Gaff cutter Adelaide SA

[PeterSibley]

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Traditional-Gaff-Cutter_W0QQitemZ180321313166QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_ Boats?hash=item180321313166&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
A good looking little boat .

[Larks]

Yes, nice little yacht - 1948

[rufustr]

This is it's second or third time on Ebay, hasn't attracted a bid and the buy it now price seems to come down each time.

If it was here in Brisbane I'd have inspected it and bought it if it is as good as it looks in the photos.

Adelaide is just too far and transport too expensive.

[PeterSibley]

If it was in Brisbane we'd be competing .

[PeterSibley]

A friend trucked a 30 footer (free ) from Melbourne or thereabouts ....$5000 .

[skuthorp]

Looks a bit like Mike field's old boat, Sanderling, same vintage I think too. Not it however. Very tidy and a good price I'd say.

[py]

She is a good little boat. My dad nearly bought her when she was for sale in about 1970, but in the end decided to take her lines off and build a new one, slightly stretched. She started life as a commercial fishing boat over at Edithburgh-one of the last sailing fishing boats in SA. She had a wet well and a small focsle for accommodation. When we looked at her the wetwell had been converted to cabin space. She's probably just about small enough to load onto a car trailer on a one way rental if you really wanted to get her to the eastern seaboard without spening a lot of money.

[skuthorp]

Most of my sailing is done in very shallow water and she would not suit though she is a beautiful boat. I refused an opportunity to buy a similar craft last month. I was sailing in water less than 2ft deep yesterday, a regular occurrence when the tides are minimal.

[Pintado]

I am the current owner of this fine little boat. Yes - she is a little gem and sails even better. She is indeed the one built in 1948 in Edithburg. I had a list of the previous owners, but my memory fails me now. However - there is absolutely no sighn that she ever had a wet well, although she was origionally built as a fishing boat, yes, with a deep (non-draining) cockpit. That all has now been changed.

[PeterSibley]

Pintado ,would you mind posting a few photos ? I really like her ....but SA is a long way away for me .I'd love to see more of her though .....any interior shots ?

[Pintado]

Peter - sure - will post some - most of the pics is on a memory card that I have been looking for for a while now. Don't have many interior pics though - she still needs a good cleanup and paint down below. The plan was for next winter if she does not sell in the meantime.
Oops - by the way - how to post photos on this forum?

[PeterSibley]

Here are a couple of threads that explain it well .
http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88556&highlight=posting+photos
http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87588&highlight=posting+photos

Not too complicated ,I use an online host ,
http://www.picturetrail.com/

Good Luck .

[Wooden Boat Fittings]

Looks a bit like Mike field's old boat, Sanderling, same vintage I think too. Not it however. Very tidy and a good price I'd say.

Not all that dissimilar, I grant you. Five feet longer on the waterline, and of course no raised topsides. Sanderling's design does indeed date from1948, but she herself was built in the early 1970s.

Yes, a good price. But the problem at the moment is with the economy -- everywhere. People are shying away from 'investment' purchases and shouting themselves small luxuries like restaurant meals instead, to make up.

(Our exports to the US, which used to make up about half our total output when the exchange rate didn't favour US buyers' nearly as much as it does now, have completely dried up. Makes an interesting study in buyer behaviour -- good material for an MBA thesis.... Although, mind you, the US is a good deal worse off than we are now.)

Mike

[Pintado]

Thanx Peter for the info. About to give it a go.....
http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL2244/12091231/21501670/353768050.jpg

http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL2244/12091231/21501670/353768015.jpg

[shamus]

Very nice, but more photos please!:)

[Pintado]

shamus - here you go.......

http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL2244/12091231/21501670/353988224.jpg

http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL2244/12091231/21501670/353988192.jpg

http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL2244/12091231/21501670/353988171.jpg

[PeterSibley]

Pintado ....very nice ! I regret that she is so far away ...I'd be down for a much close look .

BTW ,I met your friend Adrian at the Hobart WBF .Good luck ,I hope this thread leads someone to your door .