Free boat any takers

[imtamping2]

Spotted this.............

https://www.gumtree.com/p/freebies/free-giant-boat-/1141762193

[TheQ]

I think the draft might be a little too deep for Black Horse broad...

[Baitrunner]

And a little too long 

30m - gonna need a bigger HIAB Alan if you fancy that one!

[MauriceMynah]

Reckon it'd go under Potter??

[JennyMorgan]

Ferro concrete? Built in Norfolk? Windboats? She looks familiar.

Worth having!

[Guest]

37 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:

Ferro concrete? Built in Norfolk? Windboats? She looks familiar.

Worth having!

She certainly looks like Ferro, there's the faint outline of the vertical armatures along the top of the gunwales.

I doubt if she was built in Norfolk though, at nearly 100ft long I'd guess she was built exactly where she now lays....

No wonder it's free. The cost of moving it would be tremendous.

[JennyMorgan]

Might not be Windboats but I reckon she's professionally built, certainly looks very well finished. What would she cost to move? Ten grand? Be a cheap hull, in my honest opinion. 

[Guest]

Even though it's free, it would be a hell of a gamble Peter.

30 metres long?  in ferro cement ?

It could easily cost around a hundred grand to complete, even on a DIY basis, with this foundation of completely unknown provenance.

[JennyMorgan]

Probably about right on the hundred grand, depending on how far up from very basic you go! Probably pay to have her surveyed. The alternative is for the present owner to put in a front door, a window or two, running water and electricity. 

[ChrisB]

It was always the problem with ferro! So cheap to produce a hull, so many built too big. They had not taken into account the exponential fitting out cost for each metre added. 

All over The World in the seventies and eighties were elephant graveyards of hulls, often beautifully made.

The return is also not great on these boats. BONIFY is for sale lying Ipswich. She did the round Britain for the OGA 50 anniversary. Ferro, with pitch pine on oak deck, heating and ready to go blue water she is for sale at just £28000.

[Guest]

10 hours ago, ChrisB said:

 ........The return is also not great on these boats. BONIFY is for sale lying Ipswich. She did the round Britain for the OGA 50 anniversary. Ferro, with pitch pine on oak deck, heating and ready to go blue water she is for sale at just £28000.

Yes, there's always a question mark hanging over them when they sell, ferro demanded a meticulous attention to detail when being constructed.

Bonify is a beautiful ferro boat though, the best I've ever seen, you'd swear she was an old woodie..

http://www.oga.org.uk/boat/bonify

 

[ChrisB]

Yes, you are so right, just wish I was younger and fitter. She was the owners home for five years and in my opinion an absolute bargain at £28k. You could not put a 19ft gaffer in the water for that money and she is 37ft

[JennyMorgan]

11 hours ago, ChrisB said:

It was always the problem with ferro! So cheap to produce a hull, so many built too big. They had not taken into account the exponential fitting out cost for each metre added. 

All over The World in the seventies and eighties were elephant graveyards of hulls, often beautifully made.

The return is also not great on these boats. BONIFY is for sale lying Ipswich. She did the round Britain for the OGA 50 anniversary. Ferro, with pitch pine on oak deck, heating and ready to go blue water she is for sale at just £28000.

I can think of four Windboat Endurance hulls sat in farm-yards or gardens across Norfolk & Suffolk, probably just as they were delivered. One in Oulton Broad, for example, has sat there for decades.

Good, long lasting stuff though:

 http://www.theexcelsiortrust.co.uk/concretion-fcb/