Posted by GregSeaHawk on
URL: https://forum.seahawk17.org.uk/Mike-Pearl-tp4024628p4024637.html

Hi Mike,

Perry makes good suggestions. Also keep an eye on all the local brokers' sites. A search using the terms:

"norfolk broads" yacht brokers

seems to find most.

I do accept that neither of the local SeaHawks on the For Sale page, appear to be "top-notch" examples.

The bad news is that very few SeaHawks are sold in such a condition. As a relative cheap craft people don't seem to worry about them. They leave them rotting on their moorings for a season or two until they wake up to the fact that they are not using their boat and only then decide to sell. By then they have little enthusiasm to pretty them for sale or finish off that customisation they are half way through installing. Those that are in such condition sell very quickly and are easily missed.

Another reality is that boat owners have a passion for customising like no car owner I know. The trouble with that is that one man's brilliant addition, is another's "Why on earth did he fit that like that or even at all"?

Read the posts on this forum and you'll find almost every new owner has plans to remove fittings, refit things, or add bits, before they actually start sailing. Even if the boat you buy is, at first glance, in "ready to sail", the reality is that the same is likely to apply to you. And that means that you might as well consider a slightly untidy boat, and clean her up as part of "making her your own".