Any experiences with Clarke and Carter Interyacht?

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Thinking ahead now for July which is when I hopefully will be in a position to upgrade our boat, have noticed this company with an office on the Medway at Gillingham.

Wondered if anyone had used them to buy or sell a yacht, and what their experiences were.

As our current boat is in the sub £20,000 bracket I was thinking of selling it myself on all of the usual websites, however I am daunted by all the aggro that goes with this so was wondering about a broker, there is also a good chance that I may buy our next yacht from them as they seem to have plenty of choice at the moment.

Also if anyone has an idea of their charges that would be usefull, I did ring but they are still closed for the looney season.
 
A sub £20k sale might well be worth a shot on Ebay. Comprehensive description and lots of good quality pics a must, wherever you decide to sell it. (I'd put the pics on photo bucket or similar and link to them). Sold my last boat on there in 10 days for £15k, no hassle worth talking about.
 
I bought my Jeanneau new from C&C, and they sold my 22ft Jouet (£6k) prior to delivery for £100 which covered their admin, quite fair.
They are both good business wise and friendly. I note that none of the directors seem to rush around in new Mercs, and they sail reasonable boats.
Not sure about their rates though.

I would trust them as a whole.
 
Bought our 1st boat Limbo from C&C at Levington, very professional. Asked for a quote when it came time to sell her, still professional, but was going to cost nearly £1,000, and would cost me that up to 6 months after I terminated any contract with them to sell a £10,000 boat, so sold her myself through usual website as per Paul above. No problems, worth giving it a go.
 
aquaholic said:
Thanks for the replys chaps, will give it a go myself then when the time comes.
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Hi, Commission is normally 8% +vat taken from the selling price for marina based brokers, but with your value boat iam sure you could negotiate this down to 6%. some ten years ago I sold my boat through C&C and found them to be very slow in reporting any info back to me, I had to phone them to produce any kind of urgency, but as other have commented they seemed to have upped there game since.
 
aquaholic said:
Thinking ahead now for July which is when I hopefully will be in a position to upgrade our boat, have noticed this company with an office on the Medway at Gillingham.

Wondered if anyone had used them to buy or sell a yacht, and what their experiences were.

As our current boat is in the sub £20,000 bracket I was thinking of selling it myself on all of the usual websites, however I am daunted by all the aggro that goes with this so was wondering about a broker, there is also a good chance that I may buy our next yacht from them as they seem to have plenty of choice at the moment.

Also if anyone has an idea of their charges that would be usefull, I did ring but they are still closed for the looney season.
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What are you thinking of buying??
 
Dealt with their guy Aaron at Burnham when selling previous boat. V professional and helpful. Would recommend them.
 
sold once through them and bought once (current boat ) no probs with either transaction.

but have used "boats and outboards" twice to sell other boats and had good results there too but without having to pay commision .

if i was selling current boat i would go the private way again .
 
Speak to Duncan

.. at the Levington office. He sold my Centaur 2 years ago (sub £10k) cant remember commission but it seemed to be the going rate. Very professional, very fair, and he is a Jester man, so nuts as well :D.
 
Both my experiences of Clarke and Carter when I've been in the market to buy have been good. In one case I bought the boat, the other I walked away.

One thing that might be worth looking at is their "used boat show". They used to have one at Levington in October, but it looks like they will have a second one at Gillingham in April.
 
Bought once and sold twice through them, very proffesional.

Highly recommend their October used boat sale (bit late now I know) sold my Dufour at it after it had hung around 6 months at Westwater Yacht Sales. No change in price just good marketing and footfall.
 
PaulGooch said:
A sub £20k sale might well be worth a shot on Ebay. Comprehensive description and lots of good quality pics a must, wherever you decide to sell it. (I'd put the pics on photo bucket or similar and link to them). Sold my last boat on there in 10 days for £15k, no hassle worth talking about.
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I would second this.
Our last boat sold for over £50k and I took loads of internal and external pictures and put together loads of info.
I then got myself a account to create a web page (tripod.com in our case). This I did in Word and then uploaded it - easy enough even for me!
I could then direct people to this from far more simple (and therefore cheap or free) ads on boatsandoutboards, apolloduck, here etc.
If you do it yourself, you may think you will have more hassle but, in my experience of brokers, they don't do a lot for you for their massive fees. I have still had to show people over the boat and do the negotiating etc. All you are paying for is access to their database of folks wanting a boat. Maybe if your boat and home are miles apart, it makes more sense.
To be honest, if I wanted a boat like yours, I wouldn't start looking at brokers sites first anyway as I would expect a better deal from someone who isn't using a broker as you have to budget for losing their fees in the sale price.
One final thought - is there an owners association for your class? If so, this can be one of the best places to advertise.
Best of luck with your change.
Cheers
D
 
We bought our boat from them. They were OK, but they didn't really put themselves out to help us (or the vendor). The boat was at SYH, but we were sent off with the key to view it unaccompanied; they couldn't answer any questions themselves but just phoned the vendor and relayed information... that sort of approach.
We have been to one of their used boat sales, which was nicely organised and useful. And we have visited their Burnham office and viewed a boat or two from there - telling them that it was just to get a better idea of what was available and no immediate sale was likely - the salesman there was very helpful and knowledgable.

We are about to start selling our boat (Moody 31, anyone?), and will not use C&C (yet anyway). We'll start by using Wingdiver's approach, and only if it doesn't sell after a few months will we start thinking about brokers.
 
I can only agree with Wingdiver (and AliM).... we did that for our previous boat, and were able to put a LOT of pictures and info online.... it helped sell the boat very quickly...

To give an idea, we had in excess of 60 pictures and several pages of info on systems, condition, maintenance, etc... took me a few hours, but sold the boat in 2 weeks!
 
Morgana said:
I can only agree with Wingdiver (and AliM).... we did that for our previous boat, and were able to put a LOT of pictures and info online.... it helped sell the boat very quickly...

To give an idea, we had in excess of 60 pictures and several pages of info on systems, condition, maintenance, etc... took me a few hours, but sold the boat in 2 weeks!
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In fact, Mr Magna Carter was a bit stunned as he became boatless far quicker than he might have imagined. I believe the transaction was lightning quick, and the negotiation virtually unnecessary. Boat last seen on the Fastnet tracker website, IIRC. :D
 
Yep... stuck the pages up, and arranged a mutually convenient time for a viewing 12 days later... viewer came on board, had a good look, asked a few questions, and offered the asking price, gave me a deposit, and 10 days later she'd gone!

Then went on to complete the Fastnet, as well as quite a few long distance RORC events.... mind you, she was a cracking boat!
 
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