Follow-Up on Value My Dinghy

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I put the clinker dinghy on Boats and Outboards at £1600 with a link to some nice pictures on a small web-site.
The ad appeared at 16.03 and I had a reply at 16.30 and a phone call a bit later on. First guy came up from Hemel Hempstead on Thursday and bought it as well as the Seagull outboard. He was obviously smitten as soon as I pulled the cover off and tried a little gentle bartering, but his heart wasn't really in it. The other guy from Stafford who was coming on Sunday was informed. "Bugger" he said.

So I got a price I was very happy with. I obviously, as it seems, could have asked more, but we're both satisfied with a good deal.
The forum suggested between £10 and £2500 so I guess it was kind of right(?)

I notice there are very few boats on ebay. Has the bubble burst for ebay?
 
Nope. Got a Seahawk 17 trailer-sailer now (like in the avatar, but that isn't mine). Just waiting for a decent day to chuck it in the lake and see if it floats. It's the same hull as a Pedro but has a lifting steel keel in the stub as well.

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Well, it may not be wooden, but it looks a good boat for the lakes. I assume you can manage a brew & a kip down below - if so, it is perfick.

You could always paint it brown with lighter "grain" effect, no-one would realise it wasn't wooden from the shore line.:D
 
It has two berths and a small (camping) cooker, but more importantly for us daysailers, it has a roomy cockpit. The Foxcub was a bit restricted in that area.
It's my intention to refine the trailing aspect to the point where it's just a 20 minute job to arrive, unstrap, step mast and launch. If that becomes too much I'll dry sail it from a lakeside location. Swinging moorings are a tad expensive, but the access issues here are the problem. Tender storage/launching and car parking can be more than the mooring costs.

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Well done.
All this boatchanging will make a boatbuilder of you yet!

I think that when things are priced right, they generate the real interest and sell quickly cos there's no reason not to buy..And a fair price leaves both parties happy.

Now, whats with those serious cockpit 'Gripper Bars' on the new boat? Are you intending to fit a trapeze ..
 
Lakesailor said:
I put the clinker dinghy on Boats and Outboards at £1600 with a link to some nice pictures on a small web-site.
The ad appeared at 16.03 and I had a reply at 16.30 and a phone call a bit later on. First guy came up from Hemel Hempstead on Thursday and bought it as well as the Seagull outboard. He was obviously smitten as soon as I pulled the cover off and tried a little gentle bartering, but his heart wasn't really in it. The other guy from Stafford who was coming on Sunday was informed. "Bugger" he said.

So I got a price I was very happy with. I obviously, as it seems, could have asked more, but we're both satisfied with a good deal.
The forum suggested between £10 and £2500 so I guess it was kind of right(?)

I notice there are very few boats on ebay. Has the bubble burst for ebay?
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I did say £2500 didn't I ????? :-)


I think Ebay devalues boats.
 
Nice looking boat Phil. Bet you have fitted it with outriggers, twin masts and trolley wheels before the winter is out.:D
 
Blueboatman said:
Well done. Now, whats with those serious cockpit 'Gripper Bars' on the new boat? Are you intending to fit a trapeze ..
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Yes. Hmm. They are stainless and are also fitted as coachroof handrails. If you look in the cockpit there is the stainless tiller as well. Not sure I like them, but they're smart enough. I will be laminating a wooden tiller however.
 
Do you have any photos of the interior, please? They seem like very innovative boats and I'm looking for a cheap way back into yachting.

Regards,

Mike
 
Ayup Lad. Here is the Seahawk website with quite a few pics of interiors. There are 2 and 4 berth layouts. Quite basic, but flexible if you are handy.

Some boats for sale as well. (£2k seems a bit dear.)
 
Lakesailor said:
Ayup Lad. Here is the Seahawk website with quite a few pics of interiors.
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Thanks for the plug of the site! May I use the photographs you have posted here, please.

Tut, tut! Fancy using a photo from the site as your avatar without asking permission. I thought SeaHawk owners were better than that!

Fancy organising a SeaHawk owner's meet some time in 2010 in your part of the world, as recompense?
 
Lakesailor said:
Ayup Lad. Here is the Seahawk website with quite a few pics of interiors. There are 2 and 4 berth layouts. Quite basic, but flexible if you are handy.

Some boats for sale as well. (£2k seems a bit dear.)
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I trust that ecclesiastical windows are high on the mods list,

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Looks a very neat little boat, look forward to some pics of her sailing, a panel of the usual suspects will then give you tips on; luff tension, sheeting angles and mast-rake etc.:) Perhaps another ferrycam sailby would be in order.
 
I have a forumite on standby for voyaging. Just putting the finishing touches to my mast transport system and docking arm.
Also just working out the various options re: mooring or trailer/sailing.
Trailer/sailing from Ferry Nab will cost me £14.50 per launch (including parking and my local discount)
A swinging mooring will be £383 (including local discount) but associated car parking and tender storage will inflate that as well as buying the mooring gear.
As far as tenders go you can launch anything you can carry at Ferry Nab for free, but car parking would be £5. That realistically means a kayak (bit dicey) or the pratting about with a rubber duck.
National Trust car parks are free to members at £36.50 per annum (special deal) and tenders can be left on the shore, if a bit insecure. An inflatable is more secure, but carrying that, blowing up, deflating etc is more faff.

This means that just turning up with the boat on the trailer and launch/recovering at Ferry Nab is the cheaper option until you get to 29 launches, when the swinging mooring/National Trust option starts to become cheaper, but you get to 40 launches before a swinging mooring/Ferry Nab option starts to become less expensive.

I very much doubt I would get 29 sails in during a typical season, so apart from the faff of unstrapping the boat, stepping the mast and launching and the opposite after a day sail, the trailer/sail option looks best. Plus, the facilities are better at Ferry Nab than other mooring sites.

A Ferry Web Cam attack seems very likely. I will, of course, shine a mega torch at it again and suffer the subsequent arrest stoically.
 
What is it about this forum? A fellow SeaHawk owner spots an avatar lifted from my site, so I register, so I can ask permission to use some of the new SeaHawk photos posted in this thread.

However, it tells me that as a new user I'm moderated, but doesn't get round to approving me. Nor does it seem to allow me to add an avatar of my own - showing a single radio button decaring I don't want to use one - and while this goes on all I see is more people posting photos taken from the SeaHawk site with barely a credit!

Now I suppose I should be pleased about the publicity, but I am not sure that http://www.seahawk17.plus.com is getting quite the mention it deserves. :)
 
Are you ever tempted to return to Loch McUllswatter. It must be a bit cheaper there to have a mooring..yes/no

Tim
 
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