Yup, the 6 week thing makes it look Croatian. Thing is mike, with freti they'll give with one hand and take with the other. If you agree to this they will load on the cost of the smart arrangments they must have made to fast-track the boats onto the Croatian registry, just as (say) they charge €100k to code a boat and sell it to you VAT free under FCE. Ferretti's trading position is such that you can have a boat at helluva discount anyway if you buy for straight cash, but when you do these schemes with them they claw back the saving you ought to be getting by way of their own price uplifts. No worries though: good luck to them and the boats are very nice indeed of course
Shall we ask Daka to start a poll?
I would never buy a new Ferretti because when new they cost so much more than comparative UK makes, even with a big discount, but on the secondhand market that premium is much reduced so somewhere down the line an owner, usually the first one, takes an enormous depreciation hit. On the other hand a secondhand one makes an excellent used buy if the owner has got realistic about its value because the quality means that a 5 - 10yr old example can look almost as good as new. Yes good luck to them. I have bought both my used Ferrettis thru Ventura and they were excellent people to deal with
Yup i think that's generally true Mike. However, in recent times you'll find that has changed, at least in sectors/model lengths where they have a severe shortage of customers. Last summer in the month before I went firm on my current s78 order I was offered a brand new f800 for less money. About a hundred grand less, if I recall. In fact they had two: two were about to be finished, and had no buyers. Nice spec, incl gyro and h/top. I was very tempted becuase there is much to love about ferrettis and that particular model, but alas the things I hate about ferretti (helms, too-little range) I hate profoundly, so I declined. I agree too that Ventura London are a nice professional firm to deal with
Yup, as we've discussed before, Ferretti helms are a blind spot for the company although to be fair, the visibility from them is usually always good. Surprised to hear you say that range is an issue because normally, Ferrettis carry more fuel than comparable boats. Certainly my two Ferrettis have done. Also I guess you never would have got anywhere near the customisation out of them that you got from Fairline
I dunno where you get your data from but to serious customers Ferretti are offering 80 footers at amazing prices. Way way cheaper than the same sized Princess, say
Yup, their standard tanks are ok, and to be fair my long range requirement isn't met by Fairline standard spec either - it's only the customised addition of more tankage that does that. Ferretti will do basically zero customisation on an 80 which means you'd have to rebuild the whole helm (x2) yourself, which I could do for say £30k in UK but not down in the Med, and it would cost €100k to bring the thing to UK then take it back to the Med...
Actually, what jfm said is that he could have bought a F800 for 100k less than a Sq78.
Brilliant idea, if it weren't that nothing would stop some other Country to reduce the VAT to 4.9%, I guess...
