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ABANDONED BOATS for sale in the Shipyard + Camping in the VW Bus + Another FORMOSA 51 (Ep. 40)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ธ.ค. 2023
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In previous videos, we explored several other Taiwanese built sailboats, such as the Formosa 51, the Mikelson 50, and even the Ta Chiao CT 54. Known for their luxurious teak woodwork, these Taiwanese boats have a rich history in the sailing world, and are loved by many. The last Formosa 51 that we saw on the channel sank only days after we saw it. It's tough to find one in good condition, so we took a shot at one in Carabelle, FL that several people had told us about.
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I must pay you two a compliment. You are a wonderful team, and it's refreshing to see it.
Thank you!!!! We hope you stick around. We're still looking!
The most expensive thing you can own is a free boat
we completely agree!
Love this saying. It's so true!
Oh my perfejust perfect!!!
I don't like looking at where wooden boats go to die, because I fall in love with them all!
Same!!! It's a real issue. Daren sent me a photo a few days after we filmed and shows the little wooden boat being cut up
"......and I make wine in my closet." could very well be the best bio ever
Hahahaha I agree
I have been to several times & as a Canadian from Cape Breton Island, the way you (long time or born & raised Floridians) react to ahhh "what you call cold" has always made me chuckle. Once when in Sarasota area in February , a gorgeous morning blue sky, sun just cracked the horizon & this restaurant offering breakfast special was quite busy, I asked the greeter if I could get a spot out on the deck...she was shocked & told me "it was too cold to put her wait staff out side & was why no one was sitting out in the cold". It was about 55* or maybe a bit higher ....Then she says, "You're a Canadian aren't you dear" while looking AT ME WITH A LOOK OF I THINK IT WAS CONCERN FOR MY MENTAL WELL BEING ....LOLOLOL. We sat inside, to protect the wait staff.🥰
hahahah I can't say I blame them, honestly! I'm a bigger wuss about the cold than most other Floridians (that might be part due to the fact most "Floridians" aren't even from here, anymore) so when it's below 75, it's cold. 55?! No thanks. We've had below freezing temps lately and I'm living in hell.
Run. Run as fast as you two can from all those boats.
we did!
That boat you were thinking about getting that towed…I believe channel sailing magic carpet rebuilt a few of them….That Formosa , at one time was beautiful …Too much work…
Yeah, I like them, I just don't keep up with any other channels really or what they are up to. I just like that she also plays music. haha Yeah, we really did want a Formosa 51 or the like, and we'd looked hard at that Mikelson, but it's all a bit much I think. We thought we had more money when we started looking a few years ago, and that budget slowly dropped but it's alright, we're still doing cool things and we will still get a boat, we just may go a little smaller for a few more years and then upgrade, which is what I didn't want to do! That's alright though.
Those were some of the most expensive boats I have seen in awhile . The steel one actually looked in better shape . Rust is not hard to fix if not too extensive . Steel boats can look real ugly while still being solid .
That’s the truth.
At least it has some firewood. When are we going surfing and see Hal's "Einstein hair" again? Good new year you two 💥
hahahahahaha Ohhh yes, Well, the waves here are just ....not really what I'm used to. lol They're small and not really groundswell, and I admit I'm spoiled. Might get down to Puerto Rico this spring though.
Sorry that other comment is me accidentally writing from our other new channel.
New Bedford my hometown !!
Wow! I sailed into there for the night once and walked around. Somehow stumbled into the oldest operating elevator in the US. Hahaha The guy invited us to go up in it too! The museum was closed 😕 Very cool little area down there. Cute tug boats everywhere. lol
Interesting material! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for being here!!!
I’m 60 years old. Back in the 1980s I own three Volkswagen buses and five bugs. people either love them, or they hate them. Hardly ever see people driving them anymore. Puts a smile on my face. They have their own smell.
They used to put actual horse hair in the seats. 😁
I’ve been following you guys for a while…As your driving to campground , I said to myself man that looks like St. George Island… my father retired and moved to St. Petersburg and him and his lady friend used to rent a house for a month in march @ St. George Island….for 9 yrs..It was going back a few years…I used to come from New Jersey and come down for a week. What a cool place. Got a lot memories there… Apalachicola…( awesome)Been to Chili fest, the firehouse rib fest seen Jenny Piccolo play at rib fest…Awesome people beautiful area…You done put a tear in my eye…Love your channel ..😎
Awhhh yeah, thank you! Yes, this is home for us. I lived in the state park when I was little, raised by my grandparents and my grandpa was a park ranger and then manager and we lived in state parks around FL, and this was one. I then moved to Apalach in 95 and grew up there. It has changed, but it's still good ol Franklin County. hahah Vey cool that you have history here too! Thanks for the comment and for keeping up with us!
Jessica sounds like me looking at old Ford pickups. “The tree growing out of the glovebox sells it”😂😂😂
Hahahahaa Wasn’t that little palm tree so perfectly placed next to the little baby boat? Two babies, together.
That little wooden boat is fantastic! If I didn’t already have three of them I was working on, I’d take it in a second! Somebody save that boat!
Isn't it darling?! I really hope someone picks it up for a project. I have a feeling it'll die right there, though.
Sorry, that last comment was me. Wrong channel logged in! dang.
@@TheSirensLog I do that all the time. in fact I meant to make that initial comment on my @TheSalvationNavy channel and instead made it on my personal account. Hate it when I do that!
@@AnotherVWChannel Tragically, that's likely. One of my fantasies is to win the Powerball and buy a marine and create a woodenboat building and repair school. I'd send people all around the country to save boats just like this. HATE seeing them lost.
Siren you were cracking me up when you were examining the mold spores on the buns. So funny! I love your beautiful heart for these old boats. I hate to see almost any boat rot away. They were all beautiful at some point in their life and it’s a shame when they are too far gone. Good luck y’all. BTW the bus is looking great with new lenses and trim. Shakas!
Thank you!!!! lol yeah that mold… it was reeeally small mold and it was all down in the cracks and just… no. Hahahaa So, the little wooden boat died today. I wanted to cry 😭. Hey if you like the bus stuff, we just started a little spin-off; it’s called “Another VW Channel”. Thanks for being here with us!!
Thanks. I’ll go check it out. I’m enjoying your boat hunt. Good luck.
Was down there about 6 months again and seen Maggie wish I had the resources and the time to take on a project of this scope ! …. Once I finish is my compac 16 I’m planning to move up to a larger sailboat and eventually retire to a live aboard… one day !! Enjoy your videos and all the boats … local to the Tallahassee St. George Carrabelle and St. Marks and enjoy sailing this area as well !
What’s the marina/boatyard?
Dockside Marina, Carabelle, FL @@fighter1985
Sorry that other comment is me accidentally writing from our other new channel.
Awsome video again of course....Josh n Allison here
Hey guys!!!! Thank you so much! Glad to have you around! We started a new channel for the VW stuff called Another VW Channel. lol See you guys at the camp!
One of my biggest fears is finding myself incapacitated in a moldy cabin. It cost me $876CD to have air tests (Artificial Intelligence) performed on a three story home. I'm just thinking out loud here because I don't want to see you sick. Salty air is good and grinder dust is bad...sort of thing. Trust me, I understand the drive to perform a custom refit but live and let die does apply in this episode.
If you did get that Formosa for the right price you could afford to sub out the ugly jobs. A custom pilot house could add character and that interior could be popped back in easier and cheaper than starting new. (thinking out loud again)
You're right! For us, it's a bit much. We have a budget, but I'll be the first to admit, it's shrinking everyday as we put more money into my VW's. We started a second channel for that actually, it's called Another VW Channel. It's worth it to drop the budget a bit for those, and you're right about being able to sub out the work! I think we really want to just get moving on something that isn't a huge project, though. We're already crazy busy people so the smaller the project, the better.
@@richardstever3242
Sorry that other comment is me accidentally writing from our other new channel.
I came across your channel and thought it is cool that my wife and I live in the same area here in Panama city. I will be watching you guys.
Oh that’s awesome! Yeah, we’re around! See you around town- hollar if you see us.
Which Millers are you talking about? @@Gtfobcso2024
salvage any brass lanterns & associated items worth antiquities, and sink it for reef development!
I agree with salvaging what you can. Another formosa we saw in another video sank a couple days after we filmed it and there are SO many things we wish we had off that boat. Please subscribe and stick around! We’re still hunting for the future boat and I think we found it. New videos on Sundays.
It could be ok in the garden as a Visual and storage space.
