Moisture readings high - should we buy??

[jwilson]

Just looked at the specs and it is a foam sandwich hull, so there's no chance that the foam has soaked-up the moisture.

What with this and the surveyor clearly using the wring setting on his moisture meter, you might want to find another surveyor who actually knows what he's looking at.

Even if the foam in a foam sandwich hull is nominally closed-cell, it can still absorb some water if either skin is breached through damage, or not fully sealed fittings.

Re Tramex ranges: if Range 1 gave 40, the correct Range 2 would have been off the scale. Range 2 is much more sensitive than 1 to take into account that whilst wood contains a fair bit of water, GRP shouldn't. Was the range statement a typo ??

 

[windrose]

sound advice....

 

[mcalan]

My advice for what's it's worth use it as a bargaining tool to negotiate the price down. I recently successfully negotiated @ 35k awb down to 17k as the was some movement in the keel. The sale went trough and the repair cost 2k.
What a result !

 

[Deleted member 36384]

My advice for what's it's worth use it as a bargaining tool to negotiate the price down. I recently successfully negotiated @ 35k awb down to 17k as the was some movement in the keel. The sale went trough and the repair cost 2k.
What a result !

It is a result but I wonder if the value at £19 to 20k is more realistic these days for the boat i.e. if you come to sell it, you could not achieve much more than this. Obviously without knowing anything else this is just a guess. In my own case I bought low and notice over the 8 years of ownership that other yachts of the same class have not really sold for much more than I paid.

Anyway, just an observation, but well done.

 

[Triassic]

Just a few observations, obviously as an F27 owner I'm going to be slightly biased on some of them.....

Firstly it's a 25 year old boat, not 15. Secondly £28 is extremely cheap for one of these, I don't think I've seen one change hands for under £35k recently, so it's either very low spec and in need of replacement consumables (sails, rigging, ropes, nets etc....) or there is something very wrong with it. Given how well these things are originally built and the quality materials used my money is on the first unless you can see that half of one of the floats is missing..... The hulls alone in good condition are worth what they are asking. The reason I know this is that my insurance company spent over £20k rebuilding mine a couple of years ago after I had a bit of an accident....

I know the OP has been given some advice on another specialist forum and I would encourage them to listen to that, some of the individuals on there really know these boats well (like they designed and built it....)!

F27's are a big step to take as a first boat, I know this from experience.... Having said that they are extremely easy to sail provided you absolutely keep your eye on the ball and don't drop your guard for a moment. I learnt this the expensive way (see above....) and was extremely lucky to get away with it. Just about any other boat would have been sunk and lost.

The F27 community is fairly well connected, most of us know each other and there is masses of advice readily available, especially in your area. If this boat in in the UK I suspect it would be very easy to find a history for you.

 

[mcalan]

It is a result but I wonder if the value at £19 to 20k is more realistic these days for the boat i.e. if you come to sell it, you could not achieve much more than this. Obviously without knowing anything else this is just a guess. In my own case I bought low and notice over the 8 years of ownership that other yachts of the same class have not really sold for much more than I paid.

Anyway, just an observation, but well done.

The dealer in my marina has just sold a similar same year model for 32k he commented mine was in much better condition and very lightly used and if I wanted to sell he would advertise it at £34.950