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Don't be put off by the age of a Tinker - if looked after they can last forever!

Tinkers are no longer being manufactured, so a good place to get one is here!

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For Sale
Tinker Traveller
£450
Bristol
(ad placed 19/05/2013)
Tinker Traveller, 1990, with full sailing gear.  Dry stored inflated, in good condition.

3 section mast, dagger board, rudder and oars in excellent condition.  Jib and main new cordage.  Original paperwork.

Price £450.

email Steve Evans
Mob: 07747 714856
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For Sale
Tinker Super Tramp
£950
Andover, Hampshire.
(ad placed 19/05/2013)
Tinker Super Tramp, red, 1998, sail no. 6041.  Excellent condition, very lightly used.  Stored in my garage.

Comes complete with main, furling masthead jib, small jib, 3 part mast, rigging, dagger board, rudder with tiller extension, bow stretcher, 2 storage bags.

Hopefully she will find a new owner who will get many years of enjoyment from sailing her.

Price £950.

These photographs were taken on Sunday May 12th - the items around the boat are not included.
email Lindesay Rudd-Clarke
Tel: 01264 861410
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For Sale
Tinker Tramp
£95
Truro, Cornwall.
(ad placed 12/05/2013)
Tinker Tramp purchased by me in 1995.  Needs attention as leak in outer port side.

Sold 'as seen'.

Price £95.  Buyer collects.

email Jimmy Jackson
Tel: 01872 241615
Mob: 07712 674463
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For Sale
Tinker Star Traveller
£800
Kirkcudbright, South West Scotland.
(ad placed 06/05/2013)
Tinker Star Traveller, year 1988, sail number 1653.  A well-used but well looked after example of this much sought-after inflatable sailing dinghy.

12' inflatable dinghy with folding wooden floor, fitted wooden thwart (with custom-made stainless steel reinforcement) and dagger board case.  Tinkers are recognised as a class by the RYA.  Can be sailed, rowed or take up to a 5hp outboard.  Wooden floor folds up when dinghy is deflated so that it will fit in a good-sized car boot or on a roofrack.  Henshaw Inflatables' Tinker range has an excellent reputation for quality materials and build.

Comes with the high performance rig, liferaft canopy, gas cylinders and drogue.  Equipment to make the dinghy a liferaft.  The liferaft equipment has never been used.

Also comes with:
  • Boat bag - a robust bag/cover for the deflated dinghy
  • Bulkhead to support mast
  • Mast (4 sections) (the track needs a small pop rivet)
  • Boom
  • Bow stiffener
  • Bow canopy stretcher
  • Tiller/ rudder unit with new hardwood rudder and tiller
  • Dagger board
  • Mainsail, masthead jib and smaller jib
  • Shrouds, main halyard (new), foresail halyard (new)
  • Main sheet tackle, jib sheets, kicking strap, foresail tack downhaul
  • Wooden oars with captive rowlocks
  • Foot pump - high capacity
  • Dismantleable launching trolley
  • Sailing kit holdall (spars and sails bag)
  • Liferaft canopy - slight soiling from storage but otherwise as new
  • Drogue sea anchor - as new
  • 2 gas cylinders - full - though these should be checked and probably refilled before use - the labels have faded almost completely but the valves appear in good order.
Some scratches and scuffs to the wooden panels and stains to the fabric but everything in working order and sails as well as when new.

Small patch on port tube.

Port tube needs valve cap replaced to make airtight (slow leak).

Price £800.  Buyer collects.

email Glen Murray
Mob: 07974 319645
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For Sale
Tinker Tramp
£800
near Wadebridge, North Cornwall.
(ad placed 28/04/2013)
Tinker Tramp, sail number 6941, built in 1999/2000.  Very good condition.  Garage stored and recently inflated - holds pressure well.  The mast and sail have hardly been used and are in excellent condition.  Unlike others seen it has no jib only a main.  The rudder and daggerboard are in excellent condition.

