Anyone fancy a free yacht?

[onesickpuppy]

On eBay:

Free Yacht

Might be of interest to someone?

[Ayahuasca]

As the owner of an old classic sailboat bought cheaply, I can confirm that you need deep pockets for a cheap yacht, and probably much deeper ones for a free one.

[Chrisgr31]

It would be a fascinating project to do, but not cheap, and of course it would have to be in a remarkably inconvienent location in the first place!

[Munter]

Viking funeral anybody?

[Ayahuasca]

It would cost bargeloads of fifty pound notes to get it into a seaworthy condition, and even then good ones are only worth about £12,000 ( http://www.theyachtmarket.com/boats_for_sale/18245... ) so you wouldn't get your money back. Lost cause I am afraid.

[mybrainhurts]

That'd feed a log burner for a fair old time...

[IanMorewood]

Nice idea dont have pockets deep enough though to consider rebuilding a wooden boat.

[Silent1]

The scrap value of the wood would make that a good deal for someone local with their own kit to transport it.

[scubadude]

I own a just about seaworthy 30ft wooden boat and agree- if you couldn't afford to fill the empty hull with cash then you can't afford to do it up, max return for refurbishing it will be about 30% of what the refurb would cost too.

[Ayahuasca]

Thinking about it, I wonder if you could make it seaworthy for not much money?

Joshua Slocum built a similar sized boat out of an old wreck and a tree, with just an axe and an adze, and sailed it single-handed around the world.

If you forgot about expensive modern kit from chandleries, you could pay the seams with bits of old rope and tar, fashion a mast and spars out of an old telegraph pole, fill the bilges with stones for ballast, make new sails by sewing together old ones, use ordinary rope for the standing and running rigging, use deadeyes instead of modern shroud tensioners, a steering oar instead of a rudder. Would be an interesting project.

[onesickpuppy]

I'm almost tempted to have it in the garden for the kids to play pirates in!