The Tale of Two Large Petrol Sportsboats...

Nautorius

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Twin petrols have always been sticky boats to sell. The irony seems to be the smaller the boat, the smaller the twin petrols and the better they hold their value.

Firstly we have a 1990 Sunseeker Tomahawk. Great boat (if not that practical) but a real day boat/overnighter for a couple or younG family. This one has had a new Interior and looks very clean.....yours from only £15k HERE . It may be thirsty but with £40k spent it looks like a lot of fun.

Or buy a Nordic twin Petrol Scand, twin petrols, scandanavian design and quality, smaller craft but same fun! However this one seems to be holding it's asking price better...your for only £27,500 Here


Both are these boats are quality, both are great boats and both have a lot more life in them. I hope they find good homes...or at least someone with deep pockets. What is interesting is that the Scandanavian smaller boat is up for more than the larger Sunseeker!

But my favourite bargain boat around is another British Brand, The classic Hunton Gazelle 35. Another Racing thouroughbred but this one is a diesel. 1988, looks clean, twin diesels all for £19,950 Here

It may be tight in some areas of the economy but for three boat buyers they could get a lot of boat for the price of a new 18ft speedboat.

Cheers

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Good stuff, lots of boat for those prices. I think I'd go for the s'seeker and do some more refurb

The hunton has 2 different engines. A merc and a detroit. Never seen that before on this type of boat. I wonder how well they work together? Unless they have perfectly matched power curves it's going to be a bit strange. I guess you just twiddle the throttles till the rpms match!

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Well spotted. So I guess neither is the original engine because they both apparently have only 60 hours each. That means somebody consciously took the decision to buy 2 different engines rather than being forced to replace an original with a different make. Saving money, I guess. As you say, interesting to see how it drives particularly as the Detroit might be a 2 stroke engine (the diesels are 2 stroke). IMHO, £20k is very ambitious for such an oddball. £10k plus fit a couple of recon diesels might make a good boat
 
The Scand is a nice boat but the price is ridiculous. You could get a 5yr old petrol powered 28ft sportsboat for that kind of money. I don't think it's true that the Scand holds it's money better, just that the seller is living in la la land
 
As much as a Hunton is from a fine stable that boat has not aged well, all that anodised aluminium windscreenage does not look so good today.

I suppose that really it only needs one engine...to match either of the odd pair, get some money back on the left over.

I suspect generally these boats are getting scruffy and begs the question, what will happen to all the scruffy old out of fashion plastic boats in years to come?

Of course wood boats will be looked after by mugs like me!
 
I don't know. Agree that the vast majority of bubble boats are going to look awful tired and unwanted in a few years time but IMHO, the Hunton has a classic look about it and a bit of a racing pedigree so for anyone fed up with or too frightened to maintain a Fairey or similar, it could be interesting. I still think that, re-engined with 2 diesels, it could get a buyer at around £30k. I'd look at it
 
Just for information:

The owner of the Hunton is both right and wrong .... The Starboard engine is a VM diesel .... and they were aquired by Detroit .... hence the reference to Detroit... The Port obviously a Mercruiser..

The VM block is also used by Mercruiser.... so what you probably are looking at onboard the Hunton are two engines with same block and power curves, but with different marinising kits...

A Detroit, two stroke, straight six would probably not be suitable for the Hunton as;

1) at 1.5 T would make the boat somwhat un-balanced
2) make the Mercruiser look like a generator
3) Rip the sterndrive to pieces....

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The Hunton could be a good buy .... negotiate a deal as the engines "look" different, get some black paint and you will have to engines which look similar and last a lifetime... the marinising kit is immaterial as long as the cooling system works properly...
 
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