Are boats really worth so little these days?

[Windy Miller]

YES
View attachment 422564View attachment 422565Dufour 34 of Brittany, love sailing

A mate of mine has just bought a Durfour 48. He lives in Oz and sometimes in NZ and he’s planning to sail it over to the UK!

 

[AVI_8]

She sure looks lovely, pity the poor sod who has to keep on top of all that woodwork!

Oh yes I have memories of sanding varnish when I was a kid, my dad had a yacht, every year he would tow it from Ayr harbour to our farm with a Massey Fergusson, 14 miles, then the winter restoration would start, it was a wooden boat about 30ft, it took a hell of a lot of sanding, painting and varnishing, fibreglass is so much easier, pressure wash, mop and polish job done.

 

[addjunkie]

Oh yes I have memories of sanding varnish when I was a kid, my dad had a yacht, every year he would tow it from Ayr harbour to our farm with a Massey Fergusson, 14 miles, then the winter restoration would start, it was a wooden boat about 30ft, it took a hell of a lot of sanding, painting and varnishing, fibreglass is so much easier, pressure wash, mop and polish job done.

I still have nightmares of wet and dry sanding the bottom usually in March, its makes them faster if the bottoms smooth, even if you have frost bite in your hands and cant ever go sailing.

 

[AVI_8]

I still have nightmares of wet and dry sanding the bottom usually in March, its makes them faster if the bottoms smooth, even if you have frost bite in your hands and cant ever go sailing.

Yeh you and me both then, and sanding all, the yacht varnish on the top and the rails and mast!

 

[Barking Mat]

Boats, nothing but problems, especially if you rent them out.

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/bring-on-september.94017/

 

[AVI_8]

Boats, nothing but problems, especially if you rent them out.

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/bring-on-september.94017/

Must be in your blood though, and you live in a good climate, though you’ve the general public to contend with, hiring a boat to Joe Bloggs, what could possibly go wrong ……..?

 

[Bullet2012]

its makes them faster if the bottoms smooth,

Are we still talking about boats ?

 

[Barking Mat]

Are we still talking about boats ?

Imagine a hairy bottom with osmosis.

 

[addjunkie]

Are we still talking about boats ?

we are, my father had racing yachts, the bottom would be sanded, anti fouled then wet and dry with 600 then 1200, saved us 2 nano seconds every 12 hours of sailing…..fish slime was the next stage……apparently.

Boats, nothing but problems, especially if you rent them out.

Boat reverse parking in the Greek islands is great spectator sport! The amount of charter boats with captain clueless at the helm that get in a tangled mess lying sideways across others anchor lines can be quite amusing, unless its your anchor line.

Imagine a hairy bottom with osmosis.

Not something you hear of so much now since the epoxy type coatings are all the rage. I remember boats been blasted below the water line, to remove the non bonded gel coat where osmosis was suspected, then a tend round them and a dehumidifier to pull the moisture out of the glass. Before been epoxy sealed and smoothed out.

 

[Bullet2012]

Imagine a hairy bottom with osmosis.

Have you been looking at my pictures online again

 

[Bullet2012]

we are, my father had racing yachts, the bottom would be sanded, anti fouled then wet and dry with 600 then 1200, saved us 2 nano seconds every 12 hours of sailing…..fish slime was the next stage……apparently.

And now the current trend to go fast is to foil. Must save hours of sanding and polishing.

 

[addjunkie]

And now the current trend to go fast is to foil. Must save hours of sanding and polishing.

Guess so if you just do the foil!

 

[500e]

A mate of mine has just bought a Durfour 48. He lives in Oz and sometimes in NZ and he’s planning to sail it over to the UK!

Good solid boats
@fizzy
Love the racing exhausts on the PC12
@marlinspike
A nice Riva Aquariva 33′ would suite me but €595,000 (US$630,117) tax included not new price will stick to helicopters

 

[KemppiFrog]

A nice Riva Aquariva 33′ would suite me but €595,000 (US$630,117) tax included not new price will stick to helicopters

Never thought of Helicopters as a cheaper alternative

On coatings: Peter Scott, the naturalist, used to race National 12s and they phsyched out the opposition by apply a 'magic coating' to the hull. Actually, egg whites and probably washed off in seconds.

 

[500e]

3 of us raced a National 18 called Spindrift the first sail boat I went in.
@ KemppiFrog Our first 500HS cost less than that boat by a margin and cruised at over 115 on 18US gall 117 Lb weight of Kero an hour