Lot of Boat ? DALVINA / Berthon.

[Time Out]

Always liked this old tub.....

http://www.berthon.co.uk/yacht-sales-brokerage/used-yachts-for-sale/vessel/225981/

 

[Medskipper]

Beautiful, hardly an old tub?

 

[Time Out]

Beautiful, hardly an old tub?

I call all large boats old tubs, I probably shouldn't given where I work.....

 

[Whitelighter]

Been for sale for over 2 years with berthon. Started at 1.2m
Wonder what will buy her?

 

[Time Out]

Been for sale for over 2 years with berthon. Started at 1.2m
Wonder what will buy her?

Try an offer gonna need at least 250k spending on her I reckon..

 

[z1ppy]

Believe it has a full time skipper and until recently has been well used by its owner and wanted for nothing maintanince wise.

Lovely old boat but for me not what I would spend that sort of money on if looking for something similar.

 

[Time Out]

Believe it has a full time skipper and until recently has been well used by its owner and wanted for nothing maintanince wise.

Lovely old boat but for me not what I would spend that sort of money on if looking for something similar.

You would get a VERY large RIB for 600k......

 

[Hurricane]

Yep a friend knows the skipper.
She has been well maintained and loved by her owner.
I believe that Dalvina is the private yacht of Lord Iliffe who owns MDL Marinas - so she may have a closer tie to us that some may realise.

 

[Time Out]

Yep a friend knows the skipper.
She has been well maintained and loved by her owner.
I believe that Dalvina is the private yacht of Lord Iliffe who owns MDL Marinas - so she may have a closer tie to us that some may realise.

So it would seem most of you paid for it over the years...

 

[BruceK]

:disgust: That's one way to turn the tide of opinion!

 

[Firefly625]

Yep a friend knows the skipper.
She has been well maintained and loved by her owner.
I believe that Dalvina is the private yacht of Lord Iliffe who owns MDL Marinas - so she may have a closer tie to us that some may realise.

she is indeed owned by Lord Iliffe ,

 

[MapisM]

If it's a LOT of boat you're after, you could consider this one as well.
Double the size and half the price, what's not to like....?

 

[CLB]

If it's a LOT of boat you're after, you could consider this one as well.
Double the size and half the price, what's not to like....?

I am no expert on these things, but that looks like an even bigger money pit than the boat in the OP.

 

[Bouba]

I lost count, how many bedrooms?

 

[Hurricane]

Here's a video of Dalvina
I couldn't see it in the OPs link
I found the video really interesting.
Lot of boat for the money - but how much would she cost to keep.

 

[Time Out]

That's one hell of a video .... credit to the broker but cut it by 10 mins ...

A very decent boat for the money.

 

[burgundyben]

I saw the engines start from cold in summer 2015...I would think either there is something wrong, looks like a repower project to me. No one would put up with the smoke now.

 

[ashtead]

Maybe they do at MDL ?

 

[bedouin]

Difficult boat to sell. Must cost a lot of money to run - £35 per mile cruising for a start so a return trip to Cherbourg looks like over £3000 - then there is the mooring cost etc.

Once you are paying that much the initial purchase price is only a minor consideration. There can't be many people who can afford those running costs who would prefer that to a more modern GRP boat.

I like her but she is just too big

 

[petem]

What would it cost to build her from scratch today? £3m perhaps? If you could buy her for £0.5m and spend a million a refurb you'd effectively have a new boat at half the price. All depends on whether is as sound as the broke maintains and of course whether the engines are still good.