This was kind of a sad video. Those boats remind me of some houses I've looked at. You'd love to bring them back to life but it's just too much work. Keep the good stuff coming guys.
Totally. If I had oodles of money, I’d probably track these boats down and pay someone to just restore them, not for profit, but just to give them life. But dang it- I don’t have oodles of money. 😂🫠
I feel that way about some cars I like. It is sad when you think that there was a time when it was all brand new and shiny and perfect and held such promise for adventure and to see them (be it boat or car) all forgotten and rotty and you wonder how did it get to this point. I've lived in my subdivision for 27 years now and there is a home that has a boat that is parked there. It has never moved. It only sees water when it rains. So sad.
These boats are all fixable ,but it having the time to do it all I had a 1905 wooden boat 42 feet long I had to get rid of her because of full time work ,still miss her .
Yeah we definitely don’t want a wooden boat (shouldn’t say that- I’d LOVE a wooden boat but not in Florida) so we’re sticking to fiberglass with wood interior, but this entire interior would have to be ripped out and that’s a lot!
So sad to see the Maggie May in such despair☹️😢it's a beautiful boat, that layout was nice.
It is so lovely. Unfortunately without paying over $100k for one, this is generally what they look like.
Freakin loved this video! Stoked to see the VW out at camp. We are ready to go campin with you guys
Where we goin camping?!?
As a boatbuilder and finish carpenter, I would love to have the Formosa 5, but If you’re not capable of that kind of woodworking, don’t get it.
Capable just don't want to
Yeah its a lot. We're not afraid of a project, but it's only because we have SO many big projects we're in the middle of already. I'm trying to stay realistic about what we can take on in terms of money and time. We are also overhauling my two VW busses (we just started another channel called Another VW Channel) and that is taking a ton of time and money, so we need to try to scale back on the "projects" lol. Thanks for the comment! Stick around!!!
Sorry, that was me responding from the wrong channel. We had to start a new channel for the VW content because every time we posted a VW episode we lost subscribers.
you can make it tall enough for Hal
If I chop something up lol
Seems the “Yellow X” bargain bin boats are all too far gone for your purposes… perhaps your contact at the boat yard can disclose the boats that sat on the hard for a season or two, approach those owners as they may have lost interest or due to circumstance be interested in letting the boat go on to a new owner… a “win-win”, less time-money in refit and the former owners can minimize the carrying costs towards the inevitable sale… wondering about that one in the background here- 24:26
Hahaha, Yeah I was eyeing that up too. I wanna say it was an Irwin, and Daren was giving us the scoop on that but I can't remember now what it was. Definitely wasnt up for grabs though, unfortunately. Yes, these bargains are all a little too far gone, or not quite what we're looking for. I LOVED the wooden boat inside, even though I don't think it's exactly what we are looking for, I'm definitely keeping it in mind.
Sorry that other comment is me accidentally writing from our other new channel. Anyway, check it out if you like VW's! lol
Apalachicola is way too cold for me. I live a lot further south and it’s still too cold today.. lol.
Yep!! Thank you!! That’s my home town and when I was old enough, I moved! lol
@@TheSirensLog (she was never there
who was never where? @@tommygunz8692
Oh Apalach! Yeah I figured he just knew the area. But he's not lying! Apalach is cold! The panhandle is way too cold for these bones. @@tommygunz8692
For the Formosa...if it were free and someone considered as a bare hull, it can work. A bare hull with some usable hardware. But the top and inside is just so far gone...so sad!😢 Mine (Formosa 41') was not that far gone, and even I would have probably been better off to just gut it from the beginning.
Yeaaah, you’re right. That’s what we said too. I don’t want to rip out all that wood. Honestly that’s what we love about Taiwan builds, is the wood! If we rip it out, then we may as well just find a different boat.
I can tell you that twin rigged steel boat looks like a very good historic sail boat. It looks like a Freedom 40 or same design..by Gary Hoyt..🤔 the original design was a suprisingly fast boat able to beat a Swan 44... Also that big cabin aft is all for the owners.
Originally a minimalist sailing design you steered from aft of the rear mast. The rig is original like a double masted Cat boat, very simple and safe for short handed sailing.
If you can weld a VW bus you can repair a steel hull ...
🧙♂️🇬🇧 happy new year.. and good hunting ... Dont forget to look at Epoxy ply built boats ...done properly like Wharrams they are excellent. The glassing of the hull is something needed to counter the dreaded Tropical toredo worms.
