Historic Boats for sale online

[zenataomm 1426]

I remember a boat that very much looked like that one, even down to the colour scheme from the latter 60s.

It was for sale at Blue Line (first in from the bridge) and was named Captain Hodson. 

[Tim Lewis 436]

Might be worth it just for the mooring !
 

https://www.apolloduck.com/boat.phtml?id=637117

[Capella247 2]

The harbourmaster team can be quite fickle.  Also worth checking what’s going on with the redcliffe wharf redevelopment and whether that effects the moorings at all 

[BWM 438]

1 hour ago, Tim Lewis said:

Might be worth it just for the mooring !
 

https://www.apolloduck.com/boat.phtml?id=637117

Quite challenging to board, visits to the pub would need to be brief!

[junior 510]

Artisan boat builder. Wtf is that?

[frangar 1289]

Just now, junior said:

Artisan boat builder. Wtf is that?

They only use organic steel and hand reared engines....they are all the rage on the london canal scene....

[ditchcrawler 2425]

8 minutes ago, junior said:

Artisan boat builder. Wtf is that?

https://roltsboatyard.com/ looks nice

[max's son 54]

2 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

https://roltsboatyard.com/ looks nice

didn't that used to be on TV on Sunday nights

[Ray T 1292]

15 minutes ago, max's son said:

didn't that used to be on TV on Sunday nights

Jack Rolfe played by Glyn Owen in Howard's Way.

The boatyard was The Mermaid.

Howards' Way - Wikipedia

[Paul H 40]

Cut down Severner “Fir”

 

https://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/narrow-boats-traditional-for-sale/655585

 

Price seems a tad optimistic!

[David Mack 1951]

25 minutes ago, Paul H said:

Cut down Severner “Fir”

 

https://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/narrow-boats-traditional-for-sale/655585

 

Price seems a tad optimistic!

Might be a genuine 1930s build, but being fully welded, doesn't look it. Does that reduce any 'historic' premium?

No photos of engine or engine room, and only one of the bathroom (which has a shower but apparently no toilet), so you can't see how it relates to the rest of the boat. Recently painted but very bland exterior. 

That said, it does look well cared for and nicely turned out. But £125k?? I would have thought you would struggle to get much more than half that.

[Mike Tee 325]

4 minutes ago, David Mack said:

I would have thought you would struggle to get much more than half that.

That was my first thought - so waited to see if I was the only one!!

[matty40s 4387]

Newly painted with Craftsmaster paint...

Struggling to work out which one is the latest photo....maybe the single colour all over??

If so, not particularly well turned out at all to be honest, very basic and not reflecting any history.

 

I think this one was the old paint job.

[Paul H 40]

I went to see Fir in 1995 but it was too much money - £40K iirc.  It had a very interesting  set up with the engine offset to one side of the engine room using a carden shaft running under the bed hole and table cupboard to the prop.  This meant that it was much easier to walk through the engine room and you had full headroom in the back cabin.  I’m not sure if this is a unique installation or what power losses there might be but it seemed pretty neat to me.

[David Schweizer 934]

7 minutes ago, Paul H said:

I went to see Fir in 1995 but it was too much money - £40K iirc.  It had a very interesting  set up with the engine offset to one side of the engine room using a carden shaft running under the bed hole and table cupboard to the prop.  This meant that it was much easier to walk through the engine room and you had full headroom in the back cabin.  I’m not sure if this is a unique installation or what power losses there might be but it seemed pretty neat to me.

No several builders have done that in the past including Colecraft, although I believe they used Hardy Spicers. The setup worked well, but it tended to rumble a bit, maybe Cardens operate more smoothly. I believe that hydraulic power for off set engines is the preferred option these days

[billybobbooth 78]

56 minutes ago, David Mack said:

Might be a genuine 1930s build, but being fully welded, doesn't look it. Does that reduce any 'historic' premium?

No photos of engine or engine room, and only one of the bathroom (which has a shower but apparently no toilet), so you can't see how it relates to the rest of the boat. Recently painted but very bland exterior. 

That said, it does look well cared for and nicely turned out. But £125k?? I would have thought you would struggle to get much more than half that.

Severners were fully welded, the bow looks right, no pice of the sturn so unable to tell if they cut the middle or the sturn, can tell its old as the plates are all bent between the knees. traditionaly they had the cabins the otherwise round had engine at back and beds / cabin in front.

 

Seam a tad high priced although I remember a josher (beginning with s) with full conversion being for sale at over 100k think was 120k. And Chiswick a few years ago was at 80+k when advertised

Edited January 18 by billybobbooth

[David Mack 1951]

2 hours ago, billybobbooth said:

Severners were fully welded, the bow looks right, no pice of the sturn so unable to tell if they cut the middle or the sturn, can tell its old as the plates are all bent between the knees. traditionaly they had the cabins the otherwise round had engine at back and beds / cabin in front.

 

Seam a tad high priced although I remember a josher (beginning with s) with full conversion being for sale at over 100k think was 120k. And Chiswick a few years ago was at 80+k when advertised

The ad says

"1963 she was sold again to Wyvern Shipping and was cut down to 55ft (two boats would often be cut down to make a third). Fir was restored by Duncan Knapp boat fitter at Cowroast Marina and sold to us in 1995"

I'm familiar with butties being cut in half to make two pleasure boats, but I've never come across reference to making 3 boats from 2.

Being built as a motor and already having a motor stern, it is perhaps more likely Fir had a few feet chopped out of the middle, and retained it's original stern.

It's not clear if the 1990s 'restoration' involved the construction of the current cabin and tug deck or if it also included a new stern.

[max's son 54]

Fir was renamed as Bridget, photographed in the 60's in Worcester

[billybobbooth 78]

33 minutes ago, max's son said:

Fir was renamed as Bridget, photographed in the 60's in Worcester

It looks like a sevener cabin and Swan neck.

[magnetman 481]

3 hours ago, billybobbooth said:

, can tell its old as the plates are all bent between the knees. 

The starved dog look. 

 

Edited January 18 by magnetman

[max's son 54]

21 minutes ago, billybobbooth said:

It looks like a sevener cabin and Swan neck.

Bridget is Severner Fir when owned by Charlie Ballinger the boat #8260

[BWM 438]

Were they really built with 8mm sides and 6mm baseplate of iron? 

 There is no way i would consider an iron boat that had been overplated with steel for even half that price!

[David Mack 1951]

19 minutes ago, BWM said:

Were they really built with 8mm sides and 6mm baseplate of iron? 

 

Wrought iron with elm bottoms according to https://hnbc.org.uk/boats/willow.

[furnessvale 1992]

26 minutes ago, BWM said:

Were they really built with 8mm sides and 6mm baseplate of iron? 

 There is no way i would consider an iron boat that had been overplated with steel for even half that price!

Overplating any boat is not good, but a competent welder can let steel plates into an iron hull, and replace a wood bottom with steel, welded to the iron sides.

[BWM 438]

4 minutes ago, furnessvale said:

Overplating any boat is not good, but a competent welder can let steel plates into an iron hull, and replace a wood bottom with steel, welded to the iron sides.

The advert specifically said overplating to the sides, re plating would be the standard i would want.