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clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

I have never owned a boat probably because I cant swim. I just wondered if anyone on the forum has ever had a boat.( Toy ones dont count Laughing

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Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Churchill Johnson · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 359 Location: Rayleigh Essex

Yes i had one many year's ago marine ply speedboat type with a modified ford e93a engine and gearbox purchased on a trailer but i never put it on the water and sold it after about a year for a small profit still got a spare lucas vertex mag for it.

Ellis · Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:05 am Post subject:

Not myself, but my late father who was a pharmaceutical chemist came from a maritime family and his DNA needs were satisfied by a Dauntless class, clinker built gaff rigged yacht built new at Canvey Island on the Thames.

It had the most unreliable Stewart Turner petrol engine.

I don't have the same interest - I'm a country boy who can't even swim. Smile

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stuchamp · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 546 Location: Iowa, USA

I've had a few over the years. Everything from small fishing boats to fast power boats. Now days, I prefer older boats to work on and play with.
Currently have a 50's 3-point hydro outboard race boat and an 8' runabout race boat that I built in the 80's.
I plan on bringing home a 1957 Lone Star Skipper 16' with a '57 Johnson Javelin 35hp this coming June from Texas.
My Dad is 78 and is still in the boat business so I have easy access to most anything.

52classic · Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 493 Location: Cardiff.

Amongst my 'round tuits' there's a Moonfleet Silver Shaddow. Early 60's.
Next step is to find a period trailer for it and then a Ford straight 6 that I can marinise.

47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

I managed to talk my father into buying a boat when I was a teenager. He never had the foggiest about boats and I wanted something that we could go out sea fishing in. Then when I was in my mid 20s I bought my first boat A Dejon 14' day boat at a cost of £600 and spent a couple of months renovating it before launching it on Loch Lomond, I kept it for the remainder of that season and then sold it for £1500 and bought my second boat a 22' cabin cruiser which I kept on the loch for 9 years before selling. I then decided to let others foot the bill for boating and helped crew for a mate who had a yacht at Inverkip where we were very successful racing on the Clyde
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Ironhead · Joined: 28 Mar 2010 Posts: 458 Location: Leicestershire

i'd love a little cabin cruiser so i could nip over to the I.O.W.,but it would be a bit scary as i've no mariner skills Confused

rjt10/4 · Joined: 26 Nov 2012 Posts: 214 Location: Minions Cornwall

on top of all my classics i have just purchased a hurley 20 yacht and have just booked some sailing lessons for next month

Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire

To me boats are like horses - dodgy steering, no suspension and subject to wind.

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7211 Location: Edinburgh

My father (on the right) had a boat. He wasn't very pleased when I put a hole in it on Loch Morar. Looking at my big sister I guess I was about 10 or 11 at the time. Linking with the cameras thread my camera that I used to take the photo would have been a Zeiss Ikon folding camera that took 8 shots on a roll of 120 film.

A few years later I used to borrow it now and then when I had my Hillman Minx and later still Sunbeam Rapier.

You can just see it behind the black Minx outside the Portsonachan Hotel.

I still have the outboard but it hasn't been started for more than 40 years.
I also have a windsurfer but that hasn't been out for about 10 years due to the effects of heavy use on my carpal tunnels.

Peter
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D4B · Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 2083 Location: Hampshire UK

Fab pics

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4850 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

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pigtin · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay

I still have a boat and catalogued my misadventures from buying it to each trip out fishing off Herne Bay.

It is still sitting out on my front lawn grinning malevolently at me. The moment I get the engine to start again it will be sold.

Here is the link:
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/forum/phpbb/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2998&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=hello+sailor&start=15
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