Advice for a (almost complete) novice

[dylanwinter]

under £5,000

Excellent advice there. You can easily get set up for under £5000 with a small yacht and mooring. Buying a dinghy, joining a sailing club, getting all the right clothing you won't be far off £5000-for what? Sailing round a little triangle on a fish pond?

Last year was my first year owning a yacht, before that I raced dinghies traveling as far as lake Garda for championships. Every weekend I was away driving 500 miles or more. Unless you are passionate about dinghy racing you'll soon get bored of 3 laps round the same triangle.

I have learnt so much more about sailing owning a little day yacht then I would ever have dinghy racing.

£1500 will do it easily provided you do not place to high a value on your own dignity or speed through the water

start with ebay, boats and outboards, loads of little cheap boats in maldon for starters

loads of challenging places to sail from the blackwater

buy an old westerly Nimrod

it is a dinghy you can sleep on

D

Dylan

 

[onesea]

£1500 will do it easily provided you do not place to high a value on your own dignity or speed through the water

start with ebay, boats and outboards, loads of little cheap boats in maldon for starters

loads of challenging places to sail from the blackwater

buy an old westerly Nimrod

it is a dinghy you can sleep on

D

Dylan

Dylan I disagree entirely you do not need to loose your dignity for £1500 can set you up with a nice little boat.

Its a buyers market so if you like it put a cheeky offer in, it does no harm you would be surprised you might get lucky...

I have put forward 1/3rd the asking price, the brokers view was well no one has put offer in its worth a try!

What about a Trident 24? Although I can confess I have a vested interest, mine might soon be on the market in that region, to the right home ...

 

[dylanwinter]

the costs of big and old

Dylan I disagree entirely you do not need to loose your dignity for £1500 can set you up with a nice little boat.

Its a buyers market so if you like it put a cheeky offer in, it does no harm you would be surprised you might get lucky...

I have put forward 1/3rd the asking price, the brokers view was well no one has put offer in its worth a try!

What about a Trident 24? Although I can confess I have a vested interest, mine might soon be on the market in that region, to the right home ...

the problem is that big and old costs more to run than small and old

so £1500 on a trident would be the beginning of the bills

with a smaller boat £1500 would get you up and running without any future big bills

 

[Applescruffs]

You don't have to spend a fourtune!

nice little Express Pirate for sale on the Blackwater, ( I used to own it!)_ well sub £ 1k.....with dinghy and outboard,,,, mooring and club membership available...,pm me for more details

 

[Stu Jackson]

"the best days of owning a yacht are the day you bought it and the day you have sold it!"

I've seen this so many times that I find it easy to finally say: "Enough already!"

I would find it incredibly hard to even contemplate selling my boat, and I know, for sure, that I wouldn't be happy selling my current boat, except for those two times I've bought larger, if not newer, boats. While I doubt it will happen again, it might but only if I hit the lotto.

When I broke my leg skiing three years ago, I went through this mental process (with what limited "mental" I have left ) and I can tell you that selling my "last" boat will surely be the worst day of my life.