sailaboutvic
Well-Known Member
After the saga of our course computer packing up ,
We looked at way of reducing the cost of buying a new complete system costing 2.7k when you add on extra bits .
After Many calls and emails to dealers we found a refurbished ACU 400 from Raymarine priced at £650 , great buy, add to that a sensor core and sea talk to sea talkNG , cutting our cost to around £1200k or so we thought .
Reading Raymarine Manuel it say our ST 6000 control can be used with the ACU 400 but there some option we couldn't use ,
This turn out to be the setting options so in reality you can't use the ST6000 unless you had the new P70s control to set up the computer first , now we have to add on another £520 . The cost now gone up to over £1700 .
As we was about to order the new unit on line we found the ACU didn't include VAT , bit naughty of Raymarine not to say if there price was ex Vat of not .
The cost goes up again touching £1850 .
Our next surprise was that both the refurbished ACU and the new P70s only come with very short cables a few CM long , which mean buying new back bone cables and connections add another £150
Up goes the cost to well over 2k
Then there carriage involve from two company's has Raymarine would only sell us the the ACU . And up goes the cost again .
Here where a stoke of luck comes into play , some times you have to stand back and not be too hasty in parting with your money .
in the mean time we put out feelers with other cruiser for a second hand unit at the same time a RM engineer I know very well in Malta said he has one .
But he won't send it we need to pick it up as he want to fit it for us so there no problems .
So we had a decision to make last night . Pay well over £2100 to get our old pilot working or hand steer 500 NM to Malta and get a second hand good working unit for £300 a saving of £1800
I leave it to you guys to guess what route we taking .
people who thinking of buying a project boat think very carefully ,
Nothing come cheap when it comes to boats .
Just one last thing , it's a bit tight of any company when sell unit s cost hundreds of pound to only add a few CM of cable , or am I expecting too much ?
We looked at way of reducing the cost of buying a new complete system costing 2.7k when you add on extra bits .
After Many calls and emails to dealers we found a refurbished ACU 400 from Raymarine priced at £650 , great buy, add to that a sensor core and sea talk to sea talkNG , cutting our cost to around £1200k or so we thought .
Reading Raymarine Manuel it say our ST 6000 control can be used with the ACU 400 but there some option we couldn't use ,
This turn out to be the setting options so in reality you can't use the ST6000 unless you had the new P70s control to set up the computer first , now we have to add on another £520 . The cost now gone up to over £1700 .
As we was about to order the new unit on line we found the ACU didn't include VAT , bit naughty of Raymarine not to say if there price was ex Vat of not .
The cost goes up again touching £1850 .
Our next surprise was that both the refurbished ACU and the new P70s only come with very short cables a few CM long , which mean buying new back bone cables and connections add another £150
Up goes the cost to well over 2k
Then there carriage involve from two company's has Raymarine would only sell us the the ACU . And up goes the cost again .
Here where a stoke of luck comes into play , some times you have to stand back and not be too hasty in parting with your money .
in the mean time we put out feelers with other cruiser for a second hand unit at the same time a RM engineer I know very well in Malta said he has one .
But he won't send it we need to pick it up as he want to fit it for us so there no problems .
So we had a decision to make last night . Pay well over £2100 to get our old pilot working or hand steer 500 NM to Malta and get a second hand good working unit for £300 a saving of £1800
I leave it to you guys to guess what route we taking .
people who thinking of buying a project boat think very carefully ,
Nothing come cheap when it comes to boats .
Just one last thing , it's a bit tight of any company when sell unit s cost hundreds of pound to only add a few CM of cable , or am I expecting too much ?
