Hello, laurentct,
The deal with brokers is that they want to make
money for themselves: your desire for a
boat is something most of them will try to manipulate to fit what they have on offer. When we were looking for this boat, we were thrown out of the office by a broker who said there were no boats that met our 23 criteria (yes, a long list). But at least he didn't waste our time. And eventually we found one who understood and actually did try to help us find what we wanted.
So I'm going to offer you some free
advice (you already know it's worth what you pay for it): believe what a broker says to you, after you have verified it from another disinterested source. And have a look at what a CF
member, boatpoker, has given to CF members:
https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...1-a-78671.html
Good luck in your search. Fwiw, we have a 46 ft. boat, with 2 furling headsails, so a lot of windage forward, and do not think the boat needs a bow thruster--instead, we use lines to control what the boat does, and there are many archived threads here on CF about the use of spring lines, for both boats with crew and singlehanders. One would use the CF Custom
Google Search, under the Search menu.
Ann