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.

 

[Little Ricky]

@NBs I've not had Galeon on my radar and will certainly take a look now. Thanks!

Be aware Galeon are not cheap.

 

[Alicatt]

We bought a very cheap 46 year old 7.5m cabin cruiser, did a good bit of work on it and got it ready to cruise, first long weekend and we knew we needed a bigger boat, well I had tried persuading herself that before we bought the first boat, but we learned and we liked the boat. We put her up for sale and went looking for a replacement and my wife fell in love with the layout in the Broom Ocean 37.
We sold the first boat, Casper, after buying the Ocean 37, Hunter, we did better than breaking even on her plus we put a few hundred NM on her and had some great times too.

We looked at a few Brooms and bought one of them. She had done over 3,000 hours, and done a lot more in the last year she is now at about 4000 hrs on the engine hour meters, the log is broken and she had done 8900NM when we bought her, we have done more than 700NM this last year, and with her coming out the water soon I will be fixing the log.

Hunter has a wet room/head in the aft cabin and it is fine to have a shower in, nice teak slatted floor to the drain and sump pump. The one downside is the twin bunks in the cabins but they are comfortable and we sleep well in her.
For a 50 year old boat she is in reasonable condition, but still needs some work done to bring her up to scratch.

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.

19 year old RR Sport with 250k km owned her from new, and yes she now needs a bit more maintenance than before, but she is still a pleasure to drive over long distances and the TDV8 is more economical than my son's V6 Disco 3 of about the same age

 

[Suffolk_Newbie]

Be aware Galeon are not cheap.

That might be why they weren't on my radar