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Post by bargemast on Aug 18, 2018 7:01:58 GMT
That one is with the same broker I'm off to see on Tuesday - a bit small for me but I'll have a look anyway time permitting. Peter's wise words re. degassing a concern however.............. That's right, these 2 tankerbarges are both moored at Zaandam, the small one may be a bit too small for your liking though, and they both have a good but rather noisy kind of engine, an air-cooled Deutz, apart from the noice, there's nothing wrong with these engines, and they are easy to overhaul, as they have individual cylinder barrels, a bit like a VW aircooled engine of Beetle fame.
I'm glad to see that you remember the de-gassing, something not to think too lightly about, but could possibly be included in the negotiations if you're seriously thinking of buying one of these.
If it's not negotiable, ask them for addresses to get it done, as they surely know the right (cheap) places that do this kind of work, also as I wrote before, there are several slips and drydocks in the area, and it's cheaper to lose some money than to end up with something that will ruin you.
Only as I wrote before too, most yards won't do any welding unless the barge has been de-gassed, for which I can't blame them.
I hope that your trip will be a successful one for you, there are barges everywhere, so if you're not 100% convinced when looking at these barges on tuesday, forget about them, and simply continue your search elsewhere.
Don't forget to take (and post) lots of photos of all the floating beauties you'll see.
Peter.
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Post by kris on Aug 18, 2018 20:58:01 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2018 21:55:57 GMT
Ferrocement 45ft smack. Looks interesting. Great advantage of the sea is you can just enjoy the warm weather and lack of rain without worrying about whether there will be enough water about.
And an opportunity to get away from (most of) the idiots.
Very tempting !
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Post by bargemast on Aug 19, 2018 7:23:09 GMT
It will be interesting to see if this boat will sell at all, as there are still lots of people that don't like anything with the word "concrete" used in the list of building materials for boats.
Myself, I wouldn't hesitate and jump on this occasion if the price is right (and we could turn the time back 30 to 40 years ), as it's a brand new boat, most likely well built too, as there are many good boatbuilders around in Faversham, but even if the price is right, I'm not in the market for another boat, and don't think that I would ever finish the rigging and sail to far away destinations.
I've been there many times, before they did a lot of restauration works to the houses in the neighbourhood, and always liked the works going on at the Iron Wharf Boat Yard, there were always several Thames barges there too, a very pretty historical harbour town.
Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2018 7:59:19 GMT
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Post by bargemast on Aug 19, 2018 8:30:27 GMT
That's really terrible, it's always rather dangerous to have so many boats close to each other if there's a fire.
How sick some people can be, and still walk around freely between all the others not knowing about their mental illness.
Setting fire to boats that other people have been working on for many years, trying to realise their dreams, and seeing all of that destroyed by fire, only because of a fool.
Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2018 12:34:49 GMT
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Post by JohnV on Aug 20, 2018 6:20:15 GMT
The original Tahitiana was a classic 1976 Farmer design (American designer) fairly shallow draft (4'4") but has over 6' headroom. gets a round bilge effect with straight transverse frames, angled at each of three chines but has Tee bar longitudinals and the plates are wrapped around those and are welded only to the longitudinals not the frames so the plates belly producing an almost round bilge shape and characteristics. Big sail area with the original ketch sail plan (550 sq feet) gave it a good turn of speed and being long keel means it is stable on course but a bit slow in stays. If this is built to the original Farmer plans (which could be bought, and many were) and was well constructed, then it could be a very good boat indeed eta .... was a very pleasing design for home construction an idea I toyed with and researched a bit back in the early 80's
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 9:56:29 GMT
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Post by JohnV on Aug 20, 2018 11:03:11 GMT
very nice little yot at a very good price
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Post by kris on Aug 20, 2018 15:47:05 GMT
That's not a bad little boat, quite reasonably priced.
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Post by Jim on Aug 20, 2018 17:59:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 18:09:16 GMT
I think we did this one and peter bargemast got very excited about the engine. It is nice to be fair. Always pleasing to see an engine that will still be in running order when the world runs out of oil.
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Post by waldamar on Aug 23, 2018 14:32:26 GMT
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Post by patty on Aug 23, 2018 15:38:26 GMT
Im sure someone on here may have seen that..
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