Lily M sold @ £8k - one week into the Dutch auction

[dylanwinter]

I started at £8,250 last week

then last Friday she came down to £8,000.

She was due for another price drop this coming Friday

a bloke from hull called me over the weekend and said he wanted a survey done

so I said I would freeze the sale until he had his surveyor look at the boat

she was hauled out today and given the check-over by the surveyor and the new owner

no probs at all.

here is the film on prepping an old boat to sell

she has a lovely engine - which is why I bought her and why the new owner bought her. He loves the inmast roller reefing. Towards the end of my ownership I came to rather like it - as long as I did not look at the shape of it too it too much. The roller reefing allowed me to get the boat bungee steering very easily

His wife loved the interior. Until now they have been sailing a Hurley 20

At some stage in the future, when I am leaning down an engine hatch, cursing some god forsaken lump of an old engine and the pain in my knees is shooting towards my crutch, I will think lovingly of that three year old Beta that positively purred beneath my feet and started within a second of being asked to fire up.

end of chapter a for KTL - but at least now the bills will stop.

12 more films about the west coast of scotland to post then the cupboard is more or less bare. If each one can earn 2K then I can re-boot the series. If they don't earn 2K each then I will just sail up down the Deben drinking coffee and observing the birds



Dylan

 

[sailorman]

All down the pub then

 

[[70521]]

Well done Dylan.

Who is next in the list to get the Yachting monthly makeover? Looks like the way to sell boats.

 

[Tradewinds]

All down the pub then

That'll be the Bell then

or maybe the Anchor - but that's a bit swish nowadays.

 

[steveeasy]

8 grand, how much did you pay for her?. At this rate your be turning the taps away for the next 12 films.

Steveeasy

 

[NormanB]

Good result.:encouragement:

 

[dylanwinter]

Once I have replaced the stolen outboard, refurbished the trailer and replaced the centre plate bolt on the trailer sailer the remainder will go into an account where I will not touch it until there is enough in there to buy a wheel house boat with a heater for winter sailing in Scotland.

I am always sad when I sell a boat - she was the most reliable seaworthy boat I have ever owned. I will miss that lovely engine

D

 

[Mud]

So, how much does it cost to bribe a surveyor? (Joking)

Congratulations, & good luck on your future endeavours!:encouragement:

 

[Just_sayin']

8 grand, how much did you pay for her?. At this rate your be turning the taps away for the next 12 films.

Steveeasy

£5500.

Is this the end of the tin rattling?

 

[Arcady]

Well done Dylan, I think you got a good price. I must admit I was somewhat sceptical of your decision to sell by Dutch auction, but I'm glad it worked out well. I suspect it works best for good examples of popular marques. I sold an F25 a few years ago for £12k. I rather wish it had been to you!

 

[aquaplane]

Sorry to urinate on your french fries, you need wheel house boat with heater to summer sail in Scotland.

You really need to stop going home. I went home 5 times in 5 months last season, a total of 5 weeks. Loads of time to film scenery and interesting stuff while I was boating, and it's only £80 a trip, I know you go further which is a good reason for doing it less.

Treat it like a job, I'm working at being retired.

 

[KevinT1]

Well done Dylan, good to hear that you got a good price for her!

 

[dylanwinter]

Well done Dylan, I think you got a good price. I must admit I was somewhat sceptical of your decision to sell by Dutch auction, but I'm glad it worked out well. I suspect it works best for good examples of popular marques. I sold an F25 a few years ago for £12k. I rather wish it had been to you!

It was a week of hard work to turn her around. It is the beginning of the season. I bought her in end of season condition with no survey - an unkown rig condition - although I did look at it carefully using good binocs. The engine is what sells an old boat - and this one is a cracker. Some people like in-mast roller reefing some don't. This bloke really likes the safety and convenience of it. There are not many centaurs around with it.

She does not leak a drop from the keels or the sterngland once tightened after running. She could float for a year. There is nothing the buyer could do to the rig that I have not done.

I would have kept her but I had to make the bills stop

D

 

[dylanwinter]

Well done Dylan, good to hear that you got a good price for her!

I think that the dutch auction system can work well provided you can get people to hear about the boat

because there are 30 centaurs on the market the advert on boats and outboards got 50 views before I even put the film up.

the good thing is that the surveyors job was not to find things as bargaining chips in the negotiation - his job was to look at the boat and say it is worth £8K - a centauir with no faults and a good engine is a bloody brilliant boat.

The good thing is that I knew it would go rather than hanging around eating up money for storage

there is another centaur at Kip that has been around for ages priced at £8,500.

Dylan

 

[DennisF]

It was a week of hard work to turn her around. It is the beginning of the season. I bought her in end of season condition with no survey - an unkown rig condition - although I did look at it carefully using good binocs. The engine is what sells an old boat - and this one is a cracker. Some people like in-mast roller reefing some don't. This bloke really likes the safety and convenience of it. There are not many centaurs around with it.

She does not leak a drop from the keels or the sterngland once tightened after running. She could float for a year. There is nothing the buyer could do to the rig that I have not done.

I would have kept her but I had to make the bills stop

D

As I've said before by email, I'm sorry it has come to this. However, I'm glad you've managed to sell for a decent price and can stop the haemorrhage of cash. You are right to think of heating on your next boat - the Eberspacher a friend and I installed on my elderly Berwick has made all the Winter jobs far more palatable this year

 

[prv]

I think that the dutch auction system can work well provided you can get people to hear about the boat

Yep - perfect for a sleb like yer good self

Pete

 

[dylanwinter]

Yep - perfect for a sleb like yer good self

Pete

not my point at all

there are lots of centaurs on the market

30 of them

lots of people search for centaurs every week. So there is a big market

any advert for a centaur will get more hits than an advert for a hanse 352

I have always said that centaurs are easy to buy and easy to sell. I could decide that by the weekend I wanted to own a centaur in east anglia, or in the solent and by the weekend I would own them,

centaurs sell themselves

D

 

[prv]

not my point at all

I was only teasing

No doubt that even in the fluid Centaur market, your additional exposure via your films and YBW will helped people find Lilly M in particular, though. Nothing wrong with that.

Pete

 

[lenten]

well done dylan---best wishes for the future---lenten

 

[jordanbasset]

Excellent Dylan, very pleased for you