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I am in process of buying an s28 and a few people have put me off a bit by saying once youve got a sealine your stuck with the brand really. Has anyone sold theres thru non sealine broker or privatly. I dont want to be snookered when I come to want to change in a few years time.
 
I was told this extensively by BA Peters sales staff who now errr... sell Sealine. Didn't endear me to them, and didn't stop me buying (and subsequently selling) a Sealine.

Rick
 
It's true that many stick with the brand: not heard of many that are stuck: the Princess dealers are often good sources of used Sealines which says something...

dv.
 
No, thats not true. Sealines are just as resaleable as any other brand providing they're priced at the market value. I've bought and sold 3 Sealines in my time and in each case got back pretty much what I paid but then they were all used boats. This applies to all boats though; if you want to minimize depreciation, buy used rather than new
What Sealine are good at and this is maybe where the comment about getting stuck with Sealines comes from, is making it easy to move up the range. A newbie buys a 22 footer. He buys new because he does'nt know any better. After a season or 2 he wants a bigger boat but he gets a shock when he sees how much his boat is worth on the secondhand market and how much money he's lost. So, he goes to Sealine and, deep joy, they offer to p/x the boat against a new bigger boat and give him nearly what he paid for the 22 footer BUT he pays full list price for the new boat. And so it goes on up the range with the dealer using some of his margin on the new boat to subsidize the value of the p/x just like the car trade. The problem comes after a few years when our newbie owner has a Sealine 42/5 and fancies a Princess. Then he finally has to take the depreciation hit of all those changes of boat. This is not a criticism of Sealine; they just seem to make it easier to move up through their range
 
I think Deleted User is spot on.
I regret there is not and never will be any such thing as a free lunch. Sooner or later you pay.
 
I'm on my third Sealine (all previous traded in with Sealine) and I don't feel stuck. When I look at the 'for sale' ads in MBY, even allowing for haggling, the value seems to be holding up. They are excellent boats, the previous sales staff were excellent and the direct link from sales to factory led to quick resolution of problems....let's see with Peter's now!
Now that I've had more experience with boats and through what I've learned from this forum I would probably look around more for my next boat, but for me with limited experience the Sealine route is a relatively risk free one.
happy hunting
David
 
Thanks for the replies, gives me a bit more confidence.
A broker selling both said we never get someone saying "we dont want a fairline, but we do have a percentage say no we dont want a sealine"
I guess theres a bit of snobbery going on etc but for me at this stage the fairlines are 12k more. I suppose you pays your money and takes your choice.
 
Seen lots of Sealines sold/snapped up in a marina on the River severn, no one thinks about the snob value, only interested in that they look and are good boats with very good after sales support. I have just bought my fifth boat a Sealine and love it to bits and I know I could sell it easily again. Great boats.
 
S28 with KAD32s are an excellent boat and should shift fairly quickly if in good nick and reasonable price.
We had one in 2002/2003. OK, we traded for another Sealine and they sold her on very quickly indeed.
 
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I guess there's a bit of snobbery going on etc but for me at this stage the fairlines are 12k more. I suppose you pays your money and takes your choice.

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Not so (your implication that Fairline was better and command a higher price). Last year at the Boat Show I checked out the Sealine prices against Princess and Fairline (at my level of boat) and the most expensive were Sealine. All very equal in my book, depends on your type of boating. Fairline are slimmer and faster, Sealine beamier and in consequence up to 5 knots slower.
 
It may be that the Sealine comes complete with all the knobs and whistles,where as if you add all this missing stuff(steering wheel,propellors etc) on the Fairline it would add to the cost of the bottom line considerably.Bit like some of the German cars where std spec is a bit spartan to say the least.
 
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