Reality / Price check please...

[BarryD]

Hi - despite my ealier post the owner has been tracked down and we are approaching an agreement on the price. The boat is a 1986 Fairline Sunfury, twin petrol (AQ145B) engines. Oveall condition seems good but the upholstery in the cockpit is worn.

Subject to surveys (hull & engine) and a sea trial - I'm offering £19,500 and pretty close to doing the deal. Can anyone advise me if this is a reasonable price?

And Matt I know this would not buy the booze cupboard on your Lepoard but give me a break (just once!)

Barry D.

 

[Guest]

Didn't one of the mags (MBM\MBY) do a used boat survey on the Seafury last month? Worth checking out with them for their used boat reports if not already done, they give some good pointers as to what to look for. Price seeems reasonable though.

Don't underestimate the cost of new upholstery. Our Mirage was redone in 97 and we've got the bills that show it cost £1,200 and that was four years ago. Always assuming you can find someone to do it in a reasonable time.

Good luck and have (safe) fun

 

[peterg]

Assuming the engines and outdrives are OK (don't forget outdrives can each cost nearly as much as another engine to service) and the hull has no damage then the price looks reasonable although not exactly generous amongst this talk of oncoming recession.

Get a good survey done first and then use this as a lever to get the price down further, if you still want to buy it - if the survey says the outdrives are knackered knock at least a couple of thousand off or walk away!

 

[Guest]

Doesn't seem too bad to me. Not an utter stunning bargain of century, but it is a "liked" boat, so you be able to resale easily-ish.

On no account go to "marine" trimmer to get the things redone, of course, unbolt them and takem inland BUT tellem to use stainless steel staples, I have contact if they can't do them. Expensive thing is the engines as other say, praps you could get an egr to compression test you're unsure? Does it start nicely from cold? If it has weed all around hull then he's desperate, cos this isn't expensive to do.

See, Colin? Somebody buying a boat.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

I sold a twin Volvo diesel Sunfury of a similar vintage a few years back for £26,000 so given that secondhand boat prices dont move an awful lot after a few years, I suppose it sounds about right but, for chrissakes, get the outdrives checked out by a marine engineer because these cost megabucks to repair. Use the results of this and any hull survey (you will do that as well wont you?) to knock the price down if anything untoward shows up.

 

[iangrant]

Barry,
Take two minutes to look at www.boats-for-sale.com type in fairline seafury and about 10 come up for sale from 14000 upwards

Good luck

 

[Guest]

Re: naughty idea

for a few quid you could of course advertise lots of non-existent boats at around 13 grand. Then the price will drop. I did this with a merc in a sunday newspaper before buying, advertising three non-existent cars with rubbish phone numbers, and following week the prices all dumped, tho not sure how utterly legal. They went a teensy bit mad cos the prices were so fab that loads of people called the paper asking for the right number...