The other
Thanks for watching and for the comment! Great info, thank you! And you're so right about the wood. I love wooden boats, but for now I think I better stick to my Wooden Boat Magazine as porn as let it go! I'm a warm water girl! haha
Sorry that other comment is me accidentally writing from our other new channel.
@@TheSirensLog
Lol happy new year ... No problem take a look at - Invent wood, MettalWood modified timber and The Dutch Accoya..
MettelWood is reckoned to be stronger than steel.. stiffer and lighter than Aluminium . Natural Carbon fiber at a fraction of the price.😉
Also dont rule out a Wharram ... from pahi tiki or Islander 38ft up to 62 or' Dudley Dix 550.
Why stick to monohulls when the polynesians figured out the answer centuries before.
hahah You're right! lol Happy new year! @@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665
You should have a look at Sailing Miss Lone Star to see what it took for her to restore a 51 Formosa and that was starting with a boat in much better condition.
Oh I’m sure. We know the work involved and we don’t want a project this big. We did see a Mikelson in much better shape though!
We grew up going to St. George Island 🩵 ~Love your videos!
Awhh Nice. I lived on the island and also in Apalach.
Thanks for watching!!! Follow and stick with us.
Looks like you found the sailboat ⛵️ grave yard - recommend not disturbing the dead.
lol. Yeah yeah. We had to go look!!!! Several people told us there was a 51 over there we had to see. And you know us!
Just remember you get what you pay for. These boats are so bad . You can get ill just lookin at em.
Yep. We’d hoped to find a gem in there somewhere but I don’t think we did this time! But maybe this video will help them get a few people in there to get some boats out of the yard.
What are you looking for
I know nice hunter lengend 45 sitting in my marina
Save the teak
I don’t love hunters, even though my mom, dad and grandma worked at the factory building them. If I got a hunter it would have to be one I knew they specifically built as a novelty
Boat with character is nice
Wondering if it worth restoring the hunter for resale
10:36 I love this one and how it is set up ❤
Yeah these are a little too far gone for us.
We have a '73 Bus (LTL BUS) in Pristine condition!! Great video.
Run. This is more expensive than a boat that's ready for sea
Yeah we don’t mind a project but we’d like to USE the boat sooner than later. Hahahs
@@TheSirensLog Any boat older than 15 years is a project :) but you're sailing quickly
The Governor Stone! My brother Steven tennis worked (marine carpentry) on the boat back in the day.
I heard she was badly damaged in a storm? ;-(
It is so sweet hearing you crooning over that poor boat "That's not termites. That is being broken in half."
you are my kinda people - Floridians thru and through.
"Saucey Sailor" music perfect finish to your interview with the Formosa 51, that was heartbreaking.
Awhh thank you. Yeah the Governor Stone was really badly …I don’t even want to say damaged because the boat is basically dead now, but… actually it’s sitting a few blocks from our house! My good friend Anderson was commissioned to rebuilt it but they haven’t raised the money. There’s a workshop there and we wanted to do a tour of the workshop and show the Gov in a video but we just haven’t done it. I think that will end up being a video for this summer though! We may be using the workshop.
@@TheSirensLog I will share your comment with my brother. I know he cared a great deal for that boat and he may be retiring from the National Park Service soon.
What is the boat in the background with the blue forklift in front at the 24:25 mark? Happy New Years to y'all. BTW HAL, "SHES PRECIOUS" lolol
Good eye old guy
Hahahahah yeah yeah, alright I think that's an Irwin. Daren gave us the lowdown on it but I forgot what it was. Maybe I can get her on here to chime in.
Sorry that other comment is me accidentally writing from our other new channel.
nice looking malamute
Thanks! He’s half Akita and half husky actually. We’re fostering him and he’s looking for his forever home!
A project boat is a bit of an understatement. I saw a very big restoration project in a boat building yard that teaches restoration to trainees wanting to learn. This was down to the frame in Newport RI.
If love to do something like that, but frankly, nooooooooo way!!!! Hahahah We are ready to use the boat. I hope hoping our friend would maybe take the little wooden boat and rebuild it, but it would be difficult to move over to his shop. The Formosa is a bit much too. It’s not that we couldn’t, and I feel like everyone on the channel is ticked off we haven’t bought something and gutted it yet but that’s not the plan! Never was. We want something that’s a deal and requires some work and maybe a light refit, but I don’t want to be on the hard for years. We are water people, but shipyard people.
