A yacht surveyor employed by Andrew's insurer is going to have look at Varkoula to assess the damage.
I have had a chat with Andy and he has agreed that we should let his insurers take the matter in hand......
that may take some time to work through the process
so.....
KTL Varkoula is now out of the frame
back to the drawing board
all options open
Is that as in ‘permanently’ out of the frame ?
Is that because Catspaw would require less fettling. I think South Ferriby is a much shorter journey for you than Neyland. Neyland is a delightful spot though. Keep looking…….. she’s out there somewhere.
How’s about this one, so cheap you may be able to transport it and it says in Hemel, less than 30 minute drive from you:http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121750025625?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2648&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Looks just like something you would like Dylan, a good fixer up, it says it is listed elsewhere so you would not be have to stick with the ebay timelines, you could go and inspect at your leisure. It has an eberspacher for Jill aswell.
For a few of the boats I’ve looked at the last 9-months, the shipping by truck would have been more expensive than buying the boat. I’ve stopped looking at boats in the NYC Long Island Sound area since shipping a boat through NYC is prohibitive. You need a wide-load permit to cross through NYC and over the Hudson River Bridges…very expensive.
Alternately, it’s a long, hard sail from Long Island Sound through NY Harbor, down to Cape May and back up the Delaware, even though it’s only 50-miles in a straight-line.
It’s expensive enough to pay the yard to move the boat from the hard and put it in the water at their own dock. Especially if it’s no-longer Spring launching-season.