Can you help me choose? Sell Bizzy Bee and get 7 metre RIB or keep the Sealine S28

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After doing her PB2 and after myself doing a course on Roy's amazing 9m RIB, Deb and I have our sights firmly set on getting a RIB of circa 7m LOA next year.

However, we also love the marina life on board the S28 so ideally we'd keep Bizzy Bee too but, another however, we're having an extension to the house this year that is going to seriously eat into the finances especially as #1 son is returning home to drain our resources further (one reason for the extension - need more room for laddo).

Decisions decisions, heart says get the RIB and keep the S28 and do without other 'stuff' but head says only one possible for now constrained by finances if we still want to do the holidays abroad and generally not fuss too much about the affordability of 'stuff'

Anyone else been in similar circumstances and found a way of going with the heart?

p.s. Roy, kick Jamie out onto the streets and not doing the extension has been thought through and dismissed :)
 
I was in a somewhat similar position last year. I have a similar boat to your Sealine and decided to buy a 6.5m Rib for fun. The Rib was indeed great fun and we had a few nice day trips BUT after a year I decided to sell it as I just wasnt using it enough to justify its existence. At the end of the day it is another boat and still requires maintenance and looking after just as your sealine does and I decided one boat in my life is enough work.

Regarding Rib or Sealine, I would stick with the sealine to avail of the "marina life" and realistically there is very little you could do in the Rib that your sealine wont do, you cant however overnight in Rib.
 
I guess what you have to ask Gary is how often you will use the rib if you don't have ready accommodation, and you have a 2 or 3 hour journey each way, like when you started with the trail boat?
 
For what its worth G, the thing with ribs is they are great in good condition (hot n sunny) but in the cold ??..the other thing is, if you have a delicate spine ???..........nuff sed !!!..all in my PERSONAL OPINION !!!!! ps. if you need crew to bring it from Brighton, please take these points into consideration... 1, must be HOT ..2, must be calm ..3, must have, dry, safe chilled chocies n beer locker.. 4, non wind effected chart table (incase of plotter failure).... and last but not least a MINIMUM of TWIN 300hp WITH REHEAT !!!!!!
 
I will probably get shot for this; but sell the Sealine and use the money to buy a newish Bayliner 285 and a 6m / trailerable RIB. The 285 has more space / extra berth for the lad, less than half the maintenance on the single engine, you get the same overnight at anchor / marina experience as well as have a RIB on trailer to have sport fun wherever you want. And have money left to charter far away if you like.
 
+1 to all those saying stick with the sealine.. The sealine provides a home away from home in an environment you cherish. A RIB is a fun but expensive toy intended for warmer climates
 
What about chopping in the Sealine for something like a Windy Mirage 25, so you get sportsboat type handling but still have a few mod cons and can sleep over on it?
 
I have had two boats on a number of occasions. One will never get used enough to justify having it. Sold my RIB for a profit last summer (but I miss it and am looking at getting another one - just a small one... :D). If you give it any thought you can't financially justify having two boats, so just don't think about it.
 
i did the same thing had a regal 292 bought a 585 ribcraft with a 90 4 stroke used it all the time the first year or so after that only on scorching hot days, so less and less
plus no loo for the ladies.
p.s anybody want to buy a mint 585 ribcraft £13,500 on trailer
 
Hey Gary,

Friend of mine, prob known to the forum, has a Sealine XYZ and a RIB. Since buying the RIB, the "bigger boat" doesn't go anywhere and is used for sleeping on, chilling out etc. When they fancy going for lunch/dinner in the Solent (basically mid-week and every-weekend) , the RIB comes out to play. The other boat didn't move for a year at one point - and it was <2 years old too.

I think I'd probably do the same as a 7+m RIB is easy to go play with vs the hassle of getting the bigger boat out. They're also a giant floating fender so no real docking hassle. (going to get flamed for that..)

I appreciate that this is not the scenario you're talking about but your boat should be easy to get in/out, mess about in, go nice places in crappy weather and still sleep on it in the evening. Unless you have an apartment in the local marina to sleep/live in, I'd stay with what you've got and keep looking after it. Appreciate there seems to be a few issues at the mo but it's a popular boat, loads of spares and loads of enthusiasm from you/here so stick with it and go bigger when you want to/can.

All IMHO but thought the same recently + Med + sell + everything one does when a) the boat's a bit broken b) the weather's carp (n/a!) and c) the service,af,etc is due. You'll miss the adventure of going somewhere and sleeping on-board, all under your own steam.

Ciao

M
 
Gary, just imho of course, forget the RIB idea and just charter one now and again for a quick blast. I have a 1/3rd share in the forum 8.5m RIB and it is a nice toy, but we get very little use (I have not even laid eyes on it, literally, this year. My last trip was mid December 2013) yet I spent an hour today of a busy day (I'm still in the orifice) organising some service work. The only reason to keep it is all three owners are in similar position but it only costs us 1/3 each, and therefore just about makes sense. Actually it still doesn't, really.

I think you can make the mistake of thinking boating is about the boat (and I plead guilty on that score) when in fact it is about being on the sea, and you have the S28 for that, which will always beat a rib hands down for comfort and amount you can use it. And the amount you can sit on it at anchor chilling and chatting until dark drinking wine, and so on

Just my 0.02 of course - if you really want the rib then please buy it and post pictures!
 
We have been thinking along similar lines, but 7m is a big RIB so is that to be trailered or kept on a berth, both not cheap at that size either way unless you have the right vehicle already.
We are missing the towing to europe that we used to do so at the moment intend to keep the sports cruiser and add a cheap and cheerfull 17ft center console boat with a 100hp or so out board that we can keep beside the house.
All very well saying charter but we find that when we come to it....most recently in Corsica, they want £300 to £400 a day for a 21ft boat, which for me at least is a disincentive.
15 days hire will pay for my 17fter!
And eventually we will go along Colhel's line of thought and change the sportscruiser for a displacement boat. (I think that is what he is alluding to!)
 
Think this all depends on what type of boating you are into, if you do not intend going anywhere other than around the solent for day trips, a rib,s ok, if you want to push the boundary and go further you will be looking for the comfort and facility's that the sealine can offer, as you no we have a new very small rib tender, great fun, and we have been all over the Solent in it, but only on very nice days, which we do not get many of :) got to say chartering sounds the way to go, or just be on the jetty when Roy casts off :)
 
I think dj43 makes a good point.

We've had a few great days out in the recent weather but need a bit of luck when it's not so settled. Not a rib, but just as open!

I'm always conscious that what suits me (ie I'm happy to put up with) doesn't always suit the crew.
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
Keep the Sealine. And, when you need to pick the scab of ribbery:

http://www.solentribcharter.co.uk/bareboat/bareboat-rib-hire

Sorted! :D
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I was thinking just the same.

You like staying on the boat so the Sealine gets used. Whilst the initial charter rates seem prohibitive just the berthing costs divided into days will provide for pretty much all your use and there is no financial outlay. As a nation we have a fixation on owning things when rental actually makes far more sense.

All right so I'm biased given we charter the Princess 50 but it amazes me that more people don't just pick up the phone and rent for a few days when the mood suits. Instead they go out and spend hundreds of thousands of pounds buying something which gets used sporadically.

Henry :)
 
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