Anyone identify this boat please?

[jimmy_the_builder]

Spotted in LA* yesterday. In a fairly manky state but underneath the general grubbiness is a handsome-looking boat. What is it though? (Not for sale afaik, but would make a spectacular project).

* that's Littlehampton, innit

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

Trader or a Her-Shine

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Trader or a Her-Shine

Ooh well done W, looks like it might be a Trader 72.

 

[jfm]

Yup trader 70 something. MBY did an in-ter-est-ing seatrial on it years ago.

If they wont sell the boat at least try to buy the tender. Nice project projet:encouragement:

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Yup trader 70 something. MBY did an in-ter-est-ing seatrial on it years ago.

"In-ter-est-ing", eh? In a 50m double-hulled ice-class I'm-meeting-the-prime-minister kind of a way?

 

[MapisM]

Gotta love the glass replaced with the white panel and the eye painted on it...

 

[jfm]

"In-ter-est-ing", eh? In a 50m double-hulled ice-class I'm-meeting-the-prime-minister kind of a way?

Haha, no. IIRC, I think MBY concluded that, like driving an M5 or something in ice, you'd better not turn the skid control stabilisers off. I think the reviewer (Harper I guess) turned them off for a moment, frightened himself silly, and concluded they MUST be kept turned on at all times, and Trader never built any of these boats without them. Something like that anyway - it was 10 years++ ago. And i'm not the sort of nerd who remembers what was written in MBY back issues.

Shabbiness of that one aside, its not a bad looking boat. I totally love how they have fitted the smallest KVH domes on little home made winglets, even though there is miles of space on the arch, then wtf added big s/s support tube under each one

 

[petem]

I think we should club together and buy it for Wayne as his next project. Would be money well spent to see him restore it.

 

[Bouba]

Chlorophyta

 

[petem]

Looks a lot shorter in the photos than 72 foot. As others have said, does look quite handsome. The accommodation extends well far forward so lots of space inside I imagine.

Would that long Pasarelle bridge to the main deck? Wouldn't fancy that after a few beers.

 

[jon and michie]

Shabbiness of that one aside, its not a bad looking boat. I totally love how they have fitted the smallest KVH domes on little home made winglets, even though there is miles of space on the arch, then wtf added big s/s support tube under each one

The stainless poles might be for the dancing girls Lol

jon

 

[Whitelighter]

Here is one in much better condition

http://www.ancasta.com/boats-for-sale/trader-72-24683/

 

[longjohnsilver]

Here is one in much better condition

http://www.ancasta.com/boats-for-sale/trader-72-24683/

Good to know it's ready for the 2015 season

 

[TheOrs]

Nice boat.

So, just for a bit of fun and assuming the owner accepts the highest offer, what would you pay for JtB's find if you only had those two pic's to go on and you'd be committed to buy if your offer was accepted?

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Nice boat.

So, just for a bit of fun and assuming the owner accepts the highest offer, what would you pay for JtB's find if you only had those two pic's to go on and you'd be committed to buy if your offer was accepted?

I don't think you could bid anything for it without knowing the state of the machinery. If you assumed that all the machinery was completely gone, and all you were paying for was the hull as seen in the photos ... I have no idea, really; £10k? Not much, anyway.

 

[petem]

Nice boat.

So, just for a bit of fun and assuming the owner accepts the highest offer, what would you pay for JtB's find if you only had those two pic's to go on and you'd be committed to buy if your offer was accepted?

I can't see the mint one going for any where near the £395k being asked, let's say it's worth £200k. Even then it's got some very dodgy looking bits, the 'bathroom' for example.

So you'd have to value the cheap one as £200k less the cost of getting it into mint condition. What might the refurb cost be, £150k? In which case I'd value the cheap one at £50k. No doubt the owner wouldn't see it that way and would value JtB's one at some daft price.

 

[longjohnsilver]

I don't think you could bid anything for it without knowing the state of the machinery. If you assumed that all the machinery was completely gone, and all you were paying for was the hull as seen in the photos ... I have no idea, really; £10k? Not much, anyway.

I was thinking much the same, £10-15K without knowing anything else about the boat.

 

[Bouba]

I was thinking much the same, £10-15K without knowing anything else about the boat.

Got to be more just as a house boat

 

[longjohnsilver]

Got to be more just as a house boat

Hmm, maybe, but who knows how much work is/will be needed either just to keep it afloat or restore it to,its former glories.

 

[MapisM]

I can't see the mint one going for any where near the £395k being asked, let's say it's worth £200k.

Let's say what?
Sometimes it strike me that some owners (not to mention brokers!) have no clue of what any given amount of money can buy, in the current market.
Just as one example, have a look at this Alalunga.
If you think she's nice inside, and the e/r looks clean, you are nowhere near what the boat, which I've seen in flesh, actually is.
The interiors are utterly beautiful, built with a mind-boggling quality throughout.
And you could eat not just in her e/r, but also in all her bilges, bow to stern.
Not to mention the hull, whose seakeeping is legendary - just in case she might appeal also to Portofino! :encouragement:
If it weren't that we have too good reasons for not going that big, I would have purchased her there and then.
When you consider this, a £395k asking price for that Trader is beyond a joke... :ambivalence: