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    Posted: 07 September 2010 at 12:21am
I did a search on the forum to see if this had been mentioned, but I can't find any reference.

Someone please save Golden Galleon!
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Oh sod it!

Quote Despite efforts to save her, she was deemed a potentional navigation hazard and was scrapped a couple of months after the images below were taken.


Nothing left to save....Angry
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Whitelady Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 September 2010 at 10:58pm
Sorry Mr C...

I have some pics of her somewhere being broken up at St Olaves...
You don't own a boat, a boat owns you.
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What an absolute crying shame. I don't understand how someone can do that. Ok, it may not have been in great condition, but she was still floating on her how keel. Why couldn't they have given her to someone who would have saved her?
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£1000s of pounds of overdue broads tolls, fear of her breaking up on route to a boatyard for repair etc etc


basically rubbish but, whats gone is gone
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What a load of poppycock!

ah well....
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she was rotten as a pear, she had been bodged up and planking was falling off!
the waterline was so tender you could have put your hand through in places!
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Still worth saving. Well.. I think so. But then the Fairmiles are probably my favourite boat. Embarrassed
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But it'd have still been cheaper to build a replica.
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Not the point. The replica didn't fight for King and country, smuggling agents into occupied France, or single handed chase down a U-Boat tyring to sink a packed troop ship. Wink
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