Thinking about an older Rodman around year 2000

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I was thinking about buying an older Rodman (about a year 2000) as opposed to a newer popular brand fisher for similar price. I am a bit concerned about water ingress into the GRP on an older boat though (and still paying a relatively large amount of money). Has anyone any thoughts or advice on this?
 
You can only be guided by your instincts, and a good look at it out of the water, all grp boats take on water and all surveyors will say it needs the "treatment", look closely for blisters and crazing, if none is present then it is as good as can be expected.
 
Why would you worry about water getting into the GRP? While that sort of thing may have been an issue for some boats in the past, should not be on a 2000 boat. Your surveyor will check anyway. Plenty of other things to look for, particularly engines, electrics/electronics and domestic equipment.
 
The hulls of most Military/Police craft of that size are riddled with osmosis..........then again, the crews haven't bought them :cool:
 
I saw a couple of terrible cases when I was looking for my current boat and it struck me that if the boat was out of the water for some time (drying out) it might be quite easy to hide. As you say I may be unnecessarily concerned. But it is still a large bundle of cash at stake.
 
Find a boat that has wintered ashore all its life, a great many do. Ours does and has done all its life therefore its moisture readings were minimal when it was surveyed last year and that was even from being lifted out the water for the survey and only standing 2 hours prior to a moisture reading having been done, & our Mitchell is similar in age to what you are looking for.
 
A few years ago we went on a Rodman 1250 demonstrator at SIBS.
Think it had a pair of 600hp engines.It went like "£$%& off a shovel at did the most alarming turns flat out without turning a hair.
Have yet to go on anything similar.
An excellent hull and seaboat.
 
Year 2000 old! That's nearly new to some:)
Friend of mine had a Rodman 700 for fishing on the East Coast.They are very robust and as O.G has said they are a great sea boat/hull.
 
Firefly625 said:
Find a boat that has wintered ashore all its life, a great many do. Ours does and has done all its life therefore its moisture readings were minimal when it was surveyed last year and that was even from being lifted out the water for the survey and only standing 2 hours prior to a moisture reading having been done, & our Mitchell is similar in age to what you are looking for.
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That would be ideal but based on most of the advice and responses it sounds like the Rodmans wouldn't be a problem. Thinking about something like a Rodman 800. We live in the south west so looking for something with a good sea keeping hull.
 
Flynnbarr said:
Year 2000 old! That's nearly new to some:)
Friend of mine had a Rodman 700 for fishing on the East Coast.They are very robust and as O.G has said they are a great sea boat/hull.
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You summed it up quite nicely. Everyone seems to be saying similar good things so I guess I am worrying too much!
 
Great boats for what you want it for. I have one and love it to bits :o If you want any info just ask and if I can answer I will. When we bought ours we brought her home from the Hamble to Poole in a F6 S/SW on the nose yes we were down to 9/10 knots at times with water everywhere but not once did we feel uneasy, she just crashed through the seas, brilliant
 
Club member has just bought a Rodman 800 somewhere up Norfolk way with twin 4 cylinder diesels,not sure if Volvos or otherwise paid about £35K for it.
 
Thanks Maverick! Did you have any niggles to look out for? How old was it when you purchased it? We are still on the look out for the one and keep coming back to Rodmans. May not buy until next year so no rush. Would appreciate any suggestions to look out for from your experience.
 
Club member has just bought a Rodman 800 around that age bracket.
At first glance it does appear to be somewhat more solidly constructed than its French counterparts.His only issues came with lack of use, the radar scanner refused to rotate and the flybridge throttle cable did not function.
Looked as though the radar had never been turned and the flybridge having been occupied.
 
Mine is a 2010 model which only had 153 hours on the clock when I bought it end of May last year. She has 2 x Volvo 170 D3's which give 25 knots flat out and cruises comfortably at 18-20 knots depending on tide.

I've had no real problems with the boat other than minor maintenance issues. They appear to me to be solidly built boats. Prior to my purchase the P brackets were replaced as the bronze had gone pink (dezinked?) This was apparently due to them not being bonded correctly which my surveyor agreed with. With that in mind I would suggest whatever you look at get your surveyor to check the bonding. Also if an older boat have an engineer check out the mechanicals. The engineer that accompanied my surveyor was brilliant and although he found nothing untoward watching him check everything through was reassuring + I learnt a lot about the boats system in double quick time so well worth the expense.
 
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