Very nice boat to finish here...

[doug748]

You really do not get it. £25k is 2.5 times your guess. My £50k (which includes the purchase price of £10k) was for a boat finished to a high standard for cruising NOT a sailaway. I directed you top the boat for sale at Woodenships to give you an indication of what a well equipped cruising boat looks like - and just the gear would add £10-15k to a "sailaway" boat. £25k would just about cover materials only, mast. rigging, sails, deck gear, winches, pulpit, pushpit, stem head, anchor and chain, electrics, lighting plumbing and finishing the engine installation. In other words enough to get the boat in sailing condition and capable of passing a survey for insurance.

This is what I said on the first page:

"............could, be in the water mid April at an additional cost of maybe 10k. It's a boat to keep for a very long time, any fancy work can be done at leisure."
Because you:

Get a season of pottering
Can deliver to a home port without transport cost
Tease out what you really feel needs to be done
Avoid getting yard bound with trivia
Get the wooden hull quickly in the best place - on the water
- and home port is where you have contacts, facilities and, for some of us, workshops on the doorstep.

You chose to make the usual song and dance about it. The advantages are obvious and commented on in a number of subsequent posts.


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