Is it Me?

[Lakesailor]

I see an article in this month's YM about ugrading your deck gear. Owner is pictured grinning like a Cheshire Cat.
He's just spent £2500 on a boat that is worth (Boats and Outboards) between 10 and 14 K.
Is he mad? He's got new winches, traveller, mainsheet, genoa tracks, kicker and some odds and sods.
He's spent a quarter of the value of the boat on this gear.
I could have sold him some 3 in 1 oil for only ......£500. A bargain

Is it me? Is it worth spending that kind of brass?

 

[Talbot]

Certainly if he is keeping the boat, and thus getting extra pleasure from it. Not so clever if doing the boat up for re-sale.

 

[Deleted member 478]

I agree with you. I had a broken Autohelm 4000 that I took too ripoffmarine.com who quoted £400 to fix it. With a furrowed brow, I took it apart myself and found that a roll-pin had sheared. Cost 6p to replace. Haven't cast my shadow aross their door since.

 

[tonyran]

I read the same article - prices did seem a bit steep. I thought most of the fittings were light weight alloy; they dont use brass very much these days for running rigging.

 

[Lakesailor]

Surrey eh?
Would you understand "Can't see the point in parting with a wedge like that"?

 

[Peppermint]

Re: Bit rich for my taste.

I've been humming and harrrrring over a cockpit enclosure for about £400, for about two years. I'd reckon to get another year or two out of the decision yet.

The only think I'd leap into major expenditure for would have to be an item that stopped me using the boat completely. So rig, sails, hull and engine.

 

[benjenbav]

I thought he was grinning cos YM had paid for the gear which he was then going to unscrew and sell at the Beaulieu jumble prior to putting his old gear back.

 

[tonyran]

Hi Lake Sailor. Certainly not £500 for a can of 3 in 1. We'se canny doon he-ar.

 

[ccscott49]

He's obviously never heard of a boat jumble.

 

[Lakesailor]

Wrong side. That's North East. I'm North West, but speak with an impeccable East Yorkshire accent (more towards York really). We share the same flat "a"s as Her Majesty but tend towards the heavier "u"s which makes offerings such as "up yours" sound more painful.

Now look what you've done. I've highjacked my own thread.

 

[aitchw]

It's a joke to folk like me. He has spent 5 times what my boat cost me and 2.5 times the total I have invested in her now. Just wish I had £2500 to spend on buying a boat let alone equipping one.

 

[Lakesailor]

You and me both. I think that editorially they made a bit of a mistake. It would heve been better if they could have found a guy with a £20K boat to upgrade. That would have seemed a better investment.
I guess their stance would be that this is only an example and you spend what you feel happy with.
Still, I'm not here to appologise on their behalf. I would have put the money towards a boat upgrade. That's my situation, I'm not saying his boat is naff.