£499K STEEL Liveaboard Converted SELBY BARGE For Sale!

This converted steel Selby Barge is currently listed for sale! If you would like to find out more about this boat, then check out my new 'micro website'! Everything mentioned in this video can be found right there! (Link below)
👉👉 linktr.ee/john_johnson
If you would like to see the video that I made about the other barge that I recently visited, then here is that video:
• €595k STEEL Liveaboard...

[@YachtBuoy]

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[@TristanMorrow]

£75k rusty old steel barge + £10k of cabinets, carpets, AV and paint = 450% profit!!!???

[@timothyfoster7564]

CAPTAIN TIM HERE, I THINK THE INLAND WATER WAYS WOULD BE HOME FOR THIS MAN CAVE. ALSO I WOULD PUT IN SOLAR PANELS ,GO ELECTRIC AND A RADAR. CLEAN UP THE ENGINE ROOM PUT THE BATTERY AND INVERTER IN .

[@charlesmoore9547]

You're right. If you're building a custom live abord there are so many innovations with wind and solar that can save you money and perhaps save you if the engine leaves you stranded.

[@dougmorley2850]

Way too high of a price for what you get plus what it needs !

[@harryporthouse1731]

John, thank you for reviewing such a unique vessel. I think the sundeck is the best feature. Just shows what can be done to preserve and repurpose our marine heritage. Great job!

[@martinhornby6189]

I was involved in the barge industry in the Humber and connected waterways. Selby Doris and her sister ships were owned by BOCM, they carried oil seeds and nuts for making cattle feed and edible oils which caused no damage to the hulls so very little rusting. They were also built to a good standard mainly by Dunstan's of Thorne. She would be unsuitable for UK waterways with that air draft. Pity she does not have the original Gardner engine.

[@cullendarling7916]

Awesome!!!! Thank you for showing this one!

[@user-lk6jj8xx9u]

This is awesome 😎😎

[@c.curmudgeon2834]

That's one of the most masculine boats you've ever shown on your channel, looks awesome.

[@grancitodos7318]

Crazy, it holds only slightly more diesel than my suburban.

[@dannyduncan3181]

Beautiful job on that boat. After seeing the awesome job overall the engine room was a big let down. Hopefully it will be done to match the rest.

[@stugurr09]

Brilliant vid, thats a cracking boat. keep up the great content.

[@YachtBuoy]

Thanks! I appreciate it 🫡

[@Qossuth]

Half a million? No thank you :)

[@paton57]

Instantly started designing a whaleback bow and bulb extention

[@grancitodos7318]

Why, with only 200 Lt of diesel, it will barely get up to full speed.

[@witchmellor]

Wow what a great floating man cave that is! sort that engine room out and it would be great to get it up on the Broads or chug along the inland waterways. Great stuff as usual shipmate. Cheers ⚓

[@YachtBuoy]

Thanks for watching 🫡 Perhaps we could all chip in an turn it into a ‘Yacht Buoy Cave’ (or cove 😅)

[@wickedcabinboy]

@witchmellor - Floating man cave; that's exactly what I was thinking. There's not a female touch in sight. It undoubtedly has lots of potential. Right now, it's a blank slate.

[@witchmellor]

@@wickedcabinboy Deffo shippers, get a pool table in there for the evenings alongside, ship rolled rules apply. Plenty of room for a beer and cider cellar with chillers and need to set up a fishing area up top somewhere, ditch the spa bath and the gas heating and just use solar and wind generator with batteries plus the woodburner stove. Sorted

[@platostien189]

Did I miss him showing the helm or was the docking controls all there is?

[@dylanlongcore8923]

Great footage of the Barge. You could have a nice long weekend with a few people on the water!

[@TentFever]

You might be able to alleviate the light flicker with F-stop or shutter speed.

[@charlesmoore9547]

Tons of space for solar panels and batteries. I would replace the engine with a smaller new turbo charged engine and equip it with a couple of wing sails or at least a kite sail system to save you plenty on fuel.

[@rafaelortiz544]

Wow these barges are awesome, I wonder if these can make their way to Southern California, USA ?

[@YachtBuoy]

Sure! On the right ship they can 🫡

[@JamesMacleanEsq]

Great boat with so much space. Not crazy about the interior design and styling - a bit on the bland side. Also, I'm not sure why they didn't put skylights above the bedrooms, because it feels a little claustrophobic down there. But that could all be changed - although at 500k I wouldn't be inclined to spend any more on it.

[@MrSpleenboy]

What beer would I bring? Something Belgian, Pirat would seem appropriate... Yarr! If it were me, I'd put solar panels the length of that coach roof, ditch the gas and go all electric, would maybe need to sacrifice one of the bedrooms for battery and inverter space, unless there's space below the lower deck?

[@YachtBuoy]

Pirat sounds good 🍻 order me one please 🫡

[@wickedcabinboy]

@MrSpleenboy - I totally agree. The barge is so big that the interior space hasn't been used very efficiently.

[@redwolfexr]

I don't think it could go all electric - but you could CERTAINLY do everything other than the propulsion. As soon as I saw the gas hob I knew it was going to be underpowered and either need shore power or generators running. Needs 24 hours worth of "hotel battery," good solid solar panels, and all electric except the engine. (not going upstream on electric power in a heavy displacement vessel) Add a generator to charge the batteries if you have bad sun or a heavier than normal load.

[@pageant1fd]

A wide beam canal boat for half the price would be a far better buy. Old Tom beer for me please ! Thanks for sharing.

[@YachtBuoy]

Thanks for watching 🫡

[@DerMarcus_27.Juni.]

Aside from the price, I like it a lot.

[@viviennecroxford5377]

Lounge fire seems very close to the settee! Where is the steering apparatus?

[@ColdSpearo]

Council estate vibes with a country manor price tag.

[@MrFangsea]

Not the best barge and the state of the eninge room worries me that hull going forward just had some nice walls placed down and care wasn't taken to remove any rust and treat the metal correctly.

[@Joe_1sr9]

Looks pretty solid but the interior is so unfinished it needs £100k spent to make it good. I big project🎉😮

[@redwolfexr]

noticed some of the tables are freestanding too...

[@YottaVolt]

Guinness is the nectar of the gods.

[@YachtBuoy]

🫡

[@philjamieross107]

were the river , ?

[@robertmosher7418]

They made three storage rooms and called them bedrooms. They would have been better making the closest one to the owners cabin into a laundry room then the other two a larger cabin and attached the other head to it. Who needs a huge video room that large? Push the owners forward and create another cabin shorten the media room by 1/3 and build your shop and laundry room between that room and the engine room. Put a water tight door into the engine room. Do away with the overhead hatch. Replace the engine with a large CAT or MAN that will give you 15 knots with no need to reduce less than 90% rpm. Install a waste treatment plant and a desalination water maker and put the clean water storage and water maker at a small room at the bow behind a water tight door that you enter from the owners cabin. Build fuel tanks on the sides of the engine room and increase the fuel tanks. Also, install a system of stabilization of some sort. Turn the current helm station into a circular stairs and build a proper modern, steer and throttle by wire system on 1/2 of the current upper deck, and use a proper destroyer wheel. There is plenty of room if you encrease space by widening the deck to provide overhang shelter on both sides and lengthen it to cover the entire back cockpit area which would give you another ten or more feet towards the stern. Install a davet or crane system and make the upper deck a boat deck and put a 25ft Safeboat along with some water craft. Install radar, sonar, lights, satellite TV airials and uhf radio antenna. Build a cage system for your heating gas tanks stern of the new helm and get them off your bottom deck as they are not just an eyesore, they are a hazard to free movement on your decks...better yet, do away with the entire system buy installing electric heating and air throughout and install a diseal generator and solar panels on top of the new helm station. Everything should run off the battery bank/solar or the generator and be electric. Hook up to shore power/water when at the dock. She is an old barge, she should have a significantly thick bottom as we saw she is allowed to sit on her keel when the tide goes out. She sits low enough in the water with whatever they are using as ballast so she can handle the weight of building the upper decks. This barge was ill thought out and could be so much more than the renovations they made. Way too much under used and wasted space. Yes, the cost of my suggestions would be more than they paid, but, they did nothing but turn it into a house on the water with an owners cabin and three closets that you can put little more than a single birth into. There is room for nothing else. The current most forward room is far better than the guest accommodations.

[@larslange5482]

Hi mate, big ? can you sail this barge on the high seas.

[@felixniederhauser7799]

I will bring pure apple cider. Cheers

[@YachtBuoy]

🍻

[@justinbrooks250]

I wish I could buy it

[@jamesmyatt354]

👍❤️

[@clifbradley]

Is that what I think that is in the drain by the sink? That looks like a...well I can't say it here. Lol.

[@williamlondon6269]

The lack of any emergency egress from below is disturbing to me.

[@redwolfexr]

There was a hatch forward.

[@peglegjim57]

Those massive wing nuts on the portholes are obscenely dangerous. Otherwise, nice boat.

[@johnthomas8731]

the engine room should be at least as tidy as the kitchen.

[@shnboardman1]

Nice barge but to be honest they do not look like double cabins

[@The442nd]

Can I assume that this is not capable of crossing oceans?

[@richardprokopczyk9255]

why is it sitting in mud

[@YachtBuoy]

The tide was out 🌊🌊

[@fjcruiser289]

Lots of leaks I see....the stain on the paint water damage

[@tonygriffiths7864]

1/2 MILL damn no thanks,,,, that engine room looks like something from fallout 4, for me if the engine room looks good, its a fact that the previous owners took pride in their boat

[@two20john]

I think this will be on the market for many years, way too expensive.

[@brian.7966]

buy it then its spend spend spend,

[@Katiekatie948]

Huh? Half a million? Not

[@rachelbolyard1527]

Looks like $150k, not $500k to me…

[@ironichumorist]

the conversion is well executed but not so cleverly designed. the work area in the bow. the gas bottles randomly stuck on the deck. the cinema room. not really a lot of creative thought given the available space.

[@Konstantin_P.]

Тихий ужас...

[@malcolmadams1051]

In what world do the owners live in? Can see defects in the painting and metal plates bolts not fitted correctly. But extremely over priced.

[@redwolfexr]

Wanted to like it more, definitely overpriced as it is.

[@Sam_Green____4114]

I take assume it can sail to where it's wanted because the view is pretty shi*t !!!

[@ricardoallende2597]

Overpriced. Terrible engine room.

[@DrJayLLB]

way overpriced and it really isn't anything special from what I saw from the workmanship it looks like the owner refitted it themselves without knowing what they were doing

[@hervecote7355]

IS it for sale

[@MacAJ1874]

awful looking thing… bar the beautifully appointed carpet on the helm…