Opinions on a Senior 27??

[mitchc]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/REDUCED-SENIO...iewItem&pt=UK_Power_Boats&hash=item4aa23ee0e8

Morning team,
A friends dad has just retired and is looking to get into boats. He's found the above on Ebay,

He's planning to bring it down to the east coast rivers with some possible coastal work....
It looks ok from the pictures (clean interior so possibly means it's been looked after? Yet to see the machinery but fingers crossed...),
Does any one have any opinions? Tried a quick search on the forum, but didn't come up with anything specific!
Any thoughts would be appreciated...seakeeping ability etc.
Thanks,

 

[Chris_d]

Its a shorter version of the Project/Senior/Princess 31/32, so do a search on those for more info. Probably only for sheltered seawork only and old perkins with enfield drives now hard to find bits for. Looks like a nice one though.

 

[PaulGooch]

Although it does look very tidy in the pics, it looks over priced to me. For not much more money (maybe no more) he could buy a Princess 32, much better boat IMO, and will be fitted with Volvo legs, later ones had 280's. Send him here for a look : http://www.boatshop24.co.uk/searchr...=GBP&sortdirection=asc&goSort.x=7&goSort.y=10

It's a river cruiser. It'll be flat out at around 8 knots, tops. Would cruise inland waterways at the few knot speed limits nicely though, without using a lot of fuel. The old Perkins engines should be reliable and cheap/easy to maintain.

Seakeeping abilities won't be anything special, the Princess 32 won't be any different. A very short hop along the coast in the best of conditions would be her safe limit. You wouldn't want to get caught out in any lumpy stuff and if it did look like getting too rough, it'd be a long trip home pushing some tide, with the speed down to 3 or 4 knots. It's also ill-equipped for coastal trips, the onboard electronics are just what you'd expect on a river cruiser.