Is everyone happy witrh the boats they bought?

Started Back in my army day's( South African) My Beloved Corperal Used to call us all Tits or Teets(prounanced) if we did some thing not to his liking which was all the time. lost 20kg in first 6 weeks

Rog
 
Sorry I never out the boat type. Bought a new Maxi 1100 from the UK agent S.D Marine. The salesman let's just say is a typical salesman and the guy who commissions the boat is superb.
 
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Strangely enough, you might think, it's the male half of this partnership who hums and haws about blowing the lifesavings on a yacht... Still, when sailing, he's well trained in hanging on a jib sheet and he does a lovely cooked breakfast as well.
 
3 years on and I am still happy with my find. I knew the sort of thing I was looking for when I stunbled across my

New Bombay Trading Company [ yup thats the yard name and Florida not India ] Explorer 44.

The then owners had carried out a major refit so even at 34 years old she is no MAB.

My previous boat a Ryton 38 was a 4ktsb so it is nice to plan passages at 6 knts and expect to do better.
 
iangrant said:
Is everyone happy with their gleaming new or old boats purchased this year, Views now on new vessels delived, after sales service etc.. Interest mainly 'cause I bought second hand and I'm happy
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its almost 16 yrs since i bought my boat, very happy all round
Oyster 37 now 33 yrs old & we are the second owners, Oyster brokerage first class.
 
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Love our 33 year old GK24 - second one we've owned. It's the only boat I've sailed that fits like a glove - take hold of the tiller and you are the boat. Plus it has (in miniature) a double bed we can get a good nights sleep in, proper sea loo, excellent sea berths and and a table with comfortable seating for two.

Nobody else likes it though so after two years trying to sell it we are putting it back on the water in the cheapest marina we can find in easy distance of home, and I'm looking forward to tidying her up this Winter ready for a bit of weekend sailing.

But, thinking the GK would sell quickly we bought a Jeanneau 42.2 based in Croatia two years ago - 11 years old and a mess. I like a bit of a project and the price was right and no surprises - what looked messy and broken was messy and broken, including plumbing, instruments, lights. electrics etc etc but structurally good. A lovely boat to sail in the 20-35 knot winds common there, but I do miss having a boat that is slippery and responsive at 8 knots wind. And of course the accommodation and deck layout is everything we have been after for years, including a mich better intro to sailing for our non-sailing friends. I can't imagine spending all that money buying new, then not having the need to get to know every part of the boat (because it needs fixing).

One downside (hardly the boats fault) - we are having to replace the mast as we think another boat must have used its rigging against ours as a brake when parking alongside us this Summer when we weren't around.
 
Very happy with the boat, Jaguar 27.
I am one of those that suffers from seasickness and love the fact that I am at eye level with the cabin windows which really helps when down below.

The survey showed a very sound boat but being nearly 40 yeas old it was looking in need of a little TLC.

I have done a lot to the boat in the 9 months since I bought it and still more to do this winter, but love it.
 
doug748 said:
Yes, still happy with my choice.

18 years in all now. It's small enough to be handy and large enough to be comfy.
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Same here bought mine 1992. I am affluent enough to buy new.But I will not, she does everything she was designed for.
Sometimes I look at new ones in the port and feel a little bit envious, usually their size in a given length, but when I board them and see the lack of quality, that feeling passes quickly.
 
Very Happy with my Crabber I bought a couple of months ago and the Drifter I bought last year, both are very well designed and don't have the drawbacks or niggling design clangers some boats have.

Makes the new buy nicer when you can get such good deals with a lot of haggling ;) I got 10k off mine and spoke to a guy in the yard yesterday that got the same off his Moody29 the asking was 27K and he eventually got it for 17K - good on him. We both have boats to sell now though so might have to take a hit on them - I should be OK with a trailer sailer but he might take quite a loss on his, especially as someone punctured a hole in his bow without leaving a number - looks to have been a bowsprit that did the damage :rolleyes:
 
We are very happy with our Bavaria 38, 4th year of ownership, definitely the right choice for us. That said we intend to sail her back to the U.K. and then sell her. Nothing to do with the boat, we just want to do something else besides sailing.
 
Oh, yes!!!

I love her even much more than when I bought her three years ago. She is much better than I even hoped for, better sailing, more comfortable, more ingeniously made, more seaworthy. Love her to bits. I want to be buried in her Viking style.

I have been nearly overwhelmed, however, by the vast mass of things which have broken during my three years of ownership, despite the yacht's generally excellent condition and light use by the PO. This may be the inevitable consequence of buying a 9 year old boat -- the "sell by" date on a whole mass of components seems to come up right around 10 years . . . :(
 
Similar nearer to UK

;31932 said:
a few years ago, having never owned a boat before, I decided that I wanted one.
I flew out to Maine (from MIchigan) and spent the day at the Hinckley boat yard
(http://www.thehinckleyco.com). The salesman spent the day going over everything that I wanted. At the end of the day, the salesman said that it was obvious that I really didn't know enough about sailboats to have one built. He tactfully suggested that I buy a used one first and learn what I want and don't want. I disagreed. I flew home that evening, Thought it over and finally came to agree and bought a used Hinckley, a 49 ft center cockpit ketch. I love this boat, and could not be happier with it.

The Hinckley company is a first class operation. The original salesman, John Correa, lost a new boat sale, because he was looking out for my interest over looking out for his. The used boat salesman, Bob Pooler, is just as great. When I am at the Hinckley dock in Southwest Harbor, Maine, he always stops by to see if everything is fine. When i'm home (Michigan, usa), and send an email quesetion, I receive an answer immediately.

I took delivery in sept 2000 and my british captain and crew and myself sailed her to Miami where she spent the winter. This boat handled very well in the ocean and we saw 12 ft seas and 50kt winds.

A different captain, crew and myself sailed her back from Miami to Maine in the spring of 2001.

Am I happy? absolutely!! Did I have any idea how much it costs to maintain a boat? NO!!

the joke about standing in the shower tearing up hundred dollar bills just doesn't reflect the magnitude of expenses.

Still, I wouldn't change a thing.

bob
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Just a quick word for the people at Hardy Marine. They, in effect, offer a permanent consultancy service relating to every boat they have ever built. Malcolm Pannell the Sales Manager was crawling all over my Hardy 36 and offering good, free advice four years after I bought it - and that was a second hand purchase through their brokerage not a new boat. I deprived them of a fee when I sold Enigma direct - rather than take the huff, Malcolm wrote and congratulated me on the sale. I have bought a smaller Hardy and a not insigificant driver for that was the knowledge that they are still there backing up their excellent products. No connection with the Company
 
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