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3 December 2018 at 09:40 #9275
Matthew Roe
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3 December 2018 at 09:40 #80142
Matthew Roe
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@matthewroe22777
Hello forum members,

I am new to this forum because I would like to find a completed model of PS Waverley for my wife Claire as a Christmas present. Claire grew up on the west coast of Scotland in Largs and the Waverley featured throughout her childhood. We now live in North Norfolk but take trips on PS Waverley whenever possible.

I am looking for something approximately 3 feet long to sit on a window ledge overlooking the coast road in Cley-next-the-Sea where we live. We moved here last December after Claire suffered liver failure of unknown origin and had a successful liver transplant. If anyone can point me in the direction of someone with a beautifully built boat potentially for sale then i would be most grateful.

I have seen the models available from Vietnam but imagine there may be better quality build on this forum **LINK**

Thank you for any advice,

Matthew
3 December 2018 at 09:50 #80143
Matthew Roe
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Perhaps I should add that a length of any size would be interesting to me. Thank you, Matthew
3 December 2018 at 14:16 #80146
ashley needham
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Hi Matthew and welcome to the forum.

It may boil down to how much you want to pay.

A decently constructed boat, with lots of detail and likely in working order will be quite expensive, assuming you can find one. The constructor will have spent AGES making the boat, and also will have spent a fair amount of money doing so.

Having had a quick look at the link, you do seem to get quite a nice model, one which would look good on a shelf…other than I didn't see a price on it. Any idea how much they are?

Ashley
3 December 2018 at 15:27 #80150
Colin Bishop
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It looks like this one:

**LINK**

Colin
3 December 2018 at 16:12 #80151
Empire Parkstone
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3 December 2018 at 20:28 #80162
Matthew Roe
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@matthewroe22777
Thank you for the prompt replies and photograph too.

Ashley, I believe they are about £275 plus postage from the USA. I also agree a lot of careful work will have gone into any detailed model, and fully expect to pay for this. I hope someone on this forum will contact me with a proposal.

Matthew
3 December 2018 at 20:35 #80163
Colin Bishop
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They look quite nice models at a reasonable price. But do bear in mind that any model left on a window ledge is likely to deteriorate from the effect of UV rays over a period of time. The paint will fade and cracks may appear. Models should be displayed out of direct sunlight.

As far as this forum is concerned, not many people build models of Waverley and those that do will tend to keep them so it is not very likely that you will get any offers.

Colin
3 December 2018 at 20:42 #80165
ashley needham
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To be honest that's not such a bad price for quite a nice shelf ship, considering (but the postage is plus 50%!).

Having had a quick surf I cant see any Waverly kits, but a decent one would likely be twice that price and then there would be the cost/time for construction PLUS other materials and paints. It all adds up.

I suppose it depends on how good a model you want?

Ashley
3 December 2018 at 20:43 #80166
Matthew Roe
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Thank you Colin for the advice. Fortunately the window is north facing and in the shade at all times. I appreciate it is unlikely anyone will want to part with their carefully built Waverley, but I thought it worth asking just in case. Matthew
4 December 2018 at 13:27 #80175
William Humphries
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theres this one on flea bay

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113421071483?ul_noapp=true
4 December 2018 at 13:42 #80176
Bob Abell 2
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There may be a plastic kit option?

Bob
4 December 2018 at 14:03 #80178
Dave Milbourn
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You could try contacting Mike Mayhew here **LINK**

His obsessiion with PS Waverley is equally as strong as mine with Fairey Marine powerboats, and he's been at it a lot longer. He's also one the nicest blokes you could wish to meet – a real gentleman.

Dave M
4 December 2018 at 14:37 #80180
ashley needham
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Looks like one of the foreign models. A bargain then at that price!

Ashley
5 December 2018 at 14:45 #80208
Matthew Roe
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@matthewroe22777
Hi Ashley and William, and everyone else. Mike did kindly contact me and in the end I decided to buy the one on EBay for £250, as it really seemed like quite a bargain. Let’s hope it is in good nick and I will let you know how my wife Claire reacts after Christmas Day! Best wishes, Matthew
5 December 2018 at 15:37 #80209
Colin Bishop
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It is a very nice looking model and you certainly won't do better at that sort of price.

