Hampton came back from London to Cowroast in 2004.  From the outside, the boat looked fine (apart from the wide top plank).  However, it soon became apparent that both the back cabin and the wooden main cabin were leaking badly.  The fore cabin was particularly bad - wet rot was beginning to take hold.

The time had come to have a watertight steel main cabin and fore cabin.  We reckoned that with continuous attention and maintenance it might be possible to preserve the wooden back cabin. With hindsight, this was the wrong decision

The two pictures above show Hampton waiting to have extensive work done by Warwickshire FlyboatCo. at Stockton in October 2005. 

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