Buying: Windy 8000 vs Sunseeker San Remo?

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Still haven't bought a boat. Now doubting between Sunseeker San Remo 33 (twin Volvo diesel) from 1988 and Windy 8000 (5.7 l Volvo Petrol) from 1993.

Does anyone have any experience with the Windy 8000?

San Remo seems to be much more boat for the price but with the Windy I can also cruise the canals of Amsterdam.

Price difference isn't much really...

I really appreciate you giving me your comments cause I am stuck.

Thanks

Frederik
 
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Still haven't bought a boat. Now doubting between Sunseeker San Remo 33 (twin Volvo diesel) from 1988 and Windy 8000 (5.7 l Volvo Petrol) from 1993.

Does anyone have any experience with the Windy 8000?

San Remo seems to be much more boat for the price but with the Windy I can also cruise the canals of Amsterdam.

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Once again I find myself in a difficult situation. Being a Norwegian and would want to praise Norwegian craftmanship, I still find it difficult to say anything else but "go for the Sunseeker".. Why ... your intende cruising seem to be taking you to Netherlands (cross channel?)... and fuel availability in the UK and Netherlands may become an issue if you go for anything else than diesel. The 8000 is a great boat, with good seakeeping and a very high quality of build, but for the use you imply, the petrols are a drawback you cannot ignore...

Define your intended use and cruising area, then select a type of boat ... don't do it the other way around please.
 
Others have said 'You can't go wrong with a Sunseeeker';, OK each can have their opinion but not all their boats are stand-out winners.

A few years ago there was a similar post on here about the San Remo; from memory, very few people seemed to have been on one let alone owned one. Howrver someone pointed out that the San Remo ( in both its forms) was one of the slowest/low selling boat that Sunseeker had ever made. They also pointed out that as a 'Short and dumpy' cruiser it wasn't of their then specialism and not somethiing that they were particularly good at.

Best way to sort it out ? Phone Sunseeker or do some research on numbers sold / engines etc. I know of a few which did not move on in the SoF, so maybe something in the old wives tales.

Did someone also mention that one of the engine options left the boat underpowered ??

Sorry I can 't remember more but I can not find those old threads. I bet BrendanS can !!

As for Windy ,, never heard anyone criticize any of their smaller models ( apart from the price !!)
 
Thank you all for your usefull comments. I think I have to add that the price of diesel and petrol doesn't differ a lot in the Netherlands (diesel is about euro 1.10 per liter, petrol is about euro 1.40). Is that different in the UK?

Also Windy has one engine, Sunseeker has 2.

I'll ask Sunseeker some questions - thanks for apssing the rumours.

Best regards

Frederik
 
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I think I have to add that the price of diesel and petrol doesn't differ a lot in the Netherlands (diesel is about euro 1.10 per liter, petrol is about euro 1.40). Is that different in the UK?


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Yes, very. Marine diesel is less than half the cost of petrol here. There is talk of us losing the concession that allows this, which will make our diesel almost as much as petrol here.

The doomsayers are convinced this will decimate the marine industry. I guess that isn't your experience of similarly priced fuel over there though?
 
No in fact the marine industry is thriving here, and mainly with petrol boats. Also lots of vintage (I used to own a Riva myself) guzzling leaded petrol that you still can get at a lot of places too (or you can use lead-in-a-bottle).

I think what helps is that we have a lot of water in the country. There is so much water that you don't really have to go to sea. So the choice usually falls towards smaller boats with bigger engines, still enabling one to cruise the rivers and (city) canals.

Anyway that's basically my choice too: do I go for the bigger boat with the double diesels or the smaller one with the single petrol.

Cheers

Frederik
 
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