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 Topic: Age when buying your first brand new boat?Posted: 12 Aug 22 at 7:03am |
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Chris Bowen
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Posted: 12 Aug 22 at 7:09am |
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Bought a new GP14 in about 1990 aged 26ish, but built a Solo from plans about 10 years earlier.
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Rupert
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Posted: 12 Aug 22 at 8:09am |
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Designed and built open canoes, bought a new sit on top kayak for daughter and a new SUP for me, but never a new sailing dinghy.
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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Sam.Spoons
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Posted: 12 Aug 22 at 8:48am |
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I have never bought a brand new boat (or windsurfer when that was all I sailed). I have bought several brand new race sails (dinghy and Raceboard) over the years though.
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Spice 346 "Flat Broke"
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Woodburner
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Posted: 12 Aug 22 at 12:40pm |
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Brand New, RS500, Alto (ex display model) RS100, Farr 3.7, Not one could be regarded as a fully serviceable out of the box consumer item as you would expect from any other sport purchase, they all required some degree of fettling in order to function..
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Rupert
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Posted: 12 Aug 22 at 1:33pm |
They are complex items which individuals like to set up to their specifications. Or, they didn't screw them together quite right. Take your pick - glass half empty, or half full? Think we know the answer to that! |
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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Grumpycat
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Posted: 12 Aug 22 at 1:39pm |
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Never had a new boat , the closest I have got is my current D-zero. Just a year old and in perfect condition. All the dings and scratch’s it on are mine
 .Mrs G had a new boat a decade ago and is thinking about another one. The joys of sailing in a limited development type class .
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Jamie600
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Posted: 12 Aug 22 at 2:36pm |
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Current stats above suggest if you are going to splash out on a new boat, the time to do it is before you have to start feeding the mortgage monster and/or smaller versions of yourself
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RS600 1001
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Grumpycat
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Posted: 12 Aug 22 at 3:04pm |
It’s interesting isn’t it, whether these results represent the sailing world now or 20 years ago , all depends on the age of us on here. Certainly all the people I know that have new boats now are at least 40+ and most of them are 50+ .
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The Q
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Posted: 12 Aug 22 at 3:39pm |
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Never bought a new boat, did design and build my own 16ft mini keel boat though. Currently working on a replacement rudder, due to heavy weed in our area..
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Still sailing in circles
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