MTB 506

Gentlemen,

Very many thanks your kind offer postings, will follow up..many thanks again.

It is a shame in regard's to 506 as I remember her from powerboating day's however I hope she will not be chopped up but cleared and given to the fishes like her sister ship was. There was no doubt about the keeness of the people involved but I thought they would have realised that the people who have previously owned these boat's do not give them away unless they are beyond economic repair even with the cheaper labour rates in Malta, that along with the distance involved made the project unlikely to succeed and I speak as a person who has been involved with boats since 1947. From what I have read in the  marine press there are certainly problems with obtaining funding for wartime marine preservation projects never mind 506 and this has to be taken into account before starting a project, unless you have deep pockets. Medusa must have had a very good grant application writer and he should set himself up in business or they were very lucky to get the amount they obtained.

Like Tramontana I have also read that her sistership was scuttled rather than broken up. It is a fact that you are very keen to get your hand's on a boat I think everybody appreciates that but you do seem to be a bit blinkered on what is or is not a viable project which I had put down to your inexperience on hull construction bearing in mind you are a mechanic and you have yourself said you know very little about wooden hulls and how to repair them in the past. But it has to be said you are a trier.