Price £800.

email Jinx Hewitt
Mob: 07889 725832
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For Sale
Tinker Star Traveller
£480
near Chelmsford, Essex.
(ad placed 28/04/2013)
Tinker Star Traveller, sail no. 949.  This inflatable sailing boat is in good condition for its age (probably built early 1980s), has had little use and the colourful sails are in excellent almost 'as new' condition.
  • 3 section mast
  • Performance sailing rig (bulkhead model)
  • All the necessary sailing equipment is included.
The boat's colour is a little faded and there is one secure airtight repair patch so the price is set to allow for this.

The hull was inflated recently with the included foot pump and it remained fully inflated.  It has been stored in dry, suitable conditions.

The electric outboard motor and its battery (in the photos) are not included with the boat because we use them with another boat.

Please contact by email to request a viewing appointment.

Price £480.

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For Sale
Tinker Traveller
£450 o.n.o.
Outboard £150 o.n.o.
Electric Outboard £150 o.n.o.
Glasgow
(ad placed 28/04/20149999)
Tinker Traveller, sail no. 203.  Sailing gear with mast extension & window sail.  Oars, centreboard, tiller, rudder, & trolley.

Buyer to collect.
  • Tinker Traveller - price £450 o.n.o.
  • Yamaha 2HP petrol engine - price £150 o.n.o.
  • Yamaha M80 electric engine - price £150 o.n.o.
email Norman Todd
Tel: 01416 375003

For Sale
Tinker Bits & Bobs
£Bottle of wine or equivalent.
South Fremantle,
Western Australia.
(ad placed 21/04/2013
I thought your members might be interested to hear and see what happened to my Tinker Tramp TR 5973 when she was dramatically overinflated - see here for the details.

Following the demise of my Tinker I now have available the liferaft canopy, drogue, CO2 cylinders and I cut the valves out in case they are useful.  All going for the price of a good bottle of wine or equivalent.  There is however one slight snag - I live in Western Australia, so the lucky recipient will have to either organise their own freight or pop over one weekend to pick them up (?!).

Price £Bottle of wine or equivalent.

email Kim Klaka

For Sale
Tinker Traveller
£550 o.n.o.
Wheathampstead, Herts.
(ad placed 07/04/2013)
Tinker Traveller, sail no. 2347, year 1991.
  • Window mainsail and Jib (mainsail rope and mast track)
  • Useful 6" mast extension
  • Oars and rowlocks
  • Centre board and tiller/rudder
  • Foot pump
  • Boat bag
  • CO2 valves fitted
One owner used for holidays in the first 10 years then in storage and brought out for regular maintenance.

Unfortunately one of the inner inflatable tubes loses air, possible faulty valve however at the worst case "Rib and Dinghy Repairs" of Brockenhurst Hampshire will repair at a maximum of £180 inc VAT if the tube requires replacing.  scott@ribrepair.com.  Can be used in safe waters with outer tube inflated only.

Marketplace note: if an inner tube valve is leaking IBS - Inflatable & GRP boat supplies is a good place for sourcing replacement valves and spares.

Additional items FOC if wanted:
  • Anchor
  • Bailer
  • Crewfit CO2 inflatable lifejacket (not recently tested) holds air
  • Fuel Tank for outboard motor
Price £550 o.n.o.

email Terry Shotter
Mob: 07763 933274
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For Sale
Tinker Star Traveller
£800
Penrith, Cumbria.
(ad placed 02/04/2013)
Tinker Star Traveller, sail number 770, bulkhead model, well cared for and in good condition.  Comes complete with all sailing equipment.

Buyer collects.

Price £800.

email Lindsay Scott
Tel: 01768 866817
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For Sale
Tinker Star Traveller
£1450
Dorking, Surrey,
(ad placed 02/04/2013)
Tinker Star Traveller, red, manufactured in 1998, sail number 6066, serial no. GBJMH06066F797.

In very good condition, stored in a garage, and used only for Tinker rallies.  Includes sailing kit, three section mast, sails (mainsail, small jib, masthead furling jib), oars and performance sailing kit.  All standing and running rig, stowaway launcher wheels, anchor, flare kit, boat bag, mast bag and sailing kit holdall.

