Yay! I've got a new boat!

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After much faffing around I am pleased to announce that I am the proud owner of a Sealine T51.

Not just any old Sealine T51 this one has a very distinguished former owner, none other than Hurricane of this parish.

I'd like to thank Hurricane for letting me have all sorts of useful documents from when he sold it to the person I bought it from. He went to a lot of trouble when he was on holiday so I am very grateful to him.

Huge thanks too to VolvoPaul for checking it over for me and coming on the sea trial with me. If it wasn't for Paul I could have made a very expensive mistake, but that is another story.

So now I just have to work out how to drive the thing (Powerskipper has the dubious pleasure of teaching me this!)

So once again this forum has proved a great source of help. All I need to cap it off is someone from on here to buy my Sealine SC38 which is for sale now.
 
I must say I could be converted to a sealine of this size , a great boat to have. The d12s are just awesome , fully loaded with full tanks and gear, 4 peeps on board she was well past the magic 30 knots and gives a real 7 litres per mile at 21 knots which is great for a big boat with 1350 hp!!! .

The nearly costly mistake purchase..... I will let peter tell that one .
 
volvopaul said:
I must say I could be converted to a sealine of this size , a great boat to have. The d12s are just awesome , fully loaded with full tanks and gear, 4 peeps on board she was well past the magic 30 knots and gives a real 7 litres per mile at 21 knots which is great for a big boat with 1350 hp!!! .

The nearly costly mistake purchase..... I will let peter tell that one .
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...come on, what was it? did someone leave the bung out?! :D
 
Congrats on the new boat. That T51 has got some serious boating pedigree - ask Hurricane to post 'that' photo of the big following sea (it's been on here a few times before).

Wishing you lots of happy times on her.

Cheers
Jimmy
 
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Thanks for your comments.

Here are some photos from the broker's website. I don't have any of my own yet.

The expensive mistake could have been buying a Princess 45 from Princess (a stock boat) that had a major engine problem. By major we are talking £30,000 to fix and out of action for 6 weeks. Volvopaul spotted the problem and one refund of the deposit later I am the owner of a T51 instead.

Did Princess know it had the engine problem? I'll never know for sure.
 
PEJ said:
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Thanks for your comments.

Here are some photos from the broker's website. I don't have any of my own yet.

The expensive mistake could have been buying a Princess 45 from Princess (a stock boat) that had a major engine problem. By major we are talking £30,000 to fix and out of action for 6 weeks. Volvopaul spotted the problem and one refund of the deposit later I am the owner of a T51 instead.

Did Princess know it had the engine problem? I'll never know for sure.
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If it was a stock boat, you'd have been covered for the cost of any repair anyway - especially if the boat was one of their new 'approved' boats. (Although that wouldn't compensate you for a six week outage). But no matter, you've ended up with something bigger and better anyway!

Incidentally, isn't that Hurricane himself at the helm in that third picture?

Cheers
Jimmy
 
PEJ said:
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Thanks for your comments.

Here are some photos from the broker's website. I don't have any of my own yet.

The expensive mistake could have been buying a Princess 45 from Princess (a stock boat) that had a major engine problem. By major we are talking £30,000 to fix and out of action for 6 weeks. Volvopaul spotted the problem and one refund of the deposit later I am the owner of a T51 instead.

Did Princess know it had the engine problem? I'll never know for sure.
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.... is that the marvellous used Princess scheme... interesting.

Your T51 does not have the wrong way radar arch... therefore looks very smart
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
If it was a stock boat, you'd have been covered for the cost of any repair anyway - especially if the boat was one of their new 'approved' boats. (Although that wouldn't compensate you for a six week outage). But no matter, you've ended up with something bigger and better anyway!

Incidentally, isn't that Hurricane himself at the helm in that third picture?

I doubt the insurance would cover the engine repair as the boat would have been sold with the said defective engine. Cover only applies after the sale, if you read the policy I'm not sure you don't have to pay out for consumable items like oil, coolant, filters etc as some claims do not cover betterment, a bit like a some boat insurance policy. Example if one piston failed on a 6 cylinder engine and the other 5 are serviceable the insurer only pays out 1 6th the claim, believe me this is true in jobs I've done, so its not watertight by any means.
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He certainly knows his green lumps does Volvopaul, helped me through a series of issues on a sea trial last year which resulted in a rejection. The subsequent purchase was mechanically in a different league. Always good to have a third party on board who s detached from the emotional side of boat buying.

The T51 looks fantastic.

Cheers

Tetleys
 
Lovely looking boat PEJ , congratulations . I would imagine that you are walking around like a dog with two , er , boats .;)
Looking forward to some more photos .
 
PEJ said:
After much faffing around I am pleased to announce that I am the proud owner of a Sealine T51.

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Now listen ere PEJ
You have had Volvo Paul , Hurricane and powerskipper is gonna teach you how to not bash it up etc
;)
Forum Stalwarts
Now just you stop faffin about and give us lots of piccies and reports
Else I,ll come darn sarf an empty yer drinks cabinet!
Fanatstic, enjoy Her to the full!
 
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