Scottish Second Hand Boat Show

If there are only 10 for sale, I know almost the sellers! Opal claim 7000 attended last year and I can believe that. You don't get numbers like that to view a dozen or so boats. But the fewer who turn up, the better: I've my eye on a M***y which seems a bit overpriced for the moment.

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If it is the big white one at the end of the sales pontoon (i.e. not the older blue one) I am v jealous - (blue one lovely too of course) but she of the fame of the book looks a bit of a perfect boat to me!

If only I could persuade the wife to sell the flat and move aboard...........

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Afraid not. Further round, same as mine but with two feet on the mast and six inches on the keel, all for supposedly the same displacement (a 333 as opposed to a 33(ii)). Plus a walkthrough to the back.

But we've been together now 11 years - don't know if I can do it. Incidentally, I bought Hot'n'Tot at the Kip show 93 - went down on the Sunday for one last look at a Frans Maas Raider 35 I'd been toying with but had more or less decided not to buy, and she'd just appeared on the other side of the pontoon an hour or two earlier as a late entry.

One of the downsides to these shows is that you can see what you can get for just another £2 or £3k over budget; and again; and again. The Raider was about 5k over what I'd planned to spend: the asking price for my Moody was another 5k on top of that. Rhu Ellen, a 333 and at that time immaculate, was next boat along but I (sort of) knew when to stop.

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I saw her last weekend and went on board - will not be buying her as we still have more use out of our own to get for a while but she is lovely I thought - great interior layout

Do quite like these sort of boats, particulary after watching Hot'n'Tot pass us whilst motoring on a windy day in the east kyle (wind on the nose, downpour approaching - you got home dry we got soaked like we never have before!)

Wiill still dream of Jandara though!

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I also find it dificult to believe there are only 10 boats for sale at Kip.
Can't be much of a show that!!!!!

We will be doing Ardrossan, Largs and Kip tomorrow, Pounding the pontoons and trying to deciede wether we are ready for a transision. So if you see a fender kicker looking similar to my Profile Picture, please stop me and buy me a pint, or just say hello/forums/images/icons/wink.gif.
I'm doing Kip today, Heading there now.

BTW, there are 3 Fishers for sale at Largs, Tried to see on 2 last weekend, the keys were out for a 31 footer, but saw on the Fisher 25, Very impressed, but unfortunatly a bit small for 6'4 me, wife and the dug.

Enjoy.

Alistair.


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I was misled on the web site, because I searched only up to around 2-3 times our budget, and only came across 4 or 5 that actually said they were at Kip, hence my guess of maybe 10 in total.

That wasn't a true sample. I now have their catalogue, and they list loads of boats, but most are over 50 grand so not relevant for us. The same seems to apply to Largs, Troon, Rhu. (I was also only counting sail)

It's a shame, 'cos the trip would have been fun, but not worth a 400 mile round trip if they're not our kind of boats.

Tony S

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