For those few who are truly interested in the extensive rebuild and restoration work, I could see the Mikelson as a very expensive but viable project. For anyone who wants to sail and live on a boat in the next 2-4 years, it's a project for someone else.@@TheSirensLog
Please do a full episode on moldy bread!
Hahahaha I hope we never have that opportunity!!!
That Formosa would take decades to restore. Im sure you'll find the one when it shows up.
I sure hope! We’d hoped to look at some over the holidays but no one would show us around new years.
Firewood boats
Dont make me cry.
Sorry that other comment is me accidentally writing from our other new channel.
I live in Orlando. It's not supposed to be this cold here in Florida. Globbal warming strikes again.
Yeah it’s ways too cold. I lived in cocoa beach for over a decade and there were only about two days a year I couldn’t surf. lol
Hi guys, the mould is penicillin it won’t kill you LOL just doesn’t look very good. Keep up the good work love the videos Cliff from Logan City Queensland Australia
Hahah Thank you Cliff! Happy to have you here!
I am romantic about the Formosa 51 sailboat. A groovy pirate ship or sorts.
Yes it is. Thanks for watching!
Interesting. From what I have seen, you would spend just as much work on a "ready to sail" but needing some cosmetic work boat that cost a lot more.... at least that seems to be what I see people doing. For a "new" looking boat, at least on the onside, one has to work on pretty much every inch of surface. One is looking at an engine rebuild at least, possibly a new engine, pretty much replace any nav gear more than about 10years old and still redo the hull, at least below the waterline. All mechanical equipment will need to be serviced or replaced, winches, blocks, rigging over 10 years old, etc. It is the same if the boat is abandoned or being sold as ready to go. On the other hand, if one is just looking to go sailing and can live with the interior as is, paying a little more for ready to go is a better deal. Your particular search is a hard one. Take your time, be willing to walk away from anything, stay away from boats owned by more than one owner (though a couple is normally ok) because one owner will agree and the one you can't talk to will not.
You’re right. And yes, that’s where we are- needing a boat that’s almost ready to go but needs work. I just don’t want to do a complete refit and spend months or years on the hard. I know you can find deals when boats need some work but are still really sound, and that’s what we need. We need a deal and we can do the work.
Any boat sitting in a boat yard for more than one year and needs work, the best price is FREE!
Hahah We agree, in a lot of cases!
Please tell me where this yard is at,I have seen two different boats that I would love to see about
It’s a place called Dockside in Carabelle, FL. Please go rescue some boats!!! Hahaha
I hate to say it but you could get rid of 99% of all those boats and no one would miss them. At some point the rot is simply so bad that to "rehab" the boat would essentially be making an entirely new boat. Have a giant bonfire party and make room for the hundreds of new old boats to take their place in a months time.
You're not wrong, and it's really sad. But I don't have the heart to do it!
Ok that last comment was me accidently writing from our other NEW channel lol. Oh my God now I have to go through and tell everyone the comments are actually from me.
I'm interested in the 1946 wooden boat you said was available for restoring. Where is it exactly. I am in Australia. Am I wasting my/your time?
That boat should still be available! +1 850 697 3337 is their number or lookup Dockside, which is a shipyard/marina in Carabelle FL USA.
14:39 This boat is like 90% body area burn victim. She is standing but she's dead...
when you find and move onto your boat, how much will you sell your vw van for? i.e., quote from The Who's song : "Magic Bus" "I want it i want it I want it... No too much.. love you guys
Haha Not for sale! Sorry. I have three VW’s. Two were my grandpas and one I just bought for my grandma. We started another channel called Another VW Channel! You might like that!
Eat them buns
Lol I ain’t eatin a hun that moldy. It was pretty bad!!
walk away--Love another day----Mikey
Yeaaaah this one is a bit much.
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4:37 if you can see it on the outside turned already with bread
Cheese you can cut i
Lol
This interior looks better than the last one
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I want a boat like this design
We do too!! Hahahah Well, the Mikelson that we’ve done a few videos on is up for sale for $139k Lemme know if you’re interested!
love the intro music. who's that playing?
