Tug For Sale

[Dalesman]

Nice handy little tug.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2013-Swift-17-Motor-Boat-Designed-on-Tug-Style-Unique-cruiser-built-from-plans/311707750139?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D39801%26meid%3D1c37dadc19d1423688d7a1f3975c6447%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D391590964150

[churchward]

That looks fun

[Laurence Hogg]

Fun boat, wood sheathed in GRP but never a tug.

[Athy]

It sure does, Churchward - though it looks as if its milieu would be the lake in your local park.

Edited October 16, 2016 by Athy

[Graham Davis]

Sweet.
looks like one of the tugs from the children's programme.

[Dalesman]

Fun boat, wood sheathed in GRP but never a tug.

It's a tug Jim but "not as we know it"

 

http://www.berkeley-engineering.com/CanduE-Z.html

[Peter X]

If it can tug hard enough, I suppose you could do worse than to pair it with a full length butty, no need to convert the butty. It wouldn't be historically accurate, but I guess it would handle well?

[carlt]

Nice but I'd rather have the real thing for 7250 Euros and ship this over from The Netherlands...

 

 

 

Edited October 16, 2016 by carlt

[carlt]

Or how about this one for 5900 Euros?

 

 

 

[ChimneyChain]

There used to be one of those little tugs tied up in Uxbridge, it's was used solely to dump rubbish and water/toilet duties

 

Darren

[churchward]

Nice but I'd rather have the real thing for 7250 Euros and ship this over from The Netherlands...

 

 

 

I was thinking the TUG in the OP reminded me of these dutch tugs. Very nice boat in your Pic.

 

This is off topic but I have been hankering after a small wooden boat for sometime and I have been learning to sail this year. I was wondering if you have any thoughts/recommendations on trailerable sailing dingies/boats preferably single handed launch and recovery. Something of a Wayfairer sized boat (which is what I have been using in training. I know these come in wooden and fibre glass but these and similar wooden dingies seem to be hot moulded ply construction. I may be wrong but these seem to be harder to maintain and repair than fibreglass and other wooden construction techniques.

 

I am not into racing I just want a day sailer or cruiser that I can use on the lakes in Wales and maybe a bit of coastal sailing in good weather.