TheCoach
Active member
Following on from our earlier thread about owning an older style trawler yacht we have decided we need something that can cover the ground just a little bit quicker so our search has moved on.
Our "use case" will be day trips and longer cruises either exploring the South coast England or West coast Scotland. We will mainly be a two person crew but frequently I will be single crewing if I go out for a days fishing or similar. We will want the ability to stay on board overnight comfortably and cook onboard etc.
We "think" our basic requirements in our next boat are:
- walk around decks
- side access from the helm to deckside (to aid single crewing)
- somewhere between 30' - 40'
- ability to cruise at ~ 13kn or more
- Mrs TC really likes at cabins
- Seadog Charlie really likes high bulwarks/rails to stop him jumping OB
Budget is upto £100k
Have started looking at things like Corvette, Hardy 36 (struggle within budget), Aquastar in the older age bracket to get under budget but also looked at stuff like Quicksilver Active 905 weekender in newer stuff. Big trade off between price vs age vs seakeeping ability perhaps?
Also love the Targa's and Sargo's but way over budget unfortunately
So, any advise, suggestion, recommendations, merits/demerits of the above, additions etc. I have experience with Rib's and have PB2 and Day Skipper so know roughly which way is North but this is our first venture into a hard boat so any advice is welcome.
We plan to research over the next few months, possibly with the idea of getting something on the water late this year, or if its an older boat on the hard so we can do any work needed for a launch next spring but, as this year has shown, no plan survives first contact with the (virus) enemy so timings are "flexible"
If its useful/entertaining? I hope to keep the thread updated as a kind of travelogue of our boat buying journey - so here starts the voyage?
Cheers,
TheCoach
Our "use case" will be day trips and longer cruises either exploring the South coast England or West coast Scotland. We will mainly be a two person crew but frequently I will be single crewing if I go out for a days fishing or similar. We will want the ability to stay on board overnight comfortably and cook onboard etc.
We "think" our basic requirements in our next boat are:
- walk around decks
- side access from the helm to deckside (to aid single crewing)
- somewhere between 30' - 40'
- ability to cruise at ~ 13kn or more
- Mrs TC really likes at cabins
- Seadog Charlie really likes high bulwarks/rails to stop him jumping OB
Budget is upto £100k
Have started looking at things like Corvette, Hardy 36 (struggle within budget), Aquastar in the older age bracket to get under budget but also looked at stuff like Quicksilver Active 905 weekender in newer stuff. Big trade off between price vs age vs seakeeping ability perhaps?
Also love the Targa's and Sargo's but way over budget unfortunately
So, any advise, suggestion, recommendations, merits/demerits of the above, additions etc. I have experience with Rib's and have PB2 and Day Skipper so know roughly which way is North but this is our first venture into a hard boat so any advice is welcome.
We plan to research over the next few months, possibly with the idea of getting something on the water late this year, or if its an older boat on the hard so we can do any work needed for a launch next spring but, as this year has shown, no plan survives first contact with the (virus) enemy so timings are "flexible"
If its useful/entertaining? I hope to keep the thread updated as a kind of travelogue of our boat buying journey - so here starts the voyage?
Cheers,
TheCoach