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Originally posted by dgray dgray wrote:


I've been thinking about buying an old ASR boat and restoring it (as I'm sure many others have). It has slowly dawned on me that, no mater how I try, a 60 something foot boat project is more than one man (this man anyway) can handle.

There seem to be a lot of people out there interested in old boats but everyone else seems to have figured that they cannot do it on their own.

A solution would be a  boat share scheme where a group of like minded souls club together and buy & maintain an old boat. This would make it affordable, fun and everyone could enjoy and learn something.  By putting our hands in our pockets, it might even ensure commitment.

I know boat sharing has been done before but I'm not sure if a scheme like this has.  If course there would need to be all sorts of agreements / articles  etc drawn up and a hundred other things that need to be sorted out but it is possible.


My questions are:

1. Has anyone had experience of this type of ownership and could they offer any (positive!!) advice.

2. Is anyone interested in the concept.


Thanks

 
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What point are you making here 'stickytoria'?
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Sounds like a good idea but suggest you look into the problems experienced by the Trust itself over managing/restoring/funding boats.

You may also like to talk with Richard H in the first instance to get his spin on boat share management. 

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Positive advice on boat share? don't do it, yes it sounds good but it is a minefield because it is in your best interest to get everything down in writing and signed, that in itself can cause problems, as these days people seem to be reluctant to sign anything, I have just read in a boating mag that one of the large boat-share companies has just gone down the pan in a big way and from what I can remember the "misunderstanding" over the length of the lease on the Husband's yard started the problems at B.M.P.T. as nobody appeared  (from what I understand) to have signed a legally binding agreement, in today's World verbal agreements and a shake of the hand are in  most  cases a waste of time unfortunatly it  sad to say.
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Yes Ron, I think that was the challenger syndicate, they operate here on the Broads.
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