What ages a yacht?

[doris]

Racing, in my experience, is the hardest thing to put a yacht through.

The 2 boats that I have owned that had been heavily raced were the most reliable boats ever. Anything that had been needed to be sorted was always sorted professionally.

The only pure cruiser, with a very pround and attentive owner, was a nightmare. So full of DIY jobs that I was still fixing things 4 years later by which time I thought I had replaced everything, but there was always a little something extra.

Give me a well sorted ex racer every time.

 

[DougH]

I bow to the wisdom of youth . . . Where's the Ironic icon?


At 38 years young SR scrubs up well, but I will admit that I ain't up tpo scrubbing her as much as I used to after around 15 years of ownership.

Love it, I was well topped there.

 

[PeterGibbs]

I don't think "lack of use" refers to the time before a boat is first used. It's the time after enthusiasm wanes, or life intervenes, so that the boat is sitting there not being used. Lots of them at the back of my yard, and very sad they look too.

Pete

Lack of care rather than lack of use, I think:

that smell - a combination of sulphurous egg from the space under the heads and cooking fat on the headlinings:

the dead running rigging - left out all season long for years:

the greasy swill under the engine sump, and the odour of escaped diesel:

the upholstry that long ago lost any resistance to being sat on and promises a rotten night's sleep:

heavily patched A/F, relic of numerous seasons of half day lashups before launching:

deep nicks in the bow resulting from lax mooring, a victim of the rush to the pub:

the deeply pitted winch drums, left to the elements all year long and stiff to turn with some teeth missing the pawl:

the sails, grey crumpled, long ago having lost any resin stiffness:

all this topped off with my favourite - the DIY storage space carved through the bulkheads with a B & D fretsaw....

The terrible truth is out there..... and you know it!

PWG

 

[nimbusgb]

A yacht in the med, Greece in particular, should be worth less in my opinion.
Because......

Stern too mooring, with anchor, is causing huge stress loads on the yacht.
Imagine it this way, two giant hands are pulling the boat from either end when moored stern too causing a stretching effect over time, and fatigue over its lifetime.
And if your anchor and lines ant tight, that's another problem.

Thats a laugh! The thought of even a couple of hundred kilos of pull at the ends 'stretching' a 35 or more foot long boat is ridiculous! The pull on the shrouds is probably in the region of tonnes when the winds blowing and although it does bend a boat over time the mooring pull is nothing like this type of load.

So all in all,, I personally would think that yachts in this region have had as much of a stressful life as a yacht that might have been doing some racing.

I saw it first hand, and any of my fellow yachties in the med, would agree......

No they wouldn't!

Oh, and not to mention the carnage there when people are trying to dock stern too.
Each week, i played witness to damage caused by stern too mooring. Some people cant grasp it and this is causing a lot of bangs and nicks to the yachts,and when its time to sell, these are all covered over.
Probably not the awnser you were looking for but once worth considering none the less....

Perhaps true