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There are still many boat made of wood along the coast of Maine. Last
summer, a traditional plank on frame yacht was launched not far from me. No doubt a wooden boat requires more work. That is true. If I were to look at a wooden boat, I would first look at the basics. General condition. Rot. Type of wood construction. A strip plank construction is easy to saturate with epoxy. Unless the boat is beautiful, you should not offer much for it. The insurance will be prohibitive. What skills do you have? Are you a woodworker? Have you ever worked on a wooden boat? Do you know about fastenings, rot, dead wood, keel, etc etc? I saw an old wooden sailing boat that was for sail and she was in top notch condition. Strip plank construction. Lots of epoxy saturation. Good paint job. Updated engine, etc. She was beautiful. But even the owner told me she was a lot of work. He loved her and hated her at the same time. Another thing .. where are you planning on sailing? In the hot sun of Florida, the decks, hull, everything starts to open up. ========== I think you should move toward steel if you want affordable. Might not be as pretty, but a simple metal hull can hold up. "biz" wrote in message ... Hi group OK, now I've exhausted my search around usenet and the wider web for information on this topic I thought I'd post for some fresh thoughts and ideas. I'm considering buying a wooden boat as a liveaboard, and I have some major concerns. Almost everyone I come across - surveyors, brokers, finance houses, insurance companies, usenet posters - seems to balk at it to lesser or greater degrees. It seems established that they require regular and vigilant maintenance. I don't want to buy a money pit, and two marinas I've come across are so fed up with people abandoning wooden boats they won't allow them. Any thoughts on this? I've been quoted GBP950 (about $1800) for a survey on the hard, and the surveyor will do an initial walk-through to see if it's worth going ahead even to that stage. It's 45 feet long, and is carvel constructed. I don't yet know the year or specific hull material. The beams are about 2" x 2". I'm going to go along tomorrow and try to have as many of the floorboards up as possible so that I can go through with a bradawl and check for sponginess. Think I should not risk it and try and find myself a nice tongue in cheekeasy/ steel-shell? Biz |
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