Thread: yalta 1600 offshore

Only a little boat, I think its wrong to label a boat off shore. I had a 20 footer that was off shore capable and spent a lot of time upto 70km off shore.
That said yalta is a well know hull brand and would appear to have a reasonably match motor. Take a real good look at the transom remembering that sitting around getting an ingress of fresh water into the transom will do more damage than saltwater. Have a good heavy jump on the floor and check for flex. reomove the drainplug and check for water (color and smell), if there is rot in the timber stringers you can smell it.
cheers
blaze

Thanks- good advice, I'd really prefer a newer ally boat & I'm hesitant to buy an old glass one(been there), but this one looks real good for it's age (been kept in shed) and I can afford it, whereas it'll be a few years before I can afford what I want.
Brett

Thanks for the posts guys.
In the next 12 months I hope to buy a boat.Im in the same predicament.Buy a cheap doer upper with no experience that I can afford or wait till I can buy a good unit.
Andrew

A lot of joy can be rebuilding an old hull. Hull design hasnt changed that dramaticly over the last 50 years. My last boat was a 20 foot "hartley" design, great sea boat. It come about by the guy I purchased it off turned a 20 foot ply hartly upside down and took a mould off it and built the boat. Old proven design with modern materials in fibaglass. I did a parcial rebuild when I first got it and in the third year I had it I got caught 50km off shore in 6 metre seas, standing straight up with no backs in them. Had a couple of free falls and broke her back. It was then I did a complete internal strip of all timber stringers etc and replaced them with fibaglass stringers and bulk heads.
If you are going to rebuild make sure you do it right as there is a lot of older boats out there with their problems masked.
cheers
blaze

Hey Brett,

there is a bloke down my way that has got hold of an old glass Haines forward control/runabout style boat in good nick and chopped it to make a great centre console out of it.
Provided you don't mind a bit of work, it's a great way to get a boat you want without paying a fortune.
I know you want a tinny, but my next boat will be fibreglass, and after having tinny's for quite a long time, you can't beat the ride of a decent glass boat.
Tinny's have their place, but for comfort/ride quality go the glass...

Cheers, Matt.

Originally Posted by UNDEROVER

Hey Brett,

there is a bloke down my way that has got hold of an old glass Haines forward control/runabout style boat in good nick and chopped it to make a great centre console out of it.
Provided you don't mind a bit of work, it's a great way to get a boat you want without paying a fortune.
I know you want a tinny, but my next boat will be fibreglass, and after having tinny's for quite a long time, you can't beat the ride of a decent glass boat.
Tinny's have their place, but for comfort/ride quality go the glass...

Cheers, Matt.

There was a similar project on a WA Fishing forum,Fishwrecked.
One of the members bought an old glass cabin cruiser for next to nothing,cut all the cabin out and made it into a centre console.
Looked good,did a top job,cant do that easily with a tinnie.
My preference is for a plate ali boat,but would consider doing the above if I got the donor real cheap
Andrew

its all a compromise Andy,,
anything good off shore will be very tender,, and anything remotely stable at rest will be terrible off shore,,

except a cat

procrastinated to long & missed out on boat- thanks for input, very nearly bought it, looks like I'll stay in the river with the tinny for now
Been sussing out some flat pack plate alloy boats that look ok & are reasonably priced- might have to invest in a TIG
Brett