Survey Results - impartial opinions wanted...

[danielbroad]

The two (one is duplicate) on boats-for-sale are the 2 i've been looking at, one is isle of wight the other Scotland.

There is one other vastly over priced in Northern Ireland.

If only i was trying to buy a Fairline Corniche i'd have loads to look at.....

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[gonfishing]

Proverbial Hot Brick

Drop it,unless current owner will give you 20k to take it of his hands!!!


Julian

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[hlb]

Dont think you should be buying a boat because of the size of the bed. My 89 Princess is rock solid, dont expect anything less.

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Haydn

 

[EME]

Tom

Read this survey report again...

My words :-

-You need to get the interior out to see what the real problem is
- We foundsome stuff (cracks and crazing) we didn't like, but couldn't get at it.

£80 k --- has no boat himself ( understand your position, on an existing boat you love)...

No , for me , wait for another or get something else. Now do I sound like myself ??

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[danielbroad]

I think you guys have confirmed what i really knew already, its a lemon.

I'll have to keep my eyes open though the winter to see if anything else comes up - maybe we need to go back to a sportscruiser or spend more money.

Thanks all.

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[mainshiptom]

some times only when a third party will come on board and say "well let me think( a builders estimate) " the penny will drop say 20k to put right and not sure what else might turn up?

I would walk away as well unless i thought I was really getting a bargain?

Tom

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[Wiggo]

It's a lemon allright. If a mint one is £65k, this might be worth 40 if you were a gambler...

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[oldgit]

All been there(several times)

It can be very difficult to walk away from a boat and even if the angel Gabriel came down from heaven and said" verily this is a pile of poo,leave it chum" it will be hard to say no and walk on.
Ever boater here will have been and stood along side some boat or other blind to all its faults and desperate to sign that deposit form,but on returning home be amazed to discover that there are actually other boats out there and thanking his lucky stars that he did not end up buying a pile of s.........../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif.
Ps It will not get any better with the next boat or the one after that.

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[Andrew_Fanner]

Re: All been there(several times)

Makes you wonder (and worry) what has happened to the boat to get it like that. Abuse of some form, suggesting there may be other issues that have not yet been mentioned.

Walk must be the answer.

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[Jim44]

If you can stretch to £79k have a look at this TS37 SuperSport

http://www.yachtservice.co.uk/details.asp?Mode=View&ID=248

Think it has been For-Sale for a while so they might take an offer, I just found this on the web so have no idea what condition it is really in.



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[Renegade_Master]

"The osmosis doesn't really bother me " .....well it should, theres a President 46 on the hard at our Marina, having had the hull stripped back due to osmosis, it has been there "drying" I imagine for over 6 months, Now I know how much the yard charges for storage alone.................Have you looked at the TS37 Birchwood, has fine aft cabin plenty of space, the school boat I learnt on was a TS37.

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[jimage]

I`ve seen cracked gel in 6 month old boats of very reputable names. It is because grp flexes, however thick the laminate. When the builders bond in huge lumps of wood or aluminium for engine bearers etc these don`t flex, therefor cracks appear between these structures. Many modern boats overcome this by using a more flexable gel coat and suspended bearers ( most modern boats are foam sandwich construction. All is not lost! get another hull survey from a real grp expert, not just someone general in boat surveys.

If I listened to our surveyor, I would have never bought the boat we have now. But I new better. Result : dream boat, bargain price!! good luck

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[Col]

Have you actually sea trialled one of these?
I drove one with 220 Mercs / Bravo2 set up. Couldn't believe how slow it was!!
OK, It may be that it had problems, but it felt so "lardy"

If you haven't already done so, drive one and see if this is a traite, or whether this was a one off slow model.

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[danielbroad]

I did have a sea trial on this boat for over an hour - it handled beautifully and shot up onto the plane. Really stable at speed too.

The TS37 would be a jump up in solent mooring fee's and only the very last ones seem to have big enough engines to get up to a decent speed, and even then they are never going to cruise at 25. Its a thought though....

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[Deleted User YDKXO]

I was thinking about buying a TS37 once until I sea trialled it. Very slow and very wet. Ended up buying a Turbo 36 which is a much better boat IMHO

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[TwoStroke]

Walk away. Put yourself in a position a few years down the line when YOU come to sell her. Ok, you've had all the work done. Now how do feel a potential buyer will feel when they ask about any work carried out. They will run a mile. YOU are going to have problems selling her. Walk away now.

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[danielbroad]

I'm walking away.

I think we're going to take a closer look at the Fairline Corniche - we only saw shaft variants before and the water in the bottom / engine access maybe prejudiced us more than it should have.

I think one with 2xAD41 Duo Props and the big master cabin might well be fine, I would hope from Fairline they are strongly built also.

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[miket]

In my opinion best layout for 2 with island bed forward and downstairs galley. Unfortunately, also the rarest version I believe! Even fewer with outdrives!!! Outdrives were mainly the petrol engined ones.

Good luck.
Don't be tempted by VP 165 hp. OK lightly loaded but fully loaded and with some growth underneath struggle to exceed 16/17 kts.

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[danielbroad]

I understand the dinette makes the guest bed in the master cabin layout - how is that for size - it doesn't look very long from the pictures?

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[capsco]

Your feet go into a letterbox [behind backrest cushion]

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