Salvaged or damaged yachts

[serra_angel2811]

hi,

i'm currently looking to get hold of a yacht that is between 24 and 30 feet in length. Due to restricted funds at the present time i don't have the luxury to buy something complete and want to get hold of a salvaged or damaged yacht which would be a reasonable project to do up.
The problem is that i cannot find any brokers etc that have such damaged items or yachts that would be suitable.

Does anyone know any websites or projects that are currently avaliable anywhere in the UK.

thanks for your response

matt.

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[longjohnsilver]

Just take a look around some of the backwater boatyards, you'll no doubt find plenty of choice, they all seem to have such vessels abandoned or totally neglected.

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[serra_angel2811]

i have had a look around some but not really to any luck at all. I live in Falmouth / Cornwall.

Do you know of anywhere in particular that may have such yachts?

Websites possibly?

matt

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[longjohnsilver]

The botyard at Gweek comes to mind as a possibility, also Boating World at Landrake. Probably more but can't remember the names.

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[Mirelle]

Talk to your local yacht surveyor

When a yacht is damaged to the extent that the cost of repair exceeds the insured value, she is, if normally insured, a constructive total loss and the insurers pay out the insured value and dispose of the remains. Surveyors often do a lot of insurance work, and they will be able to put you in touch with any insurance company that has a damaged vessel for disposal.

Be warned that this may not be a cheap way to buy a boat!

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[tcm]

private ads in some of the magazines is a starting point. You could also place you own advert.

But as others allude, this isn't necesarily a cheap route to a boat, and if someone is running a business/website then they have already carefully evaauted the very maximum they can charge to allow for work/materials, bearing in mind the eventual price once fixed. This isn't a great opportunity if you want a boat rather than some DIY every evening for a year or more. I don't think there is a website with wide selection of busted repairable boats.

I also don't beleive that there is a ready supply of lightly busted boats, as there is with cars, for example, otherwise we'd see plenty of them getting dragged out every bank holiday weekend, and we don't really. It's either smashed/burnt beyond being a boat and a restart is more economical, or its a repairable bit of gouging/crunching/bending which needn't warrant a total loss.

I wd photocopy a load of bits of paper with your number on and leave it on any likely looking boats. Lots and lots of boats are for sale, just that the owner hasn't got round to calling broker and so on. Keep a list of boat names and what you'd pay, so you can quote a figure at which you'll take it away and write them a bank draft for whoever calls. It's obviously a very low figure, half to 2/3rds of whatever the broker wd advertsie a nice example in a magazine. Stay pleasant on the phone, confirm you have ready funds, and will talk again.

imho



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[colvic]

To quote one example there is a one year old Benateau with a hole in the side, some cracks and most of the internal woodwork broken loose from the hull. The insurance co. are asking £35000 and a quote from a yard to do the work was bewteen £20k and £25k. For something like 15% more than that total you can get a brand new one.

All I would say is take care and really check out everything when you come across that bargain.


Phil

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[dk]

I have an undamaged, but unfinished 30ft wood/epoxy fin keel sailing sloop which I am selling for a bargain price as I just do not have the time to finish it. She has a professionally built hull, deck, coachroof, interior joinery in teak. Electrics including breaker panel, 130Ah battery, 25A 3-stage charger, amphour monitor. Plumbing including water tank, pump, sinks, taps, toilet, auto bilge pump and seacocks. Cooker. Clipper instruments. Plastimo compass. Needs engine, rig and deck gear. Send me a private message for further details.


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[sailbadthesinner]

this is not intended as inflammatory but try wales
beaumaris has a few unloved examples knocking about
also try local free pages

or put a wanted in PBO mag
and on the web site here


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[Twister_Ken]

Unloved yachts

Even on an upper-crust river like the Hamble there are yachts mouldering on moorings which look like they haven't seen an ounce of care in years. Once the moss and seagull sh*t are scraped off, the bilges emptied and the mildew killed down below, there might well be sound yachts lurking. Talking to the local boatyards, harbourmasters, etc, might uncover some boats where an offer, any offer, would be welcome.

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[seamanstain]

Hello,

Take Nick and I for example. We had a budget of £700 and got a really good yacht off e-bay. Its about 20' and was in pretty good condition. The guy selling it didn't really know the true value of it and although it was really dirty, within a day we had transformed the inside to something look exceedingly respectable. Luckly he had kept all the wood and furnishings in the warm, and were in absolute pristine condition. If you are after more info, feel free to email me. E-bay is an excellent place to buy yachting stuff, though there is the potential risk that you will buy complete crap, you may find a good one.

Good Luck!

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[Sybarite]

Keep an eye open on the news for the aftermath of a major storm.

The charterer from I got my boat bought several boats "wrecked" in Concarneau (including a Sun Legend 41) after the great Storm of October 87. He got them for next to nothing. His precise words to me were "Fibre glass is like plasticine, you can do anything with it. I'll strip out the interior furniture and fix the hull in no time".

In three weeks he had the Sun Legend in his fleet and you would never have known that it had been damaged.

John



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