Fally-over houseboat ship project
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I am well up for watching this as it progresses.
Closer to home a young couple have recently bought a local boat in need of serious renovation, a 72ft wooden ww2 harbour defence launch. Double diagonal mahogany, with a more recent but we'll tired superstructure and cabin fit out.
Currently it appears the hull is remarkably sound bar the top foot due to rain ingress, which other than the engine is the only saving. They are nuts, but in all the right ways, and have started by uploading a few videos for family and friends are fast turning into a youtube phenomenon with 20k followers and patreon platform.
Walk past with the dogs a few times, saw she was for sale, became interested, but wasn't mad enough to buy it! So I shall be watching closely.
Might be worth a thread on its own, but to canvas interest, FB and YT links below.
https://www.facebook.com/shiphappens1392/
https://youtube.com/channel/UCGYfor_-g_k8ib-rBzXOL...
Daniel
Closer to home a young couple have recently bought a local boat in need of serious renovation, a 72ft wooden ww2 harbour defence launch. Double diagonal mahogany, with a more recent but we'll tired superstructure and cabin fit out.
Currently it appears the hull is remarkably sound bar the top foot due to rain ingress, which other than the engine is the only saving. They are nuts, but in all the right ways, and have started by uploading a few videos for family and friends are fast turning into a youtube phenomenon with 20k followers and patreon platform.
Walk past with the dogs a few times, saw she was for sale, became interested, but wasn't mad enough to buy it! So I shall be watching closely.
Might be worth a thread on its own, but to canvas interest, FB and YT links below.
https://www.facebook.com/shiphappens1392/
https://youtube.com/channel/UCGYfor_-g_k8ib-rBzXOL...
Daniel
dhutch said:
I am well up for watching this as it progresses.
Closer to home a young couple have recently bought a local boat in need of serious renovation, a 72ft wooden ww2 harbour defence launch. Double diagonal mahogany, with a more recent but we'll tired superstructure and cabin fit out.
Currently it appears the hull is remarkably sound bar the top foot due to rain ingress, which other than the engine is the only saving. They are nuts, but in all the right ways, and have started by uploading a few videos for family and friends are fast turning into a youtube phenomenon with 20k followers and patreon platform.
Walk past with the dogs a few times, saw she was for sale, became interested, but wasn't mad enough to buy it! So I shall be watching closely.
Might be worth a thread on its own, but to canvas interest, FB and YT links below.
https://www.facebook.com/shiphappens1392/
https://youtube.com/channel/UCGYfor_-g_k8ib-rBzXOL...
Daniel
Only the ~160 sqft of bCloser to home a young couple have recently bought a local boat in need of serious renovation, a 72ft wooden ww2 harbour defence launch. Double diagonal mahogany, with a more recent but we'll tired superstructure and cabin fit out.
Currently it appears the hull is remarkably sound bar the top foot due to rain ingress, which other than the engine is the only saving. They are nuts, but in all the right ways, and have started by uploading a few videos for family and friends are fast turning into a youtube phenomenon with 20k followers and patreon platform.
Walk past with the dogs a few times, saw she was for sale, became interested, but wasn't mad enough to buy it! So I shall be watching closely.
Might be worth a thread on its own, but to canvas interest, FB and YT links below.
https://www.facebook.com/shiphappens1392/
https://youtube.com/channel/UCGYfor_-g_k8ib-rBzXOL...
Daniel
d double diagonal to replace then. 
I think so many of these people fall in love with the idea of restoring a boat and have little clue of the real effort it takes to do a nice job.
I built my glassfibre boat from almost scratch (bare hull was moulded for me, but I did everything else), and that was enough. And that was new. A restoration is even tougher. At least restoring a car they're not 70' long and you can weld bits in to fix the holes.
To contemplate restoring a wooden boat, 70+ feet long, to a good standard, yourself. Holy crap!
I built my glassfibre boat from almost scratch (bare hull was moulded for me, but I did everything else), and that was enough. And that was new. A restoration is even tougher. At least restoring a car they're not 70' long and you can weld bits in to fix the holes.
To contemplate restoring a wooden boat, 70+ feet long, to a good standard, yourself. Holy crap!
CAPP0 said:
Where's that one lying Daniel?
On the coast in the North West. The owners have asked the exact location remain less public. Arnie Cunningham said:
I think so many of these people fall in love with the idea of restoring a boat and have little clue of the real effort it takes to do a nice job.
Often yes, they openly admit it wasn't a planned purchase and that it will be done over several years.However they do also run a bespoke caravan fitting business and have serially restored trailable powerboats including a wooden Broom craft.
Daniel
dhutch said:
Closer to home a young couple have recently bought a local boat in need of serious renovation, a 72ft wooden ww2 harbour defence launch. Double diagonal mahogany, with a more recent but we'll tired superstructure and cabin fit out.
Currently it appears the hull is remarkably sound bar the top foot due to rain ingress, which other than the engine is the only saving...
They just need to pop her in to https://www.dennettboatbuilders.co.uk/ with a large bag of money.Currently it appears the hull is remarkably sound bar the top foot due to rain ingress, which other than the engine is the only saving...
Simpo Two said:
dhutch said:
Closer to home a young couple have recently bought a local boat in need of serious renovation, a 72ft wooden ww2 harbour defence launch. Double diagonal mahogany, with a more recent but we'll tired superstructure and cabin fit out.
Currently it appears the hull is remarkably sound bar the top foot due to rain ingress, which other than the engine is the only saving...
They just need to pop her in to https://www.dennettboatbuilders.co.uk/ with a large bag of money.Currently it appears the hull is remarkably sound bar the top foot due to rain ingress, which other than the engine is the only saving...
At least they should have a hint then. GRP is easy but wood is a different league. And of course, a boat twice as long is at least 4 times as much work, if not 8, I would argue.
dhutch said:
Often yes, they openly admit it wasn't a planned purchase and that it will be done over several years.
However they do also run a bespoke caravan fitting business and have serially restored trailable powerboats including a wooden Broom craft.
Daniel
However they do also run a bespoke caravan fitting business and have serially restored trailable powerboats including a wooden Broom craft.
Daniel
classicaholic said:
We all know what BOAT stands for!
In the case of Ship Happens, it needs to be BOAM. I watched their vids a bit, that boat needs to be under cover with a team of three, led by an experienced shipwright, for a year, she is big, complex build, the surgery to remove the rot will be serious work. To my mind, unless they have got several million to spend, its a non starter.
I have the wooden boat T shirt, 3 rebuilds on boats of 28 and 31 foot, boats that are about 3.5 to 4.25 tons. I have done all the work myself, been to A&E, nearly killed myself trying, I can tell them, they cannot do that boat on a DIY part time basis. Its just not doable. I hate to be negative about a wooden boat, they run in my veins, but not that f
king great big thing!Zoinks! Having had a look at one of the yootoob offerings they either have very large testicles or are terminally naive. That's a sad looking boat, although it clearly had a st-tonne of money spent in the 1980s-ish era, that fin stabiliser system would have been massively expensive(and quite necessary for luxury yacht/charter work as HDMLs had a rep for rolling like fat labradors).
t-tonne of money spent in the 1980s-ish era, that fin stabiliser system would have been massively expensive(and quite necessary for luxury yacht/charter work as HDMLs had a rep for rolling like fat labradors). Edited by hidetheelephants on Thursday 11th March 20:44
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