Why do we pay over the odds for Fairline/Princess when you could buy..

I think you miss the point, this is about second hand boats.
Popular boats, that keep their prices through subsequent ownership, do not do so because of fancy advertising. They keep thier price by reputation and are sought after by good reason.
 
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this is what I mean
but the dominance of the British Builders in the UK is not justified by this, IMO for sure they are good boats but far away from being the best
I have seen so much better build boats then a Fairline, Princess and Sunseeker not to mention Sealine

they are good and have improved there game over the years, but not the class leading builders someone wants us to beleive that is all I mean

the reputation and price they hold is for a wide variety of factors not the construction side only
 
There's many sides to this coin. In one sense the Seafaircesslines are over priced and trade on their brand name, too much money on fit out and not enough on the hidden engineering and systems. There are some emerging new entrants from europe who have excellent engineering quality and copy cat fit outs (eg Galeon, etc). I've never been a fan of some of the less practical and less cozy italian designs - too flash and not enough useable boat. Boats are for using not looking at.

Personlly I'd take a P35 anyday over that lot, except perhaps the last one. The rest are like design mishaps, and hardly easy to sell in UK market so they'd want to cost a heck of a lot less. You get what you pay for - most of the time hopefully
 
I think you cannot compare the Princess 35 to these except as lastly you say the last one...
I would compare the Princess 35 to a Ferretti 36 New, cause even that Mochi is an older model or a Possilipo 38 Technema or an Azimut AZ 35,
as for the hidden engineering I dont know where this is located on seafaircesslines as I never found any, I think as for enginerring and construction any of these Italian brands just make so much a better boat
may be seeing is beleiving and as you are used to seeing seafaiscessker

I think if the famous British Builders where happy so much with there lines they could have stayed away in copying the Italians in the following....

Tunnel Props - invented by Italcraft in the 1970s as was the first a semi surface drive system in the time
extended flybridge - in the 60s
extended integrated by Ferretti in 1985/6 - on the 49 Altura
tender garage - Italcraft C 51 Classic in 1985/6
Hard Top - Tecnomarine 58 Cobra HT later RIva 60 Black Corsair
Glued Windows for fly - Azimut 43 and 65 Pininfarina 1992

apart from the following technical innovation I can point the a whole revolution in the interior design also
Azimut used cherry wood in its interiors from 1986 for the AZ 35, that is about 8 years before the British starting offering the same on there boats
in 2004 Azimut but also Ferretti went on with light colored Oak and Teak and now its all over for the main stream builders just look at the new Fairlines

I firmly think that most of today boats sold and advertised are all inherent to Italian design, in fact thats what they say on there brochure TOO

still I said for a Princess 35 the boats given example where not correct so I tryed to guide on the right boats,
you cannot compare the Tecnomarine 42 C an open boat, timeless classic for this style of boat with a flybridge as your boating and confort on board are on another level
 
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