Recent content by Apprentice

Thanks for your collective support and advice. Spent some more time crawling around inside this week with the surveyor and didn't find anything too scary. She has teak over glass on the decks with some leakage around the starboard fuel filler which is offset to the tank. Looking again they...

I am looking to purchase a 1981 36ft trawler that has sat completely idle for over 5 years. She requires engine work but I am interested in how I can check the fuel tanks for internal and external corrosion as renewing them would be a major (deal breaker) job. She has twin 600 litre yanks that...

Hello All I have caught boat disease and as the medications and therapy hasn't been effective here I am. I am in the market for an 80's 36-45' trawler in South Australia and have already been blown away by the goodwill and great knowledge that has been shared. Needless to say with no real...