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   MTB71 is a "daughter" of MTB102 which was DuCanes's masterpiece and the forerunner of all the Vosper Boats through to the Braves. It took  20 years to better the design and increase trhe performance and we at the MTB102 Trust are very proud of the fact that we are managing to keep her operational through our own efforts alone.
£4m to restore a boat? Must be the gravy train at the station. Most of that will end up in other pockets and not the boat. Phil Clabburn, the Wizard and I all have much the same view on the cost of restoration and the figures are nowhere near that level.

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Magic Fingers Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 19 March 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 113	Post Options Post Reply Quote Magic Fingers Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 July 2007 at 8:53pm
	MTB71 is a "daughter" of MTB102 which was DuCanes's masterpiece and the forerunner of all the Vosper Boats through to the Braves. It took 20 years to better the design and increase trhe performance and we at the MTB102 Trust are very proud of the fact that we are managing to keep her operational through our own efforts alone. £4m to restore a boat? Must be the gravy train at the station. Most of that will end up in other pockets and not the boat. Phil Clabburn, the Wizard and I all have much the same view on the cost of restoration and the figures are nowhere near that level.
	If it ain't broke don't fix it!

clive Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 11 December 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 379	Post Options Post Reply Quote clive Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 July 2007 at 9:24pm
	Phew, I was wondering where to get 4 million from, how far do we recon 1 million would go towards Medusa? I can see how things mount up if you work from one end to the other replacing everything. I don't think I am totally green but do realise I have very much to learn. This said, and I also know it is not my business, but where does that much money go? that said I could see golden galleon costing that. Edited by clive
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tramontana Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 06 April 2007 Status: Offline Points: 418	Post Options Post Reply Quote tramontana Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 July 2007 at 12:14pm
	I have to agree with magic fingers regarding the cost of the E-Boat restoration and bow to both his, Phil's and Wizard's working knowledge of how much these thing's cost to restore in fact there is a very good letter in one of the shipping mag's this month regarding lottery funding and the fact that it appears to be a lot cheaper to build a replica than repair the origonal, the author felt that the estimate of 35million was over the top for the Cutty Sark's repairs and is unhappy that the what I would term "in your face projects" like Sark, Mary Rose & Great Britian are gobbling up most of the Heritage lottery funding with very little left for other maritime historical projects, as I indicated in a previous contribution unless people have deep pocket's to fund project's themselves the chances of a "Dog Boat" from some burnt timber's or ever getting funding for 506 are near impossible so people have to be realistic as to what can be done when thinking about some of the project's that have been mentioned in the past on this Forum

johnk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 25 March 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1355	Post Options Post Reply Quote johnk Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 July 2007 at 12:21pm
	Hi There, Agree with tramontana, high profile projects as he mentions are just burning through HLF money like it was going out of fashion. I guess the D from burnt timbers would be me, well, I know the reality of things, believe me working with another historic ship!. But this unfortunaley is what inspires me and others to try at least, I would say nearly every historic ship that we have, started with a few wanting to save it and many saying don't bother, why bother, it's impossible etc etc including the one I am working on now. I don't say just keep going regardless, there has to be some limit and sadly a number of vessels have hit that limit. Said all this before, "we" need to try and sort what if anything more we can or should save or just say we are happy with what we have and that's it. JohnK