Historic Boats for sale online

[pete harrison]

On 08/01/2018 at 12:44, matty40s said:

https://www.apolloduck.com/boat.phtml?id=535184

 

not quite historic but an interesting Lorenz Bros vessel

 

On 09/01/2018 at 00:33, greywolf said:

gone already or certainly delisted

 

On 09/01/2018 at 13:38, matty40s said:

that must have been 6 hours on appalling duck maximum......

wonder if they have a green Gardner for sale too

 

22 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:

Was that the half size L&L boat? If so it was listed a few weeks ago originally.

JP

Not historic, and not my ideal boat - but it is back on Apollo Duck

http://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat.phtml?id=535184

[alan_fincher]

46 minutes ago, pete harrison said:

Not historic, and not my ideal boat - but it is back on Apollo Duck

http://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat.phtml?id=535184

I can't really justify why it has that effect on me, the paint job, I suppose, but I keep thinking Rosie & Jim!

[matty40s]

20 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

I can't really justify why it has that effect on me, the paint job, I suppose, but I keep thinking Rosie & Jim!

It's  an industrial version of Clarrie. 

[Ray T]

1 hour ago, alan_fincher said:

I can't really justify why it has that effect on me, the paint job, I suppose, but I keep thinking Rosie & Jim!

This:

Or this?

Edited January 10, 2018 by Ray T

[Jrtm]

On 10/01/2018 at 19:43, Ray T said:

This:

Or this?

Funny enough i was thinking of ragdoll a few days ago wondering what happened to it i saw it years ago at the Newbery rally we went to god that must have been nearly 20 years ago

[David Schweizer]

On 09/01/2018 at 16:45, alan_fincher said:

My view is that if any narrow boat, (historic or otherwise) is openly offered for sale for quite a few months without either achieving a sale or the price changing then either it was priced too optimistically in the first place, or the owner is in no rush to sell.

There are several converted historics that have remained advertised at the same price for long periods of time, but our own experiences were that there are so few that come to market, and most of the others sell very quickly indeed.

That said I have not personally looked over any of the non sellers in any detail, so other than looking at adverts it is hard to comment further on what a more realistic valuation might be in each case.

More than one person made that observation when we were selling Helvetia, quite unjustifiably. When we moved it to a broker who actually put some effort into selling, it sold within a couple of weeks for more or less the original asking price.

[Admiral]

Sort of a historic boat!!

Narrow Boat

[alan_fincher]

52 minutes ago, Admiral said:

Sort of a historic boat!!

Narrow Boat

How much?

[Athy]

15 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

How much?

Well, a rough mental calculation suggests that it's about nine feet long, so it's more than just a bathtime toy unless one has a larger-than-average bath. I assume it's radio controlled, though he doesn't say so (unless I missed that bit).

[David Schweizer]

27 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

How much?

Given how many hours it would have taken to make, it is probably a good price. I suspect that a museum model would cost significantly more to make.

[alan_fincher]

15 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:

Given how many hours it would have taken to make, it is probably a good price. I suspect that a museum model would cost significantly more to make.

I'm surprised that anybody hoping to sell something like that for quite as much money hasn't invested greater effort in the advert.

Yes the "RC" presumably says it is a radio controlled working model, but no detail of how powered, how controlled and what capabilities.

And do some of the photos really need to show it apparently lodged between filled black plastic rubbish sacks?

[Athy]

2 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

Yes the "RC" presumably says it is a radio controlled working model, but no detail of how powered, how controlled and what capabilities.

 

Well spotted, I had missed that reference, though I guess that anyone involved with radio-controlled models would have understood it.

[Dave_P]

58 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

How much?

I'm aware of a functioning steel 40' narrowboat selling for that price about 3 years ago.

[David Mack]

55 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

but no detail of how powered

1/8 scale Bolinder I hope!

[Jrtm]

2 hours ago, David Schweizer said:

Given how many hours it would have taken to make, it is probably a good price. I suspect that a museum model would cost significantly more to make.

I should think the actual boat at the current state would cost more that 8x this amount, given its JUST THE steel hull thats currently togeather mostly.

I guess this model is in beeter condition than the real one!

[matty40s]

1 hour ago, alan_fincher said:

And do some of the photos really need to show it apparently lodged between filled black plastic rubbish sacks?

Fenders Alan, fenders.

[MtB]

7 hours ago, alan_fincher said:

How much?

 

Given the size of it I think the price is very reasonable. especially compared to other similar sized RC boats on ebay.

A couple of odd things though. I had to click through three links saying the boat had been re-listed before getting to the current listing, and the ebay site selling it is ebay.ca. Anyone know which country that is? I wonder why it is not being sold on ebay.co.uk. All looks a bit fishy to me.

And I can't see on the listing what the hull is made from. Is it steel or wood?

 

[Athy]

6 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

 

 the ebay site selling it is ebay.ca. Anyone know which country that is?

 

Yes: Canada  (as I'm sure you guessed!)

[carlt]

9 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

.....and the ebay site selling it is ebay.ca. Anyone know which country that is? I wonder why it is not being sold on ebay.co.uk. All looks a bit fishy to me.

 

It is being sold on ebay.co.uk....https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-LARGE-RC-NARROW-BOAT/222792457512?hash=item33df771d28:g:KMsAAOSwCJxaMC7f

If you search ebay.ca for it it comes up as an international item.

https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X.TRS0&_nkw=VERY+LARGE+RC+NARROW+BOAT&_sacat=0

[MtB]

29 minutes ago, carlt said:

It is being sold on ebay.co.uk....https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-LARGE-RC-NARROW-BOAT/222792457512?hash=item33df771d28:g:KMsAAOSwCJxaMC7f

If you search ebay.ca for it it comes up as an international item.

https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X.TRS0&_nkw=VERY+LARGE+RC+NARROW+BOAT&_sacat=0

 

The original link (see post post 5363) is to ebay.ca.

[Athy]

The item's location, however, is given as Callington, which is in the West Country (which I know only because a West Country Class steam locomotive bore that name).

[MtB]

23 minutes ago, Athy said:

The item's location, however, is given as Callington, which is in the West Country (which I know only because a West Country Class steam locomotive bore that name).

 

I know. Which is why I commented on on how odd it was for the listing to be on a foreign ebay site!

Getting rather circular here. 

Out of interest, does anyone know which country .ca domain names are for?

[RLWP]

6 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

I know. Which is why I commented on on how odd it was for the listing to be on a foreign ebay site!

Getting rather circular here. 

It's on the Australian Ebay too:

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.TRS0&_nkw=222792457512&_sacat=0

because all Ebay sites are linked. As Carl pointed out, it's an item on the UK Ebay site, it's an International item on all the others

Richard

 

MORE: Just for fun, Italy: https://www.ebay.it/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X.TRS0&_nkw=222792457512&_sacat=0

Edited January 17, 2018 by RLWP

[Athy]

9 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

I know. Which is why I commented on on how odd it was for the listing to be on a foreign ebay site!

Getting rather circular here. 

Out of interest, does anyone know which country .ca domain names are for?

Yes, and I told you in post no. 5374 on the previous page.

[carlt]

42 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

The original link (see post post 5363) is to ebay.ca.

If you go to Ebay France and search for it the link will come up as ebay.fr