That's called Savannah Sunshine by Dan Henig. I pulled it from the TH-cam music library so I'm not sure where else you might find it. I'm sure you can google it and ind it somewhere!
Wipe the mold off with wet cloth , can toast it if really a fear and speculation human , it's perfectly fine to eat
Well, we didn’t have a good way to toast and the tops of those buns have so many crevices that there was no way to wipe it off. It was all down in there! Lol no thanks! Didn’t need the carbs anyway.
Even for nothing those boats are too expensive !
Hahaha pretty much! We plan to actually use them too soon for these guys.
Im extremely interested in the 46' in the garage ...Do you mind if I reach out to Devin or jake?
Absolutely not! By all means, please get in touch with them. The place is called Dockside Marina in Carabelle FL www.google.com/search?q=dockside+carabelle+fl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#
thank you i have already researched the address and phone I will be calling in the morning!!! Thank you VERY MUCH!@@TheSirensLog
Welcome to the marina of hell
Ahh it’s not that bad
Y'all need to come camp with the Full Moon Bus Club over New Year's Eve! Pisgah Bus Rally (PBR). Brevard, NC. :-)
Oh cool! We’re actually headed to camp as we speak with our local club Rare Air out of Pensacola, FL right now at the Freeze Your A$$ Off camping trip.
If you like the VW stuff, we actually started a new channel! Hahaha everytime we do VW stuff here, we lose subscribers so we have two channels now fml. It’s called Another VW Channel!
Ha ha! I found you on the VW channel. I'm a sailor and VW bus driver, so I've subscribed to both channels! 🙂@@TheSirensLog
haha Nice!! Thank you!!!! Let us know if you guys come down this way!@@carlnyberg2934
No after berth ... LOL
mold: bread :: paint : drying.
Huh?
None of those boats are seaworthy, but they could have a second life if you were to take an acre of land and get as many old wooden boats as you can find, and convert the insides to a rental space. Cut the bottom out of it , set it on the ground….
Awhhhh, but you’d still have to rebuild so much of it to do that, may as well just make it a boat again!
What would they be asking for the formosa
Not sure, but honestly I think they just want it out of there. It’s at Dockside in Carabelle FL if you’re interested!
Not worth shit when new and now needs100k to be half seaworthy.
Where are these boats located?
Carabelle FL at Dockside. They are being demolished as we speak so if you see something you like CALL THEM!
Be ware of free boats. A free anchor is of no use to a swimmer and big boats are big problems.
Yep! We agree.
I got 2 free boats 2023 in Sweden. Both of them are in very good shape snd ready to sail. This is my boats number 44 and 45 in my life. So i know wery what to look after. This year i will sell one foor good profit , the second one i will sail from Sweden to Spain and keep it there. But i agree i have seen boats i absolutely say NO to . There are to many wrecks around , not worth trying to repaire ! I got my boats in Sweden
One of them 1 owner boat ,stored very well for 11 years. She got her first sailing 2023 after many years on the hard.
Nice! Sounds like you got a deal. Of course, boats in Sweden are probably in better shape, as a whole, than boats in Florida. haha@@noasailing27feet
That palm tree came from a coconut that fell through a hole in the bilge.
Hahahahaha You might be right.
What a sad collection of derelict boats. That Formosa 51 would be an awful project to restore. Buy it for $10, spend several years and $150,000 rebuilding it, and you will end up with a boat that sails like a half-tide rock and will sell for $50,000. Truly sluggish performance, requires 10+ knots of wind to sail at 3 knots.
Yeah but there’s a market for that. However, I believe it would cost a great deal more than $150k when you factor the interior rot.
Rust is easy compared to rotting wood
True
There are spores all over it.
At this point someone should get it and make an Air B & B on dry land cause she will never sail again !
Poor thing. I fear you’d have to rip out so much rot. I think the interior of that boat needs at least as much work as the exterior. The rest of the bit didn’t really scare me that bad, honestly. It’s the ripping out all the rotten wood that I don’t like. If you rip the Taiwan out of a boat is it even a boat anymore? 🤣
Salvage the engine the rigging and interior ands YOU MIGHT BREAK EVEN ! LOL@@TheSirensLog
it is so sad to see such art go to waste like this...
