A big Grand Banks for not too much

As in winks come and pour a load of money into me. With only 1000hrs in 46yrs its got to have been used mainly as a liveaboard as the pics seem to suggest (what kind of boat regularly used for cruising has a metal fish on its dining table!) so if you want to turn it into a cruising boat probably reckon on 2 engine rebuilds plus whatever horrors the wooden hull throws up and probably a load of other stuff too including an interior refit. I reckon you could easily chuck €100-200k at the boat and then it becomes an expensive 46yr old boat. Only for somebody hellbent on buying a GB IMHO
 
Mike, you are always the practical one.

I’m having a bored period and doing lots of internet surfing. Normal service will be resumed soon!
 
MapisM said:
As if she weren't an expensive 46yo boat already at the asking price… :ambivalence:
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Yup lot of money but then for reasons I have never understood old GBs seem to sell at a premium
 
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Yup lot of money but then for reasons I have never understood old GBs seem to sell at a premium
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The GB36 Europa seems to the one that keeps its value the best; they stopped making them in the early nougties. The Most insightful comment I saw on the GB forum; it's a wooden boat in a grp hull.

Acres of teak, wooden decks and timber framed superstructure...but it's a true gentleman's motor yacht.
 
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I knew the boat from around 2001 for about eight years. Was owned by the then current President of the Amicale Grand Banks Méditerranée cruising club that we joined in 2001. It was their Cannes home. Certainly was well used & looked after until they sold around 2008.

I remember cruises in company to Corsica & Barcelona with 22 GBs, great fun & a great lead ship. Always remember them coming out of Cannes at 0300 with tannoy blasting away to collect us all from the islands anchorage for our trip to Corsica.


The 50 is a nice boat but as with all old wooden boats you have to keep up with the work. If it's not been loved as it was back then I agree you need a lot of time. There's a lot of bulwark to look after thats for sure.


I was always intrigued by the split engine room, clever solution to aft cabin access.


Price seems ambitious, I'm sure she was 100k some years ago, been for sale a few times. Name is unchanged.
 
Forty_Two said:
Great memories, drinks on the fly etc. My avatar was from a cruise from Cannes where we formed up in rows as if a convoy & the St Trop helo took pics of each of us. I have a very large print in my study, no drones then...
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How about posting a pic of the whole convoy?
 
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How about posting a pic of the whole convoy?
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Here you go, 28 GB's leaving Cannes for a barbeque at Frejus June 2001. Fantasia is front & center, we are third in line in the starboard column.

Hilarious day for us & a great introduction to SoF as we only unloaded from the freighter at Toulon in April that year.

Paul

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v.impressive indeed!

however it's so tempting to photoshop #3,5,7 on the port column and move them to port so that they line with the others :p

V.
 
vas said:
v.impressive indeed!

however it's so tempting to photoshop #3,5,7 on the port column and move them to port so that they line with the others :p

V.
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There are times when your obsessive compulsive attention to detail are not welcomed :p ;)
 
Wow that is indeed impressive! Is the club still as active today?
 
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Wow that is indeed impressive! Is the club still as active today?
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Yes it is, this year the get together was in Loano, Italy. Mostly it's French ports with Corsica a favourite. Number of boats seems to vary around the twenty or so in the last few years. We all fly the flag in the picture at the bow.

We remain members but havn't been for a few years now. I don't have the list to hand but I think there are around 40'ish members from France, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany & a couple of us Brits. Got a row of Plaques on the boat for each one attended.

The Barcelona trip was over 12 days with 8 stops & many Dinners & Coctail parties. They always get amazing deals on the ports, sometimes free & arrange an assortment of trips out during the five days of the meet. Usually to a restaurant in the middle of nowhere:encouragement:

On the Corsica trip they had a coach to the top of somewhere very high & I have never been more scared in my life, I really thought that was it when we edged right to the edge of a sheer drop to let another coach pass:ambivalence::ambivalence:

One really interesting trip was inside the Monaco Digue before it opened, quite impressive. I remember passing inshore of it before it was towed to the port.
 
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