As Mike says the general feeling is that sports cruisers are de rigeur in the Med or cockpit flys, due to the large cockpit for socialising, plus no need for aft cabin.
Apparantly this is also why both Princess and Fairline stopped making aft cabin boats in early nineties.
If this were the case why do I see so many Traders with there aft cabins and effectively raised cockpits, cos thats what the Broom has, a cockpit on the roof of the cabin. We have a Sealine 450 statesman in our fleet and that has an aft cabin.
So in answer to your question its fine for the Med IMHO, and if you find yourself near us give me a call would love to see your boat. Clive
There is also a lovely Broom 450 OS in our Marina "Tobermory" smashing boat.
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As Mike says the general feeling is that sports cruisers are de rigeur in the Med or cockpit flys, due to the large cockpit for socialising, plus no need for aft cabin.
Apparantly this is also why both Princess and Fairline stopped making aft cabin boats in early nineties.
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I suspect it has more to do with build cost. I doubt anyone will pay more for an equivilent sized aft cabin boat (last aft cabin Princess was the 435, and it was cheaper than the aft cockpit 45), but the fitout cost will be higher as cabins the whole length of the boat, not just 3/4.
Just a guess mind... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
yup see your point, however did read somewhere that Princess/Fairline (same parent company) made a decision to only make aft cockpit boats at the end of the 435 and T36 runs, with the exception of the Fairline 43ac which of course did not sell.
I agree with Suncoast - can't for the life of me understand why anyone would say a Broom isn't suitable for the Med (we have an older Broom). I think that they are the best kept secret in boating - good cockpit/flybridge space with the privacy of forward and aft cabins. To get the equivalent accomodation on a flybridge or sport boat you would need something significantly bigger (and more expensive).
Your boat looks really nice - we are regular visitors to Broom as we berth nearby in Brundall and I hope one day to be able to move to a newer model - the 42 is outstanding IMHO!
uh, don't think they are or can be that strategic or long-term. Fact it's hard to make an aft-cabin boat swoopy/sexy and still have decent headroom. The 43AC experiment certainly rapped a ew knuckles with a handful £300k 2-cabin boats being sold.
Main difference between boats in the med : those that work and those that don't. Of those that do work, there is another subset with aircon and genny, but this is a small number.
the brrom looks good with blue hull imho. Tho praps better with more outdoorsih space, but not critical really.
Hi Greg agree space in abundance on the Broom. Now my Crown 37ft loa my F36 more or less 37ft. Broom main cabin huge in comparison, even with an inner helm. Beam on both boats about the same too (3.4m I believe) and yet the aft cabin seems very wide.
Some of this has to do with the hull shape of course Broom being semi has greater water line length etc, but all the same if you explore each vessel you could be forgiven for thinking the Broom was longer.