#evolution 26

Something nice for the weekend Sir…?

The weekly trawl of boats on Ebay continues with another quickie post.

I got all excited when i did my weekly search when yet another Fairey Atalanta came up but then i realised that it was clearly the same boat as last weekend, just with some different photographs.  It does look to be a slightly larger project : the peeling paint inside suggests moisture to me and it sounds as though a buyer…

Next in the series of posts about shallow draft/beachable boats, this time it’s the race derived boats around the quarter-ton size.

This is really just a catch-up post as we have already seen these boats in the blog before and i have even been to see one of them and am reasonably familiar with the others.  When i came up on Ebay i was initially quite enthusiastic about the little Dehler 25 in the…

This will be the last post in the series about first or starter boats until i do another round of boats at a budget point.   When i do that i intend to hit a lower budget point and i already have a few in mind although boat buying and selling tends to be a bit slack at this time of year.

In the previous post i took as the starting point that comfort onboard might be a high priority as it was…