by Goodwood » Wed May 21, 2014 11:08 pm
From the photos it still looks reasonably watertight. Can't rightly tell what kind of wood it was made from, if you want to get it back into good condition then I would unscrew whatever parts are removable, then strip each one with some good paint stripper safe for wood that won't tear it up. Give the wooden parts a good sanding, reseal them, then paint it up like a small inter-coastal patrol boat, maybe adding fins to the "torpedoes" or else chucking them (along with the "main guns" and two of the four "secondary turrets" as well).
It's really up to you what you want to do with it, these are just my own suggestions from glancing at a few photographs.
From the photos it still looks reasonably watertight. Can't rightly tell what kind of wood it was made from, if you want to get it back into good condition then I would unscrew whatever parts are removable, then strip each one with some good paint stripper safe for wood that won't tear it up. Give the wooden parts a good sanding, reseal them, then paint it up like a small inter-coastal patrol boat, maybe adding fins to the "torpedoes" or else chucking them (along with the "main guns" and two of the four "secondary turrets" as well).
It's really up to you what you want to do with it, these are just my own suggestions from glancing at a few photographs.