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Athy Veteran II

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On 16/10/2021 at 12:00, MtB said:

 

 

Is that what you meant about getting wet feet standing on the side?!

Or perhaps from water gushing through the  "riveted hole".

matty40s Veteran II

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1 hour ago, roland elsdon said:

The LMS 1928 station boat done by simon , with the hb3 in her.

Ah, we moored near the lovely beast for the Winter at Bishops Meadow in 2016/7, I think it sold on again that year.

sparrowcycles Community Regular

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If it is really 15ft wide it has spread quite a bit. I've heard it might need a tiny bit of Hull work too. 

 

Would love a short boat though. 

Derek R. Veteran

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ENCELADUS is a very nice boat, from what can be seen. Front cabin could do with a bit of 'running-in', but I'd be up for it if it wasn't for resources and the fact that the cut has changed beyond what I remember of it.

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Does look pretty good, but I don't care for the photo in the Norton Canes ad, taken from the front of the engine hole, looking back. Look at the knee there. It looks blown to me, with rust pushing it off the side and it looks as though it's been cut off halfway up and not replaced after re-footing. For that money, it should be damn near perfect and it makes me wonder what the rest of the knees are like, all hidden away behind the linings.

Mind you, with all the he-man weights lying around it, I wouldn't argue!

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roland elsdon

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Or you could accept that a replica would be 150000  to build and  not have the history .

67000 or whatever plus live with the pushed knee.

 

When we bought our current boat I asked Brinklow boats about the cost of a similar replica.

Over 150000.

Even after a replated baseplate we are 90000 up. And its not a clone.

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Seems to me that if a visibly very exposed knee doesn't get treated to some remedial work, then, as I said before, I'd not care to think what the ones covered up are like. Why a knee that's in full view wasn't de-riveted, cleaned off, the rot cut out and metal renewed is the question I might ask 

And I've owned:

Canis.

Barrow.

Vulcan.

Lynx. (GUCCC)

Bilster.

Sutton.

Bath.

Bakewell.

Marcellus.

Amsterdam.

So, I do speak from bitter and costly experience with the old girls.

 

 

Tonka Veteran

Tonka

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18 hours ago, johnthebridge said:

Does look pretty good, but I don't care for the photo in the Norton Canes ad, taken from the front of the engine hole, looking back. Look at the knee there. It looks blown to me, with rust pushing it off the side and it looks as though it's been cut off halfway up and not replaced after re-footing. For that money, it should be damn near perfect and it makes me wonder what the rest of the knees are like, all hidden away behind the linings.

Mind you, with all the he-man weights lying around it, I wouldn't argue!

now says sale agreed on website

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52 minutes ago, johnthebridge said:

Seems to me that if a visibly very exposed knee doesn't get treated to some remedial work, then, as I said before, I'd not care to think what the ones covered up are like. Why a knee that's in full view wasn't de-riveted, cleaned off, the rot cut out and metal renewed is the question I might ask 

And I've owned:

Canis.

Barrow.

Vulcan.

Lynx. (GUCCC)

Bilster.

Sutton.

Bath.

Bakewell.

Marcellus.

Amsterdam.

So, I do speak from bitter and costly experience with the old girls.

 

 

Not questioning your experience in anyway. Having had 5 old boats and the current one with no doubt just such issues,  ( don’t look too close) they all were  ( are) far from perfect.

My point was simply that perfection comes at a vastly higher price than 67000! and so we reach compromises.

67000 will almost buy some quite unpleasant modern things with a multitude of issues, waiting to be uncovered

 

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sparrowcycles Community Regular

sparrowcycles

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10 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Who built welded steel open top grain barges, going by the advert...

Exactly. 

I'm no expert but I do have a keen interest in the pleasure boats of the mid 60s to mid 80s and this looks like a boat built by the West Riding boat company.. 

 

They have very distinctive stem posts

MtB Veteran II

MtB

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13 minutes ago, sparrowcycles said:

Exactly. 

I'm no expert but I do have a keen interest in the pleasure boats of the mid 60s to mid 80s and this looks like a boat built by the West Riding boat company.. 

 

They have very distinctive stem posts

 

Yes I was thinking the stem post was a strange design, but one I've seen before. The comment about it being a shallow V hull made me wonder if it was some sort of Springer but the stem post rather ruled that out....

 

But it looks a very fine example of a leisure boat from that era!

 

 

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MtB Veteran II

MtB

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6 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Ah, yes, a £40k project boat...

 

I note the advert specifies "no time wasters".

 

Always puzzles me when people put that in adverts, as it sort of implies they only want people to respond who are definitely going to buy it. Whereas my own style of buying a boat (or anything) is to want a good close look at it to assess a) whether I want to buy it at all and b ) if I want it, how much it is worth to me and what to offer. 

 

So I imagine this makes me a time waster in their eyes, and I find myself reluctant to respond to the ad in the first place.

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Athy Veteran II

Athy

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4 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

I note the advert specifies "no time wasters".

 

Always puzzles me when people put that in adverts, as it sort of implies they only want people to respond who are definitely going to buy it. Whereas my own style of buying a boat (or anything) is to want a good close look at it to assess a) whether I want to buy it at all and b ) if I want it, how much it is worth to me and what to offer. 

 

So I imagine this makes me a time waster in their eyes, and I find myself reluctant to respond to the ad in the first place.

Much depends on whose time, in the seller's opinion, is being wasted.

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