Now up to £127K!

[David Mack]

To be fair, since that last advert they appear to have fabricated and fitted a front slide - see photo at the start of this thread.

That'll be why the price has gone up from £114,250 to £127,000 then!

[Heffalump]

"Hi Jim

Thank you for your email.
I have already customer from Holland.
He is interesting to buy ecological boat, because Holland is very clean Country.
If from any reason I will not sell the boat, I will contact you."

 

He'll take his Dutch barge style polish boat to the Netherlands and it will fit right in I'm sure!

Edited August 10, 2015 by Heffalump

[Woodstock]

"Hi Jim

Thank you for your email.I have already customer from Holland.He is interesting to buy ecological boat, because Holland is very clean Country. If from any reason I will not sell the boat, I will contact you."

 

He'll take his Dutch barge style polish boat to the Netherlands and it will fit right in I'm sure!

Damn - missed my chance then......

[mark99]

"Hi Jim

Thank you for your email.

I have already customer from Holland.

He is interesting to buy ecological boat, because Holland is very clean Country.

If from any reason I will not sell the boat, I will contact you."

 

He'll take his Dutch barge style polish boat to the Netherlands and it will fit right in I'm sure!

 

 

Same reply I got.

 

I even had a name for her. "Gatelifter".

Edited August 10, 2015 by mark99

[zenataomm]

I refuse to even consider this boat until the price gets around £160K

[Graham Davis]

"Hi Jim

Thank you for your email.

I have already customer from Holland.

He is interesting to buy ecological boat, because Holland is very clean Country.

If from any reason I will not sell the boat, I will contact you."

 

He'll take his Dutch barge style polish boat to the Netherlands and it will fit right in I'm sure!

 

I expect it will be back on Ebay, "Due to time wasters" for a greater amount soon!

[Dharl]

How much would a 45ft Steel boat be worth in scrap value....?

[Emerald Fox]

It would have gone at once if it had the 'rusted look' (see the Auto Trader thread)

[StephenA]

Hokey Cokey .....

 

So we've got 45 ft of boat built with high quality steel;12mm bottom and front, and Sides of 10mm and 8 mm.

 

Do we know if they're selling tickets to watch what happens when the "U" profile they've used as a stem post gets stabbed into a lock gate going up?

If they're running a book at what angle the front will get ripped off I'll have a fiver on "deformed at 8 degrees" and a tenner on "completely ripped off 18 degrees"

 

There's a vertical weld in the bow right where the rubbing strake ends.....

[Dalslandia]

I quite like it...

 

Just kidding! (Can't stand narrow boats!)

 

Joke!

 

It is not a narrowboat, it is a Dutch Barge, a rare one. :-)

[mayalld]

 

It is not a narrowboat, it is a Dutch Barge, a rare one. :-)

Well it certainly isn't well done.

[matty40s]

Wonder where it was photographed

from the towpath.

[Dalslandia]

Well it certainly isn't well done.

it is a narrowminded built Dutch barge

[TheBiscuits]

How much would a 45ft Steel boat be worth in scrap value....?

Rarely enough to pay for the acetylene and oxygen required to fit it in the scrappies skips.

 

Around £400 last time we checked.

 

End fur spelink

Edited August 10, 2015 by TheBiscuits

[RLWP]

There's a vertical weld in the bow right where the rubbing strake ends.....

You could easily build a replica of this boat. Take an ordinary old boat, extend the cabin and weld on a pointy front.

 

Of course, if you did, you'd probably find the handrails were too short, and you'd have a vertical weld where the new bow met the old hull

 

Richard

[zenataomm]

You could easily build a replica of this boat. Take an ordinary old boat, extend the cabin and weld on a pointy front.

 

Of course, if you did, you'd probably find the handrails were too short, and you'd have a vertical weld where the new bow met the old hull

 

Richard

 

By George I think he's got it!

[Laurie Booth]

You could easily build a replica of this boat. Take an ordinary old boat, extend the cabin and weld on a pointy front.

 

Of course, if you did, you'd probably find the handrails were too short, and you'd have a vertical weld where the new bow met the old hull

 

Richard

But you would upset the builder of the boat by copying their design.

[MtB]

And where would you put the "KITCHEN - full size like at home"?

 

I've asked twice where I can view this "boat" and they have refused to tell me where it is.

 

 

That's odd, because the advert ends with an invitation to view it.

 

"FOR MORE INFO AND TO VIEW PLEASE CALL ME

074 ## ### ###"

Edited August 13, 2015 by DHutch
Phone number obfuscated by request.

[Graham Davis]

Mike,

The first time I asked I was told that I only wanted to copy their design and that she wouldn't allow that. I think someone else got a similar response.

[boathunter]

You could easily build a replica of this boat. Take an ordinary old boat, extend the cabin and weld on a pointy front.

 

Of course, if you did, you'd probably find the handrails were too short, and you'd have a vertical weld where the new bow met the old hull

 

Richard

And make a new top because the original was horribly warped in a fire...

[Scholar Gypsy]

Those unprotected edges would do you a mischief if you fell on them...

[Scholar Gypsy]

can someone explain what 3D floor tiles are? I think I prefer 2 dimensional ones myself.

Edited August 11, 2015 by Scholar Gypsy

[BruceinSanity]

can someone explain what 3D floor tiles are? I think I prefer 2 dimensional ones myself.

Surely 2D tiles are like weightless string and frictionless surfaces and only exist in physics lessons? I believe there is an entire branch of maths dedicated to them: http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/whattile.html.

[mark99]

Where are the windows?!

 

 

They clearly overdosed on "Playschool".

[StephenA]

 

 

They clearly overdosed on "Playschool".

 

I just thought it was so people can't walk down the towpath and look in at the luxury interior...