60’ Admiralty Seagoing Motorboat

It depends on what your eventual aim for the vessel is.

Look at the Carrick ex City of Adelaide. Also at Irving. She will never go back to sea without loosing her historical integrity. However she can be restored for display just like the Cutty Sark.

However the Cutty Sark was a national treasure because of her historical content. Due to her fire she will now be rebuild and I bet she will be almost capable of being sent back to sea, E.G no historical fabric left.

What I’m trying to say is the Carrick wont be displayed like the Cutty due to lack of interest (though she is in many ways much more important) and the fact that she can’t be used in an active fashion without losing her historical fabric.

Now that argument has been sidestepped by the Cutty Sark yet the Carrick will end up cut up into sections and spread around the world.

An historically accurate ship wont be saved but a bloody copy will end up sitting in dry dock!!!

My personal view is that the national and historical attitude to saving ships/vessels need to be changed if our grandkids are to see any of these vessels. Even copies.

The Cutty Sark is a prime example of what should take place. Preserve as much as possible until its unpractical and then replace and restore, even if you end up with a copy. Don’t be too fascinated by the thought of keeping ships sea worthy, Christ how many people will have seen the Cutty Sark over the years if she’d been at sea? Perversely enough in the years to come we may just see the Cutty Sark spread her canvas and got for a sale.

As for the 1262, well yes if she ever goes to sea she will end up a replica, not such a bad thing.

Here’s a strange thought, the remains of the 1262 last in various ownership for the next 20 years, all the other pinnaces are long gone, who’s the idiot then?

Having said that id happily take the Asco in trade J

Yes that reminds me, I owe you 30 pounds to cover the copying costs of the information and plans that you so kindly gave me regarding the RAF Pinnace 1262. Head somewhere else sorry. (No excuse I know.)

I will attend to it tomorrow.

As for giving up on the 1262. Well not just yet. I’m just patching up my cargo boat (MTB 506) in Malta to bring the timber back.

Don’t get me wrong, if she is in the way I will arrange for her to be broken, however while the museum is willing to wait for me then she still has a chance.

Your more than welcome to put money down on the outcome.