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Originally Posted by HankOnthewater
Funny that, sheer coincidence, the poster above has a boat like this. Maybe Reefmagnet can comment much better than I can.
https://www.boatsonline.com.au/boats...nder-33/264740
In Victoria, in Docklands, not far from the Westgate bridge, but more than your $40k, although there might a bit bit leeway as it has been on the market since June (when I first saw it).
There is also one for sale in Pittwater with DBY, and there was one for sale in Adelaide but just sold.
here is a pic
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Certainly can add my $0.02
They're a great boat as long as you're under 6ft tall as
headroom is a weak point being a flush
deck. Other than that fantastic
liveaboard (wife and I lived through COVID on ours) because they are very roomy for their size and have reasonable sailing characteristics with the only real weakness, imo, being that windward pointing is not real great.
I would caution that the
cheap ones usually have
water damaged interiors because they have opening
portlights in the
hull and they can also leak through the
hull deck joint, especially where the freeing
ports have been routed out during manufacture. Ours had eight big solid
bronze opening
portlights with deadlights, but over the years
water invariably gets in and slowly damages the
interior woodwork which can include structural components like the bulkheads and even
electrical wiring and switching adjacent to the portlights. This can take considerable
work to make good (don't ask me how I know). On the plus side, they have an encapsulated
keel which has been shaped to deflect off most things it grounds against, the hull is purportedly laid with at least a couple of layers of vinylester resin so you shouldn't see any
osmosis in one and the decks are solid glass reinforced with foam encapsulated stringers except for structural areas like the
jib tracks and
anchor winch.
Come to think of it, I probably should have suggested one!