fire damaged sealine s28

[jamie langstone]

Just be looking on ebay and found for sale the sealine s28 that was fire damaged from the yacht that caught fire at swanick Marina . Looks like a good buy for the price (£27.950 or offers ) if you don,t mind the work involved to put it back in to service. I just hope that the owner got a good pay out on his insurance at least enough to get another boat as good as it was.

 

[sailorman]

how much would the engine alone be worth

 

[burgundyben]

I went to ebay to have a look, strikes me that the Statesman 305 that's engineless might be a better buy.

 

[Whitelighter]

Is that the insurance company selling her then?

It always makes me laugh - the list I
Of things that needs doing to make this a '£50k' boat. Surely if it was simple/cheap the owner would do it and sell for £50k rather than taking the pill

At nearly £30k it looks like an expensive millstone

 

[[2068]]

There's some major work to do there.
The deck on an S28 is actually many layers: outer fibreglass, marine ply, an inner fibreglass shell, then the headlinings / trim.
The base of the throttle box also looks cooked, so all the cables will probably have melted.
To repair that lot properly won't be easy.

 

[volvopaul]

Have you seen it ?its worth nothing like 28k, someone is trying to make a fast buck.
If it was worth doing the big boys would have snapped it up. It's worth what the motors are and that's it.

 

[Beamishken]

My guess is it's £10k's worth even if you bought it for the engines it would cost you transport then heartache to environmentaly dispose of whats left

 

[Solitaire]

I know the owner. He got paid out and offered a sum for it, but was outbid by a local broker who offered double. I don't know the full ins and outs, but the engines were the real value. Well maintained KAD 32s .

 

[colhel]

Seems an odd thing for a broker to get involved in.

 

[Dill et Bound]

Seems an odd thing for a broker to get involved in.

I dont know.
Like Solitaire says the engineering stripped out must be 20k plus..
But I agree with Ken at 10k for the whole thing, You would struggle to get your money back..
Perhaps the broker knew a boat that needed a couple of KADS and was dealing..

 

[Solitaire]

Seems an odd thing for a broker to get involved in.

You would be amazed!

 

[Solitaire]

I dont know.
Like Solitaire says the engineering stripped out must be 20k plus..
But I agree with Ken at 10k for the whole thing, You would struggle to get your money back..
Perhaps the broker knew a boat that needed a couple of KADS and was dealing..

I know what the owner offered and what the broking company offered.

 

[[2068]]

A decent pair of KAD32's might be 8k a side, but that doesn't add up to £28k.

 

[Beamishken]

I know what the owner offered and what the broking company offered.

are you going to tell us then put us out of our misery
I bet everyone is dying to know

 

[Solitaire]

are you going to tell us then put us out of our misery
I bet everyone is dying to know

No!

 

[superheat6k]

I am sure whatever it is worth, most if not all reading or responding here can easily find plenty of other places to 'invest' £28k, or £16k or IMHO even £5k. Certain boats deteriorate to a state where they become a complete liability i.e. worth less than £0

So perhaps there is no realistic price here ? Not sure I would want couple of light use and rather sooty KAD engines.

Very sad that it happened, glad no one was seriously hurt, but this issue is now commercial.

 

[Dill et Bound]

Hummm.
Oh well..
I once repaired a boat that had suffered an explosion of a gas type..
I.E. Gas leaked , Owner put the kettle on. Bang !!! Lucky for him, blown out the main hatch and overboard...
Always smelt of burnt fiberglass.. Small ignition pockets everywhere..
I would never bother to repair a fire damaged boat, but it can be done..
A local charter business has a very nice boat based on a burnt out Fairline Turbo..
Hull survived, Deck burnt..
I have got over not knowing now..

 

[Beamishken]

No!

haha someone had to ask !!!!!