitch Pine planking on Oak frames with Oak bulkheads and stringers.

Decks are teak laid on Pitch Pine deck beams; the wheel house is of Teak. She currently has three berths but could easily accommodate six.

 

She is still fitted with her original 4-cylinder Gleniffer 48hp air-start diesel engines.

 

Not really a wood enthusiast but this caught my eye.

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That's a beautiful boat - a shame the owner is so paranoid about taking it out he has ruined its elegant lines with all those fenders.

 

Trust me, here on the Northern Broads you need plenty of fenders when the Terrorist season is here.

I know Snow Goose and although quite pretty there are much better boats to be had for the money. Did anyone notice that she has no heating, a free standing Calor fire appears in one pic.

 

Phil

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Trust me, here on the Northern Broads you need plenty of fenders when the Terrorist season is here.

 

Phil

 

and to fend off the locals in their plastic gin palaces who think they own the bloody river..... :lol::lol:

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and to fend off the locals in their plastic gin palaces who think they own the bloody river..... :lol::lol:

 

Er um, I am local and my boat is plastic, but deffo not a gin palace. Anyway I have not got the ability to perform the "glare of disdain" which is required of such boats skippers.

 

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Anyway I have not got the ability to perform the "glare of disdain" which is required of such boats skippers.

 

Yep - I've seen that one as I slipped past in my lowly hire boat(s) - it must take some perfecting.

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in at 115k .. .. ex RAF rescue boat .. twin perkins ..

 

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~ http://houseboats.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=142514 ~

 

the wheelhouse decor :-))) .. red sofa 'n keyboard ..

 

There is an ex RAF rescue launch at Osney Mill Marina, Oxford on the hardstanding. Been there for years, owner last wanted £5k in 2003ish. Metal hull and superstructure and in serious need of restoration and rebuild.

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**** There is an ex RAF rescue launch at Osney Mill Marina, Oxford on the hardstanding. Been there for years, owner last wanted £5k in 2003ish. Metal hull and superstructure and in serious need of restoration and rebuild. ****

 

'image' googling .. 'raf rescue launch' brings up a whole array of craft :-)

that look very expensive to run ..

be another similar one at duck boats .. has triple engine layout .. about 70' length ..

( be one pic of a laminate wood hull under restoration

( looks quite work intensive ..

 

a closer look at that 115k job .. i.e the larger pics ..

for me .. the interior would need totaly ripping out ..

including the wheelhouse floor ..

wonder when that vessel last saw anything resembling a wave ..

 

nah .. if i did make a big big lotto win ..

i'd be on the way to holland pronto ..

for a discussion with mr. cornelissen and co. about designing a one-off ..

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