Buying a 7-8m - Help appreciated

Hi Duncan - and Whisper - I concur. I love the Botnia Targas - all of them, superb. But pricey, and smaller and limited accommodations, relatively. Aquadors - lovely! Nimbus coupes (various) - lovely! All boats - lovely! They're a lot of boats out there. Just get a boat, and go boating! (The most important thing about boats, is the people you go boating with; as someone who knows a lot more about boating than me, once said).
Best wishes.
 
I don't know if your first para. is true or not as I've not tried many similar sized competitors. Ours does give me confidence though.

Totally agree re. the accommodation shortcomings of the 25 and probably the 27 as well. I'll just have to get a 30 next /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif - ah but that's where your ccomment about money comes in with a vengeance. Ah well, never mind /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif.

Also agree that some other Scandinavians are probably over spec'd for the likes of us - I mean who wants a readily scratched or faded blue hull?

Tight Lines
John
 
And thought this was going to be easy!
Had a look at the specs for Finnmaster, Faeton and Aquador and asked for further info but I think they might ruin the budget. The Rodman although over budget is tempting but the Bene 760 does have the widest decks and all the toys essential to traveling , safety and comfort for two. The price offered will allow me to go for a bigger screen - saves the eyesight!
The plan is that as the good lady often works part of the weekends she can drop me off at the marina on the Friday afternoon on her way to work, come 'home' to the marina after work in the witching hours and we either go out to play or she goes back to work! Either way I win by having the boat. With mains I can always hook up the laptop to use as a PC, TV or DVS player - not to forfet the cold ones in the fridge although at this time of year ....
 
hmmm - well I didn't raise Faeton's..............

spent a bit of time researching the SH nimbus / aquadors and feel vindicated - you aren't going to get what you are looking for for close to your budget unless you go for a lot older craft (10 years or so).

Faeton and Rodman have a lot in common - the Beneteau and Jeaneau are the pocket cruisers.

There are a lot of happy 760 customers out there and the boat has excellent slow speed handling as well.

if I was getting the Rod 810 it would be with the single D4 unit

7" raymarine screen at the helm is fine!
 
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Not sure that many singlehanders would agree with you . . .
 
A couple of quick general personal observations to go with the plethora of specific advice already given.

Size, ''7-8m'', Many people including me, soon after buying a first boat wish they had bought bigger, and often change boats soon afterwards. If you even consider that you may wish to go bigger later, it is much cheaper to do it now.

On Training, I have taken courses on my boat and on school boats, the latter is preferable. On your own boat you are thinking about your boat, on someone else’s you can concentrate on handling and navigation. (I spent a couple of hours trying to sort out why you water pump kept blowing fuses when I should have be doing a passage plan)
 
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The most important thing about boats, is the people you go boating with.

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Not sure that many singlehanders would agree with you . . .

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I agree. Interesting point. Actually, one could argue that the statement works really well for ‘singlehanders’, too… ie, maybe they like sailing ‘singlehanded’, and it’s important for them that people don’t go sailing with them.
Or else, maybe as in the case of a lot of coastal, cruising, singlehanders, they can’t get (suitable?) people to go sailing with them? (Certainly, on the occasions I went sailing singlehanded, many moons ago, I could only survive my own company for a day or two…) Anyway, the people you go boating with – or without – contribute greatly to the fun – or otherwise – of your boating… Usually.

It’s like another great old seafarer I used to know, who used to say to novices something like: “Just get out there and do some boating – whereever – on whatever – and find out if you’ve got any common sense. If you haven’t, take up golf!”

By the way, I know nothing about golf either.

Best wishes
 
Well I've had the little SunFish sail board and moved up to a 16 speed boat. Moving to the UK I had a little trailable dinghy but wanted more room and moved to a 24' (well it said 24' but was more like 21') trailer sailer that wallowed like a pig, was narrow but we managed manged nights and days on her all year round so moving up to 7-8m should be OK. Yes we do think something round 9-12m would be nice but decided to control our dreams!
Buying a boat is often like buying a house - always wishing we had more of this and more of that only to discover that we have loaded it with things we forgot about! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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