Historic Boats for sale online

[alan_fincher]

I do feel that the market for unconverted "historics" is a bit in the doldrums at the moment.

I would also have have expected more "standard" offering like "Birmingham" to have found new a new owner by now.

[pete harrison]

2 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

I do feel that the market for unconverted "historics" is a bit in the doldrums at the moment.

I would also have have expected more "standard" offering like "Birmingham" to have found new a new owner by now.

HAMPSTEAD has sold though, being taken away by its new owner about two weeks ago 

[alan_fincher]

7 minutes ago, pete harrison said:

HAMPSTEAD has sold though, being taken away by its new owner about two weeks ago 

Yes, and  "Dodona" (front of) seems to be in new hands as well.

[Jrtm]

1 hour ago, pete harrison said:

TYCHO

 

https://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/yarwoods-45-tug/473783

keep coming down! what a boat, one of the few on my list, only thing I dont like is the blue tops. but love she still has the ram. but it's still too high for me

[BWM]

On 10/08/2019 at 00:28, zenataomm said:

Nice looking boat, I've always admired her.

For that price I'd expect to be reading  about new bottoms/footings or uxter plate.

And whoever thought that sawing a tractor tyre in half and fighting it so it fitted down over the stem post would be a sensible and attractive addition!? Beats me.

Was it this boat that had a broken stem post?

[Admiral]

53 minutes ago, BWM said:

Was it this boat that had a broken stem post?

It hit a lock wall in either Brentford or Limehouse and did some damage. I think it was all repaired properly though.

[Jrtm]

8 hours ago, Admiral said:

It hit a lock wall in either Brentford or Limehouse and did some damage. I think it was all repaired properly though.

I know her back end was thin as once on a trip to the port it sprung a leak and when repairing the hole was getting bigger and bigger

[mark99]

Listen - can you hear Derek counting up his money? 

[pete harrison]

21 hours ago, billybobbooth said:

keep coming down! what a boat, one of the few on my list, only thing I dont like is the blue tops. but love she still has the ram. but it's still too high for me

Your list of a few seems to be getting bigger all the time, not mention more metallic as well.

 

If I had been successful with my offer for TYCHO then my intent was to replace the blue tops with a deck, so returning it to a fully decked icebreaking tug - but whether I would have gone back to the wooden deck I am not sure. I would also have refitted the table cupboard and bed'ole as I am not keen on the day boat look. 

 

I am more than happy with how this all worked out as I have a different boat now, and one I can still make my mark on, so I wish the seller TYCHO and the future owner all the best 

[Jrtm]

not really my list normslly only gets shorter a boats sell and get changed, but the odd boat that's out there brakes my normal boat feelings or wants tycho being one.

 

my normal list is unconverted or very little convertion (bits that just lift out with no real care needed e.g. lift out a table ect) with wood where wood should be, same material bottom, good copy of the cabin (unless its original the if replaced copied). or if still working or been retired reasontly as is. but I also like something diffrent or indervidual, ben, tycho, sharpness, birchills (tug)

[Derek R.]

14 hours ago, mark99 said:

Listen - can you hear Derek counting up his money? 

Stop it . . . . I'm trying to count.

 

No chance I'm afraid. Nice to see the Larbert fitted though.

I do wonder if when used as a maintenance/ice boat that the original table cupboard and cross bed would have simply been left in situ. TYCHO would have been just six years old and fitted with all the usual fittings. I cannot see any advantage in removing such fittings when all that was required was a shortened boat and re-inforced fore end. At a time when we were at war, the provision would have been to get the job done as quiclkly as possible without faffing about removing said fittings, I feel pretty certain they would have been left as was. But this is 78yrs later.

 

Maybe I should build a model of TYCHO - as she was in 1999. No mooring fees, no insurance, no CoC, no anglers. No boating either, but even that has changed.

[pete harrison]

BOURNEMOUTH 

 

https://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/harland-and-wolff/615864

[zenataomm]

Hmmm … looks like she's carrying a cargo of cabin sides, roof and windows, can't see any other photos to suggest there's owt else in there.

[alan_fincher]

2 hours ago, pete harrison said:

BOURNEMOUTH 

 

https://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/harland-and-wolff/615864

Remind us what the asking price was the last time around?

 

It doesn't sound a lot for a converted boat - I wonder what we are not being told!

[MtB]

59 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

Remind us what the asking price was the last time around?

 

It doesn't sound a lot for a converted boat - I wonder what we are not being told!

 

Well for a start the calorifier needs an expansion vessel and other stuff doing. Owners had me look at it a few years ago, I ordered the parts then they failed to respond to my calls to say parts now in stock. 

 

Might not be the current owners to be fair. 

 

Isn't this one that Malcolm Braine messed about with the counter on, to reduce the draft? No solid fuel stove and far too many windows. Good boat and nice engine otherwise. 

 

 

[cheshire~rose]

5 hours ago, alan_fincher said:

Remind us what the asking price was the last time around?

 

It doesn't sound a lot for a converted boat - I wonder what we are not being told!

We are not being told very much at all. I still wonder at people who go to the bother of advertising a boat without giving more information and sharing more photos. It is being sold as being suitable to live aboard (for a family) but how many and what configuration of berths are there. Mike has told us there is no soild fuel stove but otherwise we wouldn't have a clue. It always seems such a waste of effort to advertise something with such a lack of information.

[BWM]

5 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Well for a start the calorifier needs an expansion vessel and other stuff doing. Owners had me look at it a few years ago, I ordered the parts then they failed to respond to my calls to say parts now in stock. 

 

Might not be the current owners to be fair. 

 

Isn't this one that Malcolm Braine messed about with the counter on, to reduce the draft? No solid fuel stove and far too many windows. Good boat and nice engine otherwise. 

 

 

I may be mistaken but i was under the impression that the entire hull had been reduced in height by cutting the bottom few inches off?

[Jrtm]

9 minutes ago, BWM said:

I may be mistaken but i was under the impression that the entire hull had been reduced in height by cutting the bottom few inches off?

dont let any high members of CRT find out they will want us all to do this

[David Mack]

11 minutes ago, BWM said:

I may be mistaken but i was under the impression that the entire hull had been reduced in height by cutting the bottom few inches off?

Thought it was the other eay round - a second counter had been added below the uxter plate to allow the stern to float higher in the water.  And presumably reduce the maximum prop size.

[MtB]

2 hours ago, David Mack said:

Thought it was the other eay round - a second counter had been added below the uxter plate to allow the stern to float higher in the water.  And presumably reduce the maximum prop size.

 

Ah that's what I was thinking of. Boat does look unnaturally high in the water IIRC.

 

Big project to put it back to original. Might be why it is cheap. 

 

 

[pete harrison]

20 hours ago, alan_fincher said:

Remind us what the asking price was the last time around?

 

It doesn't sound a lot for a converted boat - I wonder what we are not being told!

The last advertised price I have was £48000 in May 2014, and a year earlier it was £50000 - but I do not know how much it sold for 

[alan_fincher]

3 minutes ago, pete harrison said:

The last advertised price I have was £48000 in May 2014, and a year earlier it was £50000 - but I do not know how much it sold for 

Thanks!

Those numbers are what I thought I remembered.

£35,000 now?

I wonder how much is a downturn in prices generally, or wat the issue(s) could be with this particular boat.

[zenataomm]

If it's not something to do with this particular boat, then it's also a big coincidence that the advert shows nothing, zilch, nada.

 

[MtB]

8 minutes ago, zenataomm said:

If it's not something to do with this particular boat, then it's also a big coincidence that the advert shows nothing, zilch, nada.

 

 

I too thought the advert disappointingly sketchy.

 

 

[roland elsdon]

Its the new pc advertising. Means you cant be sued for false representation.

’ Large Woolwich child friendly’

Everything else is open to litigation.