Saw a cracking Fairline Sunfury with new engines.....

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Saw a cracking Fairline Sunfury today at Upton Marina with twin 140 hp diesel engines. The boat is in mint condition, very clean and well maintained. I am very tempted esp as the engines are only 2 years old.
Anyone familiar with this model? Good boats?
 
Don't know much about them but know someone who has one and it is oft admired by others. Fairline are a fairly safe bet
 
I have a Carrera which is 2ft smaller - i am just about to re-engine rather than upgrade - both the carrera and the sunfury have great space for their size and a cracking hull for coastal and river cruising. The boat sounds as though it could belong to one of the forum users and assuming it is, i have only heard good things about the boat on this and other forums

Will
 
Sunfury an excellent boat, very high quality build and very good seakeeping.

What are the engines though? Some "repower" jobs are better than others, and 140hp is not a normal Volvo output so I'm guessing they're something else?
 
Are they Fords by any chance? Sounds like Lancing Marine engines.

If they are repowers, it lowers the value of the boat.

After all you wouldnt buy a Ford Focus with a Vauxhall engine in it would you?
 
Not sure that repowers lower the value it really depends on the starting base, new engines in excellent working order are surely better than 20 year old engines at the end of their life - or worse!

I think you are right about them being Fords though

Will
 
Not sure what make the engines were, may have been ford. Surely 2 yr old fords are better than 10 to 15 yr old volvos?
 
Probably Ford FSD425TCM 140hp @ 4000rpm, I've got one in my Fairline Weekend.
Good engine,reliable & cheap to run. Only thing is, it is a little noisy, exhaust is
through transom not through the leg. Need to do some more soundproofing this
winter.
Was the boat you looked at called "Bermuda"?, if so it belongs to a Forumite.

Nige'
 
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Are they Fords by any chance? Sounds like Lancing Marine engines.

If they are repowers, it lowers the value of the boat.

After all you wouldnt buy a Ford Focus with a Vauxhall engine in it would you?

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Tosh! Newish diesels whatever they are are better than knackered old petrols.

Is this the boat http://www.fairlineownersclub.com/gallery/album09?

Pete
 
Have had a diesel Weekender- cracking boat, now got a diesel Carrera- the same. Only ever heard good things about the Sunfury. Yes they are dated now, but I firmly believe in the abilities of fairline hulls. I agree with others on here that 2 year old diesels are far better than 20 year old petrols.
 
Totally agree when compared with Petrols, any diesel is better than a petrol.

But an equivalent boat with original Volvo diesels will fetch more, fact.

Ask any broker.

You cannot second guess the way the repowers may have been fitted, perhaps by an amateur and shortcuts may have been taken.

The original Volvo diesels will have been fitted by Fairline, properly.
 
Agree absolutely with that - newish diesels in place of old petrols will increase boat's value not lower it, provided a professional job with appropriate power.
 
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If they are repowers, it lowers the value of the boat.

After all you wouldnt buy a Ford Focus with a Vauxhall engine in it would you?


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Don't think that is true, after all you can only buy a ford with a ford engine, you can buy a boat with just about any make of engine that's available.

I'd much rather ghave a boat with new re engine than a boat with the old originals.
 
"you can buy a boat with just about any make of engine that's available."

Er, no - I would expect a Fairline Sunfury to have Volvos and in a very few cases perhaps Mercruisers.
 
All I was trying to say, is if they are repowers, the value is less than a pukka Volvo diesel equivalent so bargain down accordingly.

If you pay the right price for it and dont expect to get top dollar when you sell it, then you are going into the deal with your eyes open and I am sure that boat will be great.

Appologies if I worded it badly.
 
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....so bargain down accordingly.

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From what starting point? You seem to be comparing the value of this boat with a hypothetical similar example fitted with two-year-old Volvo diesels? Or are you suggesting that ANY repower is automatically worth less than if the boat was presented with (again hypothetical) 20yr old Volvo diesels???? In any case the original engines would have had zero capital value in the boat if still there.

Surely this, as any other prospective boat purchase, needs to be judged on its own merits and survey, I don´t think your generalisations would stack up across the board.
 
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dont expect to get top dollar when you sell it

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Nah, fellow forumite is selling his diesel Sprint, original engine was a Vx petrol, he fitted a Yamaha 165hp diesel, itself not new at point of fitting, and has substantially increased the value of the vessel. That reflects the real world IMHO....
 
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