Limbo 9.9? any good?

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i am looking to upgrade from my good little boat, an intro 22. It serves me well but i want more headroom now and an inboard. would be good to bring a friend and my mum sailing too who are too nervous on a small boat. someone at the club has a Limbo 9.9 called Thundachild for sail. not sure how much its up for sale or is worth. but are they good boats?

thanks
 
I don't think they're a bad boat at all. But they're always compared to the Superseal / Parkers which seem to have the edge in having the centreboard arrangement a bit better sorted.
 
UK-WOOZY said:
i am looking to upgrade from my good little boat, an intro 22. It serves me well but i want more headroom now and an inboard. would be good to bring a friend and my mum sailing too who are too nervous on a small boat. someone at the club has a Limbo 9.9 called Thundachild for sail. not sure how much its up for sale or is worth. but are they good boats?

thanks
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The clue is in the boat type and the present owners choice of name.

Not sure quite how your nervous mum might react.
 
well, my intro is tippy with a low boom. cant be worse

the limbo is the only boat available at the club. if i got another elsewhere id need a trailer made up and get the boat back. but im after a 28-32foot, needs to be quick like my intro but also with headroom and a decent layout inside. looking at around £5,000 - £13000 (with the help of my mum but the cheaper the better, i have f all savings myself )
 
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Keep the Intro - fantastic wee boat. I had one for many years and won lots. I moved to a quarter tonner and loved that - much cruisier than the Intro but still fantastic to sail.
 
You could do a lot worse than an older quarter tonner. Mine was an Ecume De Mer but the Trapper 300 or Egythene are great boats too. The Bolero is good but tends to be outboard. Impala?
 
i am not into racing, but dont want a slow boat. also do not want a boat with an outboard again. its a PITA and costly with fuel!

theres a trapper 400 for sale at our club but its very tired/dated and needs a lot of work. i want a bigger boat (28foot +)with standing headroom and inboard and already have a fairly recent equipment
 
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If St Lawrence bay on the river Blackwater is not too far there is a tidy Tomahawk for sale complete with launching trailer & deep water mooring ( currently £ 120-00 per annum) available. Owner wanted more but would probably accept £5K if pushed. PM me for more info
 
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16K looks quite a lot for a 27ft to me. was thinking 16k more for 30ft or so
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To know if it's good value, you have to work out the full cost of getting each to be 'usable' for your needs and then think about the resale value when you come to sell it.

If you like the idea of a lift keel boat, then including the Superseal / Parkers will radically improve the numbers of boats to choose from. Many are really tidy boats with good sails and kit. Some that come with everything including on a really well made trailer are snips compared to spending the same money on larger boats that are shagged.

Added: I've just had a look at the one in that advert. The Parker 27 is the most desirable incarnation of the Superseal, and it's obviously had a lot of money spent on it in the last 2 years. I should think something like 50% of its asking price.
 
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i have spent at least £3000 on my intro 22 upgrading all the electronics and engine and i know i wont get that money back, so whatever someones spent on a yacht they are selling is irrelevant. anyway i looked at other parker 27 photos, the cockpit is too cramped looking.

also a fixed keel is fine, i dont need or am on the lookout for a lifting keel.
 
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A friend of mine had a Limbo 9.9 from new and we extensively sailed the boat, and he sailed literally thousands of miles club racing. At the time I was also sailing Sigma 36's and the comparison was that the Limbo was like an enormous Laser dinghy - light fast and very manoeuvrable, but also good in heavy weather.

I understand he ended up locking his keel down and he stripped her bare for racing. He sold her on a few years ago, but I expect she was exhausted.
 
UK-Woozy,

I'd say you need to find out the ballast ratio, and the keel lifting arrangement.

I only have the brochure for their first offering, the Limbo 6.6

The 6.6 was designed by Andrew Stewart and I'm pretty sure the 9.9 was too, they were made by Zygal Boats at Whitstable.

I always had the impression both were on the ' lightweight, takes a bit of handling and maybe tender in a blow ' side of the spectrum, but I've only sailed with 6.6's and occasionally looked at 9.9's to reach that conclusion.

If it's the original inboard, do consider the likelihood and cost of a new engine.
 
I haven't sailed one but there is a nice shiny striped blue one moored towards the top of Portsmouth harbour.

It looks pretty slippery and racy: the ideal successor to a nice but little pocket rocket like yours. Just remember that the costs of a 32' boat aren't twice that of a 17' boat, they'll be about four times...
 
I have a Limbo 9.9, Laidback.
We use it for club racing, coastal races around Cornwall and family trips to the Isles of Scilly. ( The family is 6 big).
The lifting keel is ideal for the islands as well as our drying harbour in Penzance.
She is an excellent downwind boat , and goes into the breeze well also though not pointing quite as high as say the Deltas in our fleet as we do not have inboard sheeting.
Feel free to pm me for pics/details etc
 
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