Price £1450.

email Richard Waldron
Tel: 01306 882895
Mob: 07710 392758
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For Sale
Tinker Tramp
£950
Greece and the Mediterranean
(ad placed 02/04/2013)
Tinker Tramp, sail no. 2568.  Excellent condition, no repairs.

Comes with a cover / bag for the dinghy and a bag for the kit which includes full sailing rig (mainsail and jib), mast, boom, daggerboard, rudder, rowlocks and wooden oars.

Great fun to sail, can take two adults.

The Tinker is currently on our yacht in Messolonghi, Greece.  We will be sailing through the Ionians in the Spring and then heading towards Gibraltar this summer.

Collection only.

Price £950.

email Roy Hibberd
Tel: 0044 (0) 7887 537520
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For Sale
Tinker Folday RIB
£950
Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
(ad placed 18/02/2013)
Tinker Foldaway RIB, sail no 6513, year of manufacture 1998.

The boat is in excellent condition with no holes or repairs in the hull.  She comes with main and jib which have been used only two or three times and are in pristine condition.  She also has the standard wooden rudder and centreboard, rowlocks, two piece wooden oars and all the rig (mast, boom, synthetic stays etc).  She comes with launching trolley (demountable alloy type).

Price £950.  Buyer collects (or I can deliver by arrangement).

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For Sale
Tinker Foldaway RIB
£950
Isle of Wight
(ad placed 13/01/2013)
Tinker Foldaway RIB made by Henshaw Inflatables.  Serial Number GBJMH06629B999, sail number 6629, year of manufacture 1999.

Excellent condition.

Comes with 3 part mast, boom, daggerboard, rudder, oars, pump, owner's handbook, and portage bags.  The sails (main and jib) are as new, they have only been used once or twice.

Price £950.

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For Sale
Tinker Traveller
£200
Bridgend, S. Wales.
(ad placed 06/01/2013)
An early boat but, in return for a little TLC, plenty of life left in this tinker.

Bought as a project for a cunning plan involving a Hobie Mirage Drive, which never got off the drawing board due to the price of the mirage drives!  Sad to see it sitting unused, so here it is for sale.

Ideal as a cheap & generously sized tender. It has the slot in the floor board (blanked over) but no daggerboard sleeve and has the narrow thwart - so would be a bit of a project it you wanted to add the sailing kit.

The Hypalon material is in good condition.

Floorboards are painted and sound but might benefit from repainting.

The forward port valve needs replacing.

The port side inner tube has perished. I've spoken to 'Rib & Dinghy Repair' who said that as long as you don't intend to use it as a liferaft it is not necessary to replace it, but they can do so if required.

No oars, pump or rowlocks included.

Price £200.

(Depending on timing could possibly get it to Pembrokeshire, Bristol or perhaps Poole/Christchurch).

email Dai Morgan
Tel: 01656 860235
Mob: 07779 254473
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For Sale
Tinker Foldaway RIB
£1050
Dersingham, King's Lynn.
(ad placed 18/12/2012)
Tinker Foldaway RIB, sail number 6518, year of manufacture 1998.

Comes with 3 part mast, boom, daggerboard, rudder, oars, pump, owner's handbook, and portage bags.  The sails are as new as they have only been used once or twice.

Price £1050 o.n.o.

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For Sale
Tinker Traveller
£600 o.n.o.
Bristol
(ad placed 23/10/2012)
Tinker Traveller, sail number 266.  With sails and rigging.  No leaks - stays fully inflated.  Garage stored.  (Trailer not included).

Price £600 o.n.o.

email Andy
Mob: 07733 318001
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For Sale
Tinker Tramp
Canopy and Drogue £60
Emsworth,Hants.
(ad placed 18/10/2012)
Inflatable liferaft canopy and sea anchor/drogue for Tinker Tramp, both in new/unused condition.  Offers around £60.

Can be seen or collected from Emsworth or can be delivered within reasonable distance.

email Adrian Locke
Tel: 01243 379479
Mob: 07788 824436