It’s SO sad. 😞
too much work for such old wood
Yeah we really don’t want to strip an entire interior.
one moldy bun in a bag means all the bread is contaminated...you really shouldn't eat it
Hey, I didn’t! Hal did!
Waste not want not. My grandparents were depression babies and my parents are baby boomers. I've always picked it off.
I was taught that moldy cheese is ok, just cut it off, but that moldy bread could hurt you.
Ok SIRENS LOG Tell us why you are not posting??Did you LOSE the dream?
Well! A few things… we look a moment to streamline the channel which meant starting a second channel- Another VW Channel since no one over here like VW content. That took a good bit of time, if you see what we’re in the middle of over there. Also, as a yacht broker I’ve been slammed this last couple of months!! Multiple boats selling at once and just haven’t been able to get away to go look at boats. Now the kitten has just been spayed so we have to keep her contained inside and uneaten by the giant foster dog who also lives inside so that’s interesting but also keeps us from leaving. I did post another video of a day in my life because that literally shows what I’ve been so busy with and everyone just complained about how I was talking on the phone in the car which is completely legal in Florida. So I took it down because I’m way too busy and stressed to deal with the TH-cam negativity right now. So! Here we are. We do have another video ready for next week for a gorgeous little boat we looked at locally that we would totally buy but there’s another on the east coast we have to see first. Both are smaller but prices on them are amazing so we could upgrade later and start having some fun now. We can’t sail off anywhere too far away yet anyway. Hal is coming up on charter season and I have listings to sell. Plus the foster dog. Can’t do much until we find him a good home. Which is fine! So shorter trips all this year, probably a trip out west in the VWs in the fall on the other channel, and then 2025 is up for grabs!
I bet she was beautiful in her prime. Shame that is not now.
I know it. And it would be several million to build it now!
dont eat bread from same pack if ANY mould ?,,, it has spread "you dont have to see it to know it",,, ok to toast but dont breath in the spores
Yeah we don’t have a toaster on the bus. And it was too much to pick off. You should see all the comments with all of the different mold opinions though! Hahahah Some people telling us it’s fine, others saying it’s not, even though there was that guy who ate bread mold and then had to have half his face removed. Haha 😂 Yeah I’m just not going to eat it. lol. Thanks for watching and for the comment! Please subscribe
My gma that lived through the depression broke me of food coodies. Waste not want not.
Ever heard of penicillin? Nobody has ever died from eating a moldy crust, if it was rye bread you mught have got a trip out of it ( ergot ) You americans are such fucking babies.
My friend Sunny Duncan formerly with Duncan Marine Enterprises, Taiwan. Will be emailing you soon....to talk boats. :-)
Oh yeah???
Yeah, 50 years ago they were one of the three yacht builders in Taiwan. The other two being C.Y.Chen, and the Chiao Brothers.
Formosa boats have thin hull. Never get one!
Thin?!?! Whaaaaa?
i have seen a wrack by jabal et tair in the redsea. waterline about 6mm. formosa yacht not the taiwanyachts. they are stronger
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thanks!!
Love Carrabelle......actually had bought a westerly there many yrs ago.....is the fishermans wife take out there still ? and the pig place down the street.......I lived on st. george as well as carrabelle.........used boat market is kaput. now they're freebies that aint so freebie...be careful.
I thought it was still there but I can’t swear to it. That was a good place- haven’t been in years. Piggly Wiggly still there yep.
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What happens at 9:05?
Forty degrees. Funny.
That’s freezing!!! Kinda. We have humidity with it so it feels like hell frozen over.
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Sorry that other comment is me accidentally writing from our other new channel.
The steel boat was junk rig I would say, not looking like a Bruce Roberts.
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Bruce Roberts had a few different styles.
Steel boat was most likely a Tom Colvin design. He was known for metal hulls and junk rigs in many different sizes.
That sounds right!
Two "lemmeknows" in one yard.
Whats that mean
There were two boats in that yard you wanted someone to save. You said "let me know..." lemmeknow. @@TheSirensLog
I grew up in Pensacola. Seen it get co!d.
Yeah it gets crazy up here!
Junk !!!
One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.
in ith developed world,carrion searchers have a certain status, camping in v w ? many european countries would refuse you entry ,tragicly u tube is being overrun by bottom rung selfies , the con is to get idiots to subscribe
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Nobody wants to go to Europe anyway
I have camped across Europe in a VW van less nice than theirs