The right boat for me

[Suffolk_Newbie]

I totally agree with Greg’s view on older boats, and his parallel view on engine hours. My current boat is 26 years old with 1300 hours. In excellent overall shape.

@Sticky Fingers that's great to hear. I suppose I'm stuck in the 'car' mindset and the idea of a 'classic boat' as well as it being my first owned boat scares me. However, it sounds like a 20 years + boat, well looked after and well built in the first place, has just been run in

 

[Sticky Fingers]

That’s a fair point. Car analogy is fair enough too, I’ve got an almost new EV, a 10-year-old Land Rover Discovery approaching 170,000 miles, and a 12-year-old Porsche with only 40,000 miles . The EV obviously has loads of cool tech, but I much prefer the older analogue cars. The high mileage Discovery was a cheap buy, but it’s costing money to keep it running in great shape.