Usually yes but I think this seller has stronger ethics. I will investigate further.
It’s a Ribtec 585 from 2001 in otherwise good condition with only 347 hrs engine hours on the original engine so must assume very light use and never been anti fouled.
Ribtecs from that era where very, very good boats. If the price is right it could be worth a punt.
Has it been stored on its beam for long periods?
Take a big mate with you, and get him to lean inwards and outwards on the buoyancy tube, while you look for any movement in the cracks. The hull is pretty well supported forward and aft by the structure of the buoyancy chambers under the floor, but these hulls can be prone to 'hinging' amidships around the outer edge of the rigid floor amidships, in the position indicated below.
2007 would almost certainly have been a South African built Ribtec.
IIRC it was one of the first ones built in SA, and it turned out to have been built in a rush to get it shipped to the Southampton Boat Show on time. But the poor lay-up in that example just exposed a known weak spot of many RIB designs of that era; more recent designs have much better support in that area.
That's shockingly bad design. Cracks are almost inevitable at the place you have indicated - at the root/"hinge" of that cantilevered flap of GRP.
It has a Yamaha 100 from 2001 with 347 hours but I also have a 3yr old mercury 100hp to put on it.
Thank you. I will try Keira.
