SILVER LASS - A slice of yachting history for sale! 

You said it better than I could have. All that money spent on the teak and updates and they should have put in stabilizers. It's a shame.

It has stabilizers, but those aren't useful as zero-speed stabilizers (which aren't useful while moving). For zero-speed stabilizers to be added, they'd have to make some big holes in the ship somewhere. For only $1.2 mil for the boat, I'm sure you could add them yourself.

You'll get sick of that fast.

@@Jim.Thunda no I wouldn't I got used to it when I was in the USCG and falling asleep was easier than it is now the only time I didn't like it was when the seas were rough and you had to hang on she was commissioned in I think was 1917 she was the USCGC INGHAM and she's outside of Charleston SC at the maritime museum

I'm an old trucker, & some of the best sleep I've ever gotten was in my 92 Pete 379 with a Cat 3406. Back then we'd idle our trucks. Having that CAT purring with the AC maxed out in the sleeper, just heavenly sleep each & every time. I'm sure this ole girl would do the same.

Look at blue bird and Baruna.

See my post above, I grew up with boats on the West Coast of Scotland. Back then there was still a large herring fleet using 50ish foot canoe stern wooden boats. They would not have considered anything other than Gardners. They were very much the engine of choice.

There are two types of stabilizers that I'm familiar with, those used while in motion and those for when you're at zero speed. This boat clearly has the former.

​@@grondhero There are now rotor stabilisers that fit like fins but work in both scenarios .. they can also folded against the hull to avoid snagging and reduce the width of the vessel when alongside or passing through a lock or into a narrow birth. There's a whole series of vintage wooden boats festivals but the Canadian NW round BC is a particularly rich ground for historic vessels and restorations.

@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 Thanks for the information. It's safe to say this boat doesn't have those. 😉

I was feeling queasy just watching it from my sofa!

She’d be fine cruising the west coast and the Hebrides. With careful handling she’d ride out most summer weather, and she’d never be much more than an hour or two from protected water, on that coast. With modern weather forecasting, the chance of being caught out is greatly diminished. Would I cross an ocean in her (assuming she had the range)? With adequate deadlights to cover her deckhouse windows, I think I would. All her deck openings are small and secure. She is famously well constructed; Silvers are the Rolls-Royce of British motor yachts. I might want to have some stability testing done before setting off just to be sure she hasn’t gained too much top hamper over the years. A simple metacentric height determination compared to her designed metacentric height will probably be sufficient.

stabilizers are only active when she's under power i'd bet. stabs are an extreme retrofit on a wooden classic to begin with, let alone finding space to fit a battery bank big enough to run a zero speed setup.

As soon as I scrounge up that last million... :)

Round bottomed displacement hulls of this era were designed with high LOA / BMAX ratios (i.e. narrow) for efficiency, but this does result in reduced stability (i.e. lots of roll). Silver Lass has a ratio in excess of 4.5 to 1 - modern hulls are typically in the 3 to 3.5 range, and most boats of this size one sees on channels like this are planing boats, whose hulls are much wider, flatter and continue their beam all the way aft, all contributing to less roll, whereas gentleman's yachts like Silver Lass taper at both ends, again, for efficiency at displacement speeds. TLDR: Old boats roll like a b*st*rd.

@@RandomGuyRandomNumber How uncomfortable is motion?

@@clarksonad The most relevant factor in comfort is probably the Roll Period - how long it takes to complete a whole oscillation from side to side. Anything faster than a couple of seconds is usually too snappy for comfort. Round bilges are slower than v-hulls with hard chines, but the angles of lean reached are larger - pay your money and take your choice. Another factor is Heave, or how fast the boat moves up and down, and that depends on Displacement and Waterplane Area. However, Ted Brewer formulated his "Comfort Ratio" as a slightly tongue in cheek formula based on LWL, LOA, BMax and Displacement that is easier to calculate from published design data. TLDR: It's complicated.

I think he said thirteen feet

That's because her beam is 13' 6" (4.1m).

I went back and see what you did. 😆 Should have done a 3:00 time stamp.

Then stay on land, easy as that

@@stefanvanrensburg6096 I've spent a lifetime afloat in all sorts of weather and there's a difference between a good riding boat and one that's not. Why stay ashore when there are good riding vessels, but hey, you do you.