The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89090   Message #1678401
Posted By: GUEST,Victorious
25-Feb-06 - 07:09 AM
Thread Name: Musical Boatbuilding
Subject: RE: Musical Boatbuilding
There is no "they"
I did it all myself.. singlehanded in the true sense of the word.
(a further clue is in the fact that i dont/cannot build/play guitars anymore.)
Started her rebuild in oct 1998.
Launched in June 2005

Her age is hard to pin down as many of these boats were built "as a yacht" then went to work and only regestered when caught.
Kings Lynn historian said 1902... but that is unlikely to be accurate as i have now discovered she appears in the Fishing Rgester in 1923..... 21 years seems a long time to Get away with working unregestered..
How much is original?
More than many would realise... less than i had hoped.
I started from a wreck buried in the mud.... replaced what i had to.
Details will get published in relavant boat mags in due course.

There are vidios of her rescue and relaunch... but they are much to big files to put on my website.
Music used includes.
Eric clapton, Bernard Cribbins, Arlo Guthrie, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Dire straits and Roger Waters