For Sale; Tinker Tramp; Sailing and liferaft version; £150.00
Red Hyperlon tubes, blue bow dodger, yellow/orange liferaft canopy, old style fully removable inflation valves. Small “Made by Andrew Butt” Henshaws plate still firmly in place in transom recess. No tube patches in our time, spray dodger recently reinforced at bow with Henshaws Hyperlon fabric.
£150.00 Price to include;
Tinker Tramp inflatable, original foot pump, original long sea bladed oars, original life raft canopy and it’s blue bag, original life raft drogue and painter, original ‘deflated size’ Tinker cover, plus the hardware for sailing and canopy fitting on transom*.
More pictures of it inflated with canopy and bits available by e-mail. Rows well, chugs along with just a 3.5hp outboard and 4 people up. Has stayed inflated OK for three days so far, but think the Starboard inner life raft tube may leak into main tube. Floorboards need touching in with white paint. Bow dodger starboard hoop socket was split when bought, so modified the system for scrambling over bows onto crowded dinghy pontoons without tears & a tear in the dodger. Tows OK when needful.
Reason for selling; A Husband’s declining twitch muscle; we brought it home for it’s annual spring tidy up, and found it even heavier to move around deflated and inflated than last year. “We” therefore decided “We” needed to get something lighter and easier to handle on and off the boat.
*sold to us 7 years ago without rudder, centreboard, mast, sails or running rigging. The 2xCo2 part inflation cylinders came to us badly corroded and empty, and unsurprisingly, were promptly condemned by our local industrial gas supplier.
We took the sailing hardware and canopy hooks off the wooden bits, as it was used as our yacht tender, but they and some extra bits we bought will be sold with it- always meant to make a sailing rig up, but ...
Contact; Dick Tyrrell; e-mail; (m); 07939 240289
Can deliver Eastbourne to Southampton