Colin
6 December 2018 at 20:18 #80234
neil hp
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you certainly have a penchant for living in beautiful parts of the UK, Matthew……we have been visiting Largs as a family on holidays for the past 20 years……..love the Clyde and love Largs…….great lovely and quiet for young children to feel safe in, and sailing regularly on Waverley and the calmac ferries gave my daughter to plan her life and career to involve the sea and ships………and what can I say about Cley…….another beautiful little village with an incredible windmill which I have been up several times………my brother in law used to be the Methodist Superintendent minister for the North Norfolk area..is the lively little Deli still open at the west end of the village.

I hope you enjoy and love your model, as I have always fancied building a Waverley to the same scale as my Jupiter [see the album on her] but just cannot find a grp hull big enough, sadly………anyway……….nice to meet [people who I can relate to……I also hope you love the NNCoast………and if you are interested in old lifeboats there is a chap just up the coast from Cley, who restores them and has two in the water down at Wells…..his base is at Stiffkey…….take a trip….he does some wonderful work. neil.
6 December 2018 at 20:23 #80235
neil hp
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dave you are a star, giving that link to Mike Mayhew…………….I have been tryinmg to find it for a few months…..got to ask him if he still does the hull for the larger Waverley, and the paddle wheel set………..I will venture to message him in the next day or two. cheers. neil.

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 06/12/2018 20:23:59
6 December 2018 at 20:51 #80236
Matthew Roe
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@matthewroe22777
Yes Neil, Largs and Cley are both wonderful. My wife Claire grew up in Largs sailing dinghies and with her father in a clinker boat. We love to go back there and the west coast of Scotland.

We retired to Cley last year after Claire was quite ill but now mostly recovered. David Hewiit has shown us around Rescue Wooden Boats in Stiffkey (he has barns full of wooden former lifeboats) and his brother George built my wife’s Stiffkey Cockle dinghy which we sail and race from Morston Creek into the Blakeney pit and the seal colony. I have been visiting this area for 50 years starting with my father who was a wildlife artist, and for the past 30 years with Claire and my children.

After moving to Cley I joined the effort to reopen our Harbour which was once one of the largest in Europe. Here is some film of the biggest commercial boat to visit Cley in the last 60 years:

**LINK**

Best wishes, Matthew
6 December 2018 at 21:32 #80237
Matthew Roe
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@matthewroe22777
Just realised I didn’t mention the Picnic Fayre deli is still thriving, as is Holkham Bay (the most beautiful beach), and the Norfolk Coastal Path. We are very happy here and our children too when the come home.
6 December 2018 at 22:26 #80238
neil hp
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@neilhp
its a beautiful part of Britain Matthew……….enjoy your retirement down there……I envy you.
6 December 2018 at 23:04 #80239
Chris Fellows
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@chrisfellows72943
Did you buy it Matthew? Looked to be just what you wanted at a very reasonable price.
7 December 2018 at 05:35 #80240
Matthew Roe
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@matthewroe22777
I did Chris and am awaiting delivery. Matthew
7 December 2018 at 18:28 #80248
Chris Fellows
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@chrisfellows72943
Nice one Matthew. I must have replied without reading the other posts as I see now that you mentioned that you had!

We also know that area of Norfolk pretty well, the family used to have a house in Wells-Next-The-Sea, where we had a speed boat that we used at Wells and Blakeney.

We've been back a few times, the last time being in September for my wife's birthday, with us stopping just outside Hunstanton. We drove along the coast road visiting all the places that we used to and had lunch at the Dun Cow, Salthouse, like we'd done previously.

Chris
21 December 2018 at 11:11 #80373
Colin Bishop
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Here is a link to the manufacturers. A breathtaking selection of models.Slightly depressing if you are a scratchbuilder…

http://www.gianhien.net/model/signs_15.htm

Colin

Edited By Colin Bishop on 22/12/2018 09:26:41
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