Man builds rad trimaran sailboat in yard, now it’s stuck there
- April 20th, 2008
- 21 Comments
We’re all for DIY, sometimes when you want to do something right you have to do it yourself and all that. You should plan ahead though. Don’t be like this Brit who spent five years hand-building a dream yacht only to find when it was completed it was too large to move from his yard.
Oops indeed.
The trimaran yacht looks badass, sure, but until he can afford a crane and truck, it’s sadly landlocked.











Marc M. (Who am I?)
5 months ago
he’ll have the final laugh once the world floods.
Jon (Who am I?)
5 months ago
I wonder if this guy grew a long white beard during the process? That is a beautiful ship though…
Jon
http://dreamclue.com …get the message!
Simon (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Did you guys even read the whole article? He doesn’t need a crane, he knew this from the beginning, he just has to take down part of his fence and get some people over to lift it onto a trailer.
zmarn (Who am I?)
5 months ago
“RAF St Mawgan used to airlift boats for people in similar situations as me and used it as a training opportunity.
“But apparently they don’t do that anymore - so I am going to have to take the fence down to get the boat out now.”
RBasil (Who am I?)
5 months ago
As usual Matt does not even bother to read the entire article in question before spewing his thoughts.
crane_man (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Also there is this thing called a crane. Perhaps the people that think this was news worthy enough to write about this have heard of one?
RutoMail.com (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Register and add that to the gallery at RutoMail.com
http://rutomail.com/gallery2/main.php
Good stuff!
mark
5 months ago
well really he got two big things wrong here.
the first thing he did wrong was build a trimaran.
SECOND was the whole yard thing.
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Giles F (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Mark,
you are a buffoon.
An arrogant, self opinionated, narrow minded buffoon.
The ama’s clearly come off.
crane’s are easy
nothing 20 friends and five cases of beer wont sort out
Joe Mama (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Noah!
PCNews (Who am I?)
5 months ago
global warming will solve the quest.
Jason Rodriguez (Who am I?)
5 months ago
That’s too bad. Gorgeous boat.
business (Who am I?)
5 months ago
If the yacht weighs less than 44 tons, he can have it lifted with a Russian Mil Mi-2 helicopter. That is one nice piece of machinery, the yacht I mean. Well, the helicopter too.
Insane_Machine (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Way to not read the article before blogging about it.
FTA:
“It’s not as though I’m some idiot who got the measurements wrong and is now stuck with a boat he can’t move,” he said.
“I knew from the start that once the boat was finished I would face some problems getting it out of the garden.”
Lowan (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Honestly, Daily Mail is one of the worse newspaper in Britain! The owner is a porn peddler and the paper lacks any form of professionalism. The boat is a beauty and props to the man for building it but is it really news worthy?
Giles F (Who am I?)
5 months ago
nobody in their right mind reads the Daily Mail
like the Express, it should be called the Daily Madeliana
Anonymous
5 months ago
damn straight rtfa
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You stupid bastards (Who am I?)
5 months ago
a) Do you really think he didn’t know this was going to happen?
b) How do you know this story is even real, it’s just a photograph
c) So when he gets the money he cabn finally get a crane and launch his boa?
what’s the big deal you stupid cunts
Tony Cabot (Who am I?)
5 months ago
It looks to me that this is an F32 designed by Ian Farrier for homebuilders. It weighs about 3,000 lbs dry, the floats do not disassemble, instead it folds down to 8′6″ beam (9′8″ for the AX version) and obviously is relatively easy to put on a trailer.
Kevin (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Global warming would certainly be his solution. IF it were true, that is. B)
Fishing Quiz (Who am I?)
5 months ago
i want to be put in contact with this guy Id help him out if he is willing to sell it i want to check out the inside