Help Please - what's my old boat worth?

[Cliveshep]

Due to continued unemployment I need to sell my old ex-hire Ocean 30. It has a mooring (transferable for a £400 fee) on the River Wey in Weybridge. The boat is a bit care-worn but very usable and was repainted last Autumn. It has 5 berths in 3 cabins, plus a sofa for an occasional narrow sixth berth.

It has a full tank of diesel, a Thorneycroft T108 indirect cooled engine and hydraulic box on shaft which is the usual Thorneycroft 20 second grind to start. Hot & cold pressurised water (calorifier), shower, pump-out toilet with a manual pump-out kit as well, cooker with oven, fridge, Eberspacher heater to main and aft cabin, echo sounder, two compasses, ancient ship-to-shore used only for intercom, Pioneer stereo CD radio with speakers fore and main cabin.

Outside it has polished s/steel davits with an 8'6" double skinned grp dinghy and 3.5hp outboard, stainless steel stanchions with teak capping (needing re-varnishing) dock fenders, set of 8 large round fenders, newish nylon ropes, 5 year old hood, Lowfrans anchor winch and CQR anchor & chain, a Danforth kedge aft with part chain/part rope, all nav lights and anchor light (LED) and wired for 240 from shore power.

Can members please offer opinions on the likely selling price? Here are some pics. These pics are not my selling pics, just some from my album that give an indication of condition. She's no glamour-puss but a solid and reliable and roomy old cruising boat.

Thanks for your patience and help.

 

[PaulGooch]

I'm guessing around the £15,000 mark. If i was in your position i'd give it a good clean and polish, take lots of good pics, (inside, out and of various detail) write a comprehensive description and put it on Ebay, with a low starting price to generate plenty of interest. This type/price range of boat generally does well on Ebay.

To save a bit of money on the Ebay listing, put the pictures on a free website/your own webspace or one of the free picture hosting websites. There are also one or two sites that offer free listing, here included, where you can link to your Ebay listing. I'd also suggest that you list it for 10 days, to finish on a Monday evening. Arrange for all viewings to take place on the weekend before the listing ends and you can spend the weekend on the boat, saves keep running back and forth. Best of luck.

 

[theguerns]

selling price

With the market as it is today (the true market not what the brokers would like us to beleive) if you have the boat in realy clean and good condition to sell her withing 3 months I would market her around £12000. There are alot of this type of boat on the market so alot of choise for the buyer.
Regards PG Marine Consultants.

 

[Chris_d]

I think the other prices are bit off, these boats do well on the Thames, asking prices around 20K, try chatting to Dominic at Bray boat sales he should give you the best idea of what it worth.

 

[Sneds]

I think list it at £15k with a view to geting £12k

A nice usable boat.

 

[lovezoo]

To save a bit of money on the Ebay listing, put the pictures on a free website/your own webspace or one of the free picture hosting websites.

No need to do that - pictures are free on ebay motors.

 

[byron]

She will sell in the £15-£18k footprint. Try her on boatsandoutboards.co.uk and also on appollo duck.
Broom 30s are always in demand and former hire or not she's still built like the proverbial brick skata house.

 

[PaulGooch]

No need to do that - pictures are free on ebay motors.

Am i right that you only get 10 though ?

 

[Cliveshep]

Many thanks for all the responses thus far. Being needy as well as greedy if it all comes to a head over the next few weeks I'll follow Byron's pricing structure and go for the most and see what happens.

I bought it 5 years ago from Richardson's for £14k which included a BSC and new hood - the boat itself was flaking paint all over and full of **** - literally as the pump-out had never been cleared and had over-flowed for some reason. It had been moored with the hood collapsed, open to the elements for 3 years and was offered as a project at £13k. We spent several thousands just getting it to the usable state it is in now. It was two years before we could get rid of the bilge stink!

 

[AndieMac]

All the best with the sale Clive...