7 Month restoration, ready for Dinghy Cruising 

Congratulations Clive and Jenny. You've done a wonderful job of restoring your sweet little boat. Hope you have many happy times on her. Thanks for an excellent video too.

It is best to always bag fenders. When the vinyl gets hot, atmospheric micro-dust and dirt attach to it, scratching the paint and glass. Bagging mitigates the damage. Fantastic effort from Clive and Jenny...

Great work to give them a sweet looking boat, well done.

Nice job, looks sharp. Really liked the curved bulkhead.

Great video, great story. I've been considering a similar path once I sell my 35ft keelboat. Learned a lot from the story. Thx

what a beautiful resto on that boat. My hat off to him. I sail a TS16 and yer my wife and i sleep separately. Inland cruising is great. We sail the Gippsland Lakes, out of Paynesville,vic.

Fantastic 🎉

My Dad bought an Investigator in the late seventies but there was no centre board, just the skeg. It was difficult to launch because we had shallow lee shores and upwind performance was not great and again that lee shore, but I do recall it was a real TARDIS. I also remember my Dad ruefully observing that the new boats had a centre board. Now that I am 60 I think it would made a fantastic raider. I wish them fair winds.

Beautiful restoration! My completely unrenovated 18' Tropic 520 (also early 1980s) has an arched mast support and my Cal14 (Hood) seems to have some gravity defying engineering integrated within the deck that requires neither post nor arch!

Thanks paul nice clip always happy to see a bost brought back to proper form i do truly believe they have souls

Very nice job! I had an Investigator 30 odd years ago. Launched it twice, then sold it. Getting it in and out of the water was just too hard.. A Compass Careel proved much easier.

another banner video Paul, you're skipper material!

Great video & loved what they did to their boat...it looks shipshape and Bristol fashion...well done!

Very nice tour of this boat!

Paul This old salt greatly enjoyed this wonderful video. I love the thorough reconditioning of the boat by the couple. Very nice. Paul in Canads

Great vid, fun to watch old boats being restored. Thanx.

Paul, you are so good at presenting a story I enjoyed this very much, thanks for your time and enthusiasm ⛵🐬🐬

I love the shape of the bulkhead by the V birth! a.k.a Hobbit hole.

Another great vid Paul. I hope to meet them on a raid one day and check out the centering rails on their trailer, as my boat occasionally runs off center when loading back on.

He did a good restoration. Reminds me of the CAL 14 of early 1980s but stretched. Love my SCAMP (wooden 12 footer) and must get on a lake soon Paul.

Great video on the best production trailer sailer ever built. Good to see another one restored and getting out there!

Clive and Jenny have done a lovely job of restoring their yacht. The Matilda's did pretty good too. I didnt see the game myself but heard all about it on this side of the "ditch".

Wonderful !! Well done !!

That is a fantastic restoration of a beautiful boat and a great review indeed! Thank You Paul for sharing and also to Clive and Jenny! As always, safe sailing and cheers mate!!..

What a nice job he has done. Looks a bit like my Monarch 17 i owned some time ago. Keep up the good work putting out these vidios.

Excellent resto. I'm in the US and I haven't seen a trailer sailboat for that money close to that nice. Great job.

Just a beautiful little boat! Thanks for sharing. Steady winds and flat seas to you both!

I'm envious! If I didn't live so far from navigable water ways, the Investigator would be my first choice for a trailer sailor. They have an excellent reputation for both comfort and safety. And what a lovely job Clive and Jenny have done, breathing life back into theirs. I hope that she brings them joy for many years to come. She's certainly something that they can be proud of, already. Well done!

Very nicely done! Love the original thinking

Beautiful restoration Thanks for sharing

Dream come true!!

What a great job they have done, I hope they get years of entertainment for their efforts!

They are a loverly little trailer sailer. I owned the last one built named "Procrastinator" sailed around Pittwater before we moved to Hobart & towed her down to Tassie. Had some great sails on the Derwent & Bruny Island. I sold her a few years later. I believe she's still in Tassie somewhere?

Great content

iva had a few trailer sailers and almost bought the investigator 563 they do sound a good boat to sail,hats off to you guys tho,you done a lovely job of that one,just give a hoy hoy to Terry,put me onto this site.

Awesome story.... thanks for bringing it to us Paul. I really liked the guides they have on the trailer.... that is a problem I am eternally suffering from :). If you're in contact with Clive, I would love to know what covering they used on that, so that the keel isn't scratched? Thanks heaps.

What a beautiful job they did on that boat. Absolutely gorgeous.

She’s lovely! So much work, I can really appreciate the effort they e gone to.😊

Again, highest quality video production! Mad respect!

Wow, what a fantastic restoration! Great video as always. Cheers

Hey Paul if you talk toClive ask him if he replaced the shourd deck ubolts they are prone to fail they might look good but they crack most investigator owners know about it best to replace them with the original ronstan ones for the price its peace of mind cheers steve

Hey Paul do you remember your investigator sail number your wife would have enjoyed the Matilda game cheers steve

Just dropped into your channel this morning and had to comment. You really demeaned this couples effort and excellence with your desire to scarper off and watch 22 semi skilled sportspeople play soccer, the hours of hard labour and skill to turn that 563 into a piece of beauty is tremendous and you just caught up in this hype and woke scenario left them high and dry.

In all of your videos I've watched so far, this is the first boat that has a proper head onboard, if you can call it that. I certainly haven't seen one on your boat, or any of the others you've shared. So if most weekender dinghies have no head, where do you go when you've got to do #2? What do you do when you need to use the loo?

I saw an Investigator a year or so back and tried to interest my wife and friends to collaborate on it. Needless to say I failed. However Clive and Jenny should be proud of their efforts. A really excellent project outcome. Go Matilda’s next Saturday. Btw will you have divided loyalties for the match?

how about vied see you in sleep mode to see how much room there is and comfability

its too small