A new build project boat

[jamie langstone]

Just found this on ebay would it really be possible to complete the project as simple as they make it in the write up.
I bet it would cost a lot more in the end than budgeted for.http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PROJECT-BOAT-2015-Motor-Yacht-Project-Sunquest-40-/231751685175?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

 

[Baseplate]

Yep-nothing there that a couple of weekends and £80+k would'nt see right.

 

[P4Paul]

£65k for a 40 foot garden shed, seems a lot to me...

 

[petem]

£65k for a 40 foot garden shed, seems a lot to me...

Could be a viable project if you do all the work ourself and combine it with the right burned out donor boat.

 

[P4Paul]

Could be a viable project if you do all the work ourself and combine it with the right burned out donor boat.

I am sure some may have the skills required to finish the project; time, energy and an unrealistic budget always seems to be the main reason these things don't get completed. I also doubt that £200k is enough budget to do a high quality job and IMHO the end result will be worth far less than the sum of its parts.

And as for a burnt out donor, as I said on the other thread, they are carcenagenic time bombs and need careful management to ensure human and environmental protection. Stored, dismantled and disposed of responsibly would kick a substantial hole in the budget.

Mind you, if I am wrong then it wouldn't be the first time that I have had to eat my words...

 

[prv]

I am sure some may have the skills required to finish the project; time, energy and an unrealistic budget always seems to be the main reason these things don't get completed.

This seems to be something different to the usual burnt or sunk hull which "just needs a little DIY refurbishment". It sounds like the seller is expecting to do all or most of the work, in a professional yard, contracting separately with the buyer for each bit. Presumably it's an attempt to get round some kind of regulation, or minimise the builder's need for capital, or offload the risk.

Pete

 

[oldgit]

This hull has been around in various guises for sometime.The topsides alter according to the market.
Think there is a workboat/fishing boat version and a sport cruiser available,guessing that perhaps some smaller flybridge Humber boats and Suncruisers were based on this Bennet design.
Boat buyers are notoriously conservative and anything that does not have Priny-Fairline on the sticker is going to extremely difficult to move on later unless you practically give it away.
Doubt you would get back your costs on the hardware and you could forget the labour.
Coastal Rides have a couple of D6 or D9, around £45k + vat a pair,you will of course need gearboxes and all the stern gear.

 

[benjenbav]

I think that back in the 80s and early 90s quite a few of the smaller Aquastars were supplied as bare hulls for customer fit out.

 

[landlockedpirate]

Self builds were hugely popular in the 80's, Colvic (Sunquest) were even regulars at the Boatshow.

Im going to take an educated guess and say most of the hulls purchased back then are still sat in the owners back garden's where they were craned to 30+ years ago. Even if they do ever get finished, there will be the little question of the sapling thats now a 50ft tree in the way of the crane and the extension that stops the crane even getting close enough to make the lift.

My take on that hull, it will never get finished, but it will still absorb more cash than a good used Fairline 40 would ever cost.

 

[PCUK]

With careful budgeting and secondhand engines this could be done for about £80,000 and if the shell was less than £30,000 it would be a worthwhile project. At £65,000 it's far too expensive.

 

[Tranona]

This seems to be something different to the usual burnt or sunk hull which "just needs a little DIY refurbishment". It sounds like the seller is expecting to do all or most of the work, in a professional yard, contracting separately with the buyer for each bit. Presumably it's an attempt to get round some kind of regulation, or minimise the builder's need for capital, or offload the risk.

Pete

Looks like a re-incarnation of the old "complete to any stage" model of selling boats which was killed off by a combination of regulation, shrinkage in savings and projects never getting finished. As this is a commercial operation the boat even in its hull and deck form would need to have a cE mark as far as it went, but if the buyer completed it for his own use he could sell it after 5 years without any other certification. Nowever if hee sold within that time it would have to comply with the RCD as a complete boat.

 

[oldgit]

My boat is a classic example,original builder bought hull and topsides from Aquafibre in 1974 and then set about building the boat in his back garden.Three gardens later the boat was finally launched in 2005 after several setbacks involving health and finances.
His son completed the build after 30 years, all the invoices lovingly kept,indicated it cost around about three times the original "ready to go" price,not including labour.

 

[aquapower]

My boat is a classic example,original builder bought hull and topsides from Aquafibre in 1974 and then set about building the boat in his back garden.Three gardens later the boat was finally launched in 2005 after several setbacks involving health and finances.
His son completed the build after 30 years, all the invoices lovingly kept,indicated it cost around about three times the original "ready to go" price,not including labour.

I met the son who completed your boat after he sold it and bought the next one, an interesting guy who told me all about the build and the pleasure it gave, I now see his current boat for sale so not sure what next.

 

[oldgit]

Was in contact with him until a little while ago,gave him an email update every now and then.
Hopefully his dad is still around and aware that the boat took us over for the Dunkerque celebrations last year.

One even made it to Australia,although its know as "37" over there.