Is owning a boatyard a licence to print money ?

[StugeronSteve]

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Nobody has mentioned the massive increased costs on yards due to health and safety legislation which just never stops coming.

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Approx 12 bags of empty antifoul and oil cans:- disposal cost £1k!

 

[Birdseye]

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How many boatyard owners run supercars?

In my experience, most of the reason for high boatyard prices is due to inefficiencies. Poor processes, wasted materials (mostly paid for by customers), inadequate management control, insufficient training & poor communication. Most of which is exacerbated by very limited competition.

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From what I have seen, absolutely right!

[quoteBut I'm a retired management consultant, so what would I know? Hee Hee!

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How to tell managements what they already know, but want someone else to blame ?

 

[jenku]

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Now..... if somebody would like to take on a boatyard (with attached marina) available in Greece, then pm me and I will consider letting you in on it! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Oh, no Greece will become a desert with never a drop of rain and the Med half empty of water...Sweden though....the Baltic will be the new Med. Sailing all year round. What a dream!

 

[jenku]

What about increased cost and scarce availability of seaside property? Does that not apply to the UK as well? Up here every seaside community wants to build nice new condos all near the water and of course they do not want a stinking boatyard as a neighbour.
All the architects draw small docks with sailboats on them in front of the new condos but they never worry where to put all those boats during the winter!

 

[Seagreen]

That's unless the Gulf stream stops working due to the decrease in salinity of the extra rainfall over the atlantic. Would you fancy cruising round the top of Siberia every weekend?

 

[jenku]

Ah yes, I know, but if it stops the Baltic will ice over and the Med will become the Baltic and nobody still would want to sail in chilly, rainy and snowy Greece, so you would loose either way. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Sailing the north east passage would be great after a few years to give the pubs time to establish in the inlets. Cheap property for marinas and boatyards as well (to get back on topic).

 

[JackIron]

I have the dubious pleasure of living virtually within a boatyard, well within 10 feet. Waste disposal costs - nah - just burn everything and kick the unburnt stuff into the sea. Labour? Simply employ labourers with no knowledge of boats and charge them out at £26/hour plus VAT. BUT PEOPLE KEEP COMING BACK I can't believe it. I've seen some shocking practices, but they comtinue and have done so for years.

 

[savageseadog]

I think you will find that many yards are on government land and are on short adverse leases too.

 

[jenku]

Ah so your government does not sell out it's (the people's that is) property to the highest bidder yet? Lucky you...

 

[Blueboatman]

Wheelbarrows full of dosh available to any aging boatyard owner that chucks in the towel and sells for redevelopement..
Or is forced to as environmental issues are applied retrospectively from the perspective of the new executive waterfront developed next door when the neighbourly yards took the money and ran...
I can think of so many places that I used to play as a kid on the waterfront that were marginal small businesses and are now acres of new build homes.
But then modern factory built boats offer instant boating for a number of years,why would anyone want any facilities other than a quick haul out and antifoul job and the endless upgrade of electronics,which can be undertaken by subcontractors afloat?

 

[Pinnacle]

I don't normally associate the Solent with cheap.............

so how expensive is the smallest and cheapest? ......indeed where is it? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif