spotted on ebay [uk]

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on another thread is a photo of a boat which looks remarkably similar to this one which is up for grabs in Suffolk [UK]. There was a lot of interest in the provenance of the one on the forum IIRC

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SAILING-SKIFF_W0QQitemZ220445445741QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_S porting_Goods_Sailing_Boats_ET?hash=item3353928e6d&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A1|66%3A2|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A0| 293%3A6|294%3A50 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SAILING-SKIFF_W0QQitemZ220445445741QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_S porting_Goods_Sailing_Boats_ET?hash=item3353928e6d&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C 301%3A0%7C293%3A6%7C294%3A50)


http://i.ebayimg.com/17/%21BVbj%28SgCGk%7E$%28KGrHgoOKiwEjlLmVWD3BKSemLpwB g%7E%7E_1.JPG

currently at £100 [$200 ish]

[Thad]

sweet!

[2MeterTroll]

almost the same sweep and hull shape as the sampan. nice.

i think i will try and see if they have any sailing info on it.

[johngsandusky]

Cool boat. The centerboard looks like bronze(!?). I doubt the seller knows about sailing it, since the board is in wrong, text says it's never been sailed. But it's very interesting.

[goodbasil]

Kinda looks like a stretched version od Simon Watts 11.5' Norwegion Sailing Pram. (Kinda)

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=48450&cat=1,46096,46097&ap=1

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

It is twelve miles away from me.
I suppose I could have a look. There was a boat of this type on a mooring here for a number of years and I wonder if this might be the same one. Not my sort of boat, really.

[2MeterTroll]

i read the description again; says it was garaged and the varnish peeled off. ???? umm hows that work? seems like it might have been garaged for a lot longer than a couple years. also says its never seen water.

pretty boat none the less. not sure how i would manage to get it here without sailing it across the pond. :(

[Hwyl]

Andrew, you have to add it to your fleet. Or at least make an offer

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Not much interest to me, Gareth, but I am happy to make an appointment and go and look at it for anyone who may be interested - it would not cost a fortune to ship to the States.

If the trailer is decent I might be interested in that.

Note that she appears quite lightly built. On reflection this is not the boat that was on a drying mooring here - that boat was a bit clumbungy but this one looks quite delicate.

I am surprised by the lack of thwart knees but maybe that is usual for the type - or maybe they never got fitted, because she was never finished?

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

.... that boat was a bit clumbungy but this one looks ...

Oooo eck - a new word sends me scampering to a dictionary - or google....

boo-helly, and a daamisht boond did a heykokutty on the blooster. Oh, he dikkled that brug. A yalliecrag greeted the clumbungie, before an aklin, an ungadrengen fresh fae a pinkiefeel, gave the brooie a yuffie, and he sat for hackamuggie and a buggle. His cummerskolls had been a wirrablaa.

Source - and explanation. (http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/robertmcneil/Unravelling-ancient-tongues-not-outer.2538572.jp)

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I thought I'd seen something similar elswhere here:

http://www.woodenboat.com/forum//showthread.php?t=50623&page=3

halfway down the page. Not quite the same, mind you - just similar :)

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I have made an appointment to look at this boat in three hours'time.

Since it is on a trailer on a farm four miles from Felixstowe Dock, mr car has a trailer hitch and I work for a shipping line with a Trans-Atlantic service from Felixstowe, getting it to the States would be dead easy, and probably not very expensive if a buyer were not in a big hurry (cheaper as "LCL" - less than containerload" cargo in a container with other items.

Anyone who wants any part specially looked at speak now!

Andrew

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

PS, I need to get to Shropshire towing an empty trailer shortly so can also deliver in a Welsh direction!

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PS, I need to get to Shropshire towing an empty trailer shortly so can also deliver in a Welsh direction!


Nooo don't tempt me. as well as the 18 to do, I have a 1960 vintage MR to reglue revamp and then I wanted to have a go at a sof seakayak.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Where's Clencher when you need him?

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Been there, seen it, took photos and a couple of measurements. Note extreme beam is 53" depth below thwarts to keelson is 12", thwarts 6" below top of (open) gunwales.

Spars, rudder and centreboard (ply) do not belong to the boat but are not bad. No oarlocks, plates for oarlocks, gudgeons on transom or oars. No painter ring on bow transom - I would say this boat has never been wet.

Anyone who wants to know more, PM me your email address and I'll send the photos I took.