Not feeling the love any more ........what to do.

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After nearly 22 years of messing about with boats, I have decided to pack it in. Combination of reasons but just find its more hassle than its worth these days.
So boat will be going on sale shortly. However It has a 2004 Simrad Chartploter system with another screen on the flybridge which is actually a repeater of the main unit downstairs, not a separate actual plotter. It's 2004 so it's all a bit slow. The back light failed in the lower helm (master Unit) last year so I put some led strip lights in. It all works but it looks a bit rubbish to be honest. The display is a bit dim and you can see the individual leds.
So what's the best thing to do?
Sell it as is, because it does actually work- the upper helm unit is perfectly OK. let new owner decide to upgrade or not
Or Replace both units with something like two 9" Simrad Go plotters. Will it help sell the boat?
Or something else.
 
Will the mods drop this thread into the dustbin of advertising?

You could have worded it only around a dim screen the led side , the options for repairs etc .
Kept the sale bit silent .

Just saying re a recent pull about broker age % . I am struggling to differentiate, see the difference.The mods have left us all in limbo on that one ?


On the enthusiasm issue you could move it to a more car / motor journey place ?
Bin the reliance on flying .Which imho is the direction of travel , scuse the pun .

Sof is a expensive bun fight . You can delete France out of your life if you want .
Go straight to Liguria.
P+ O ferry from hull to Rotterdam, a 1/2 way stop off the beaten track say Bavarian alps / Austria if Croatia.

When you retire time is your friend .
Break it up the 1/2 way stop place adds to the hol .
 
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Like selling a house: You put in a new kitchen or bathroom only to hear the buyer state "if only you didn't, we're going to tear it out and get something to the taste of [her].."

Keep the asking price right and offer "seller will invest/fund up to £xx in Nav aids upgrade". If they take it you don't even need to care if they actually ever replace the devices.

When you have a clear picture of why not feeling the love anymore you also know what to look for in a potential replacement: Smaller, lighter, cheaper, newer and then some. Maybe even rent when desired. Expensive up front but has benefits on the other end.
 
ChromeDome said:
When you have a clear picture of why not feeling the love anymore you also know what to look for in a potential replacement: Smaller, lighter, cheaper, newer and then some. Maybe even rent when desired. Expensive up front but has benefits on the other end.
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We have been renting boats in different places for a while now. That is probably the main driver of selling. It's not cheap, but neither is owning a boat unless you are using it a lot of the time.
 
Lightwave395 said:
I guess it might depend on the age of any other Nav instrumentation - any chance of finding a S/H replacement on ebay ?
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I keeping looking. It's a Simrad CA 54 just in case anyone has one lying about in the shed. If one pops up on Ebay at a sensible price I will buy it.
 
kashurst said:
We have been renting boats in different places for a while now. That is probably the main driver of selling. It's not cheap, but neither is owning a boat unless you are using it a lot of the time.
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On my 7th boat, now for 11 years and still can't see anything I'd rather have, in the sum of all things. Also have rented boats in other countries as it 's more feasible to go by car and have a nice boat designed for the area than driving own boat hundreds of miles.
When home I'm on the boat every day, 12 minutes from home, even as a "work-from-home-office". During winter, when on the hard, still go there daily to check and share a couple of good ones with fellow boaters. Suits me well :)
 
Adding a plug and play item isn’t likely to show much ROI. And anyone who walks because one of the plotters is cosmetically challenged probably wasn’t going to buy - at least, not at a sensible price - imho.
 
…if anything, plotters/nav are one of those things most prospective owners might want to change/upgrade to their preference (temptation of the newest tech etc. - or even going with what they know/liked from previous boat)
 
I would agree that whatever you fit will be “wrong” for the new owner, therefore I too would offer to contribute or reduce price and so on.

If you look at Aquaholic, there is a lot of “rip it out and modernise” going on - price it right and put in description, “reduced to accommodate requirement to upgrade nav” or something.
 
kashurst said:
After nearly 22 years of messing about with boats, I have decided to pack it in. Combination of reasons but just find its more hassle than its worth these days.
So boat will be going on sale shortly. However It has a 2004 Simrad Chartploter system with another screen on the flybridge which is actually a repeater of the main unit downstairs, not a separate actual plotter. It's 2004 so it's all a bit slow. The back light failed in the lower helm (master Unit) last year so I put some led strip lights in. It all works but it looks a bit rubbish to be honest. The display is a bit dim and you can see the individual leds.
So what's the best thing to do?
Sell it as is, because it does actually work- the upper helm unit is perfectly OK. let new owner decide to upgrade or not
Or Replace both units with something like two 9" Simrad Go plotters. Will it help sell the boat?
Or something else.
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What exactly is the boat? Its not mentioned anywhere :)

I can more than live with potential direct buying without a broker given our market here right now.

Done it twice before, successfully.
 
This time last year and following the unfortunate debacle with an engine failure I felt the same way.

So I sold my lovely Corvette, and indeed got a decent price for her.

Within 4 months I got itchy feet and then almost 8 months later I took ownership of my now even lovelier Grand Banks.

So a Winter off might help you put things in perspective, and likely a good time to sell before the market crashes.
 
superheat6k said:
This time last year and following the unfortunate debacle with an engine failure I felt the same way.

So I sold my lovely Corvette, and indeed got a decent price for her.

Within 4 months I got itchy feet and then almost 8 months later I took ownership of my now even lovelier Grand Banks.

So a Winter off might help you put things in perspective, and likely a good time to sell before the market crashes.
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Two or three of our club members recently had "enough" , a combination of Covid, mechanical grief and basically life.
One sold his boat after maintenance overwhelmed , bought another boat shortly after and then packed it all in again.
The second sold up after serial outdrive grief and then replaced it about 12 months later, shaft drives this time.
Third, who had the biggest poshest boat on the moorings, sold up, then shortly after bought a mini version of his previous craft.

Doubt any thing was to do with finances just, age, boat and owner, plus the constant battle with a boats determination to collapse back into the bits it was built from. ?
 
kashurst said:
After nearly 22 years of messing about with boats, I have decided to pack it in. Combination of reasons but just find its more hassle than its worth these days.
So boat will be going on sale shortly. However It has a 2004 Simrad Chartploter system with another screen on the flybridge which is actually a repeater of the main unit downstairs, not a separate actual plotter. It's 2004 so it's all a bit slow. The back light failed in the lower helm (master Unit) last year so I put some led strip lights in. It all works but it looks a bit rubbish to be honest. The display is a bit dim and you can see the individual leds.
So what's the best thing to do?
Sell it as is, because it does actually work- the upper helm unit is perfectly OK. let new owner decide to upgrade or not
Or Replace both units with something like two 9" Simrad Go plotters. Will it help sell the boat?
Or something else.
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Can I talk you out of quitting ?
Look at me…nobody has more hassle with boating than me, yet I keep plodding on
 
Bouba said:
Can I talk you out of quitting ?
Look at me…nobody has more hassle with boating than me, yet I keep plodding on
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You haven’t got to sit in U.K. airports with the rest of a certain segment of U.K. society wanting to go to Spain + back .
Cummins , ie no VP woes .
Its hot were you live …..folks need to get in the water , the sea and if means via a boat so be it .

Your boats desirability will never wain in Fr and indeed because it’s fugal on fuel it may be converted , you may start getting folks knocking on the hull ( like I do in Italy for a different set of reasons ) wanting to buy it .
 
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