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Alistair426 
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 Topic: Dinghy Show Guide cover picPosted: 13 Jan 09 at 10:04pm |
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Not many other 32yr-old boats would look as good as 'Monarch'! Nice to see the old girl still hitting the 30knot mark.
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Rupert
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Posted: 13 Jan 09 at 10:36pm |
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I have to agree I'd have thought with a wealth of pics to choose from, Y&Y could have come up with better ones.
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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MrGin
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Posted: 14 Jan 09 at 9:21am |
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Why spend lots of money on over priced production boats when you can sail a 30 year old Alb and still hit 20+ knots for a fraction of the cost. MrGin Edited by MrGin |
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Phil A8152 "Albaholic"
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Merlinboy
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Posted: 14 Jan 09 at 9:30am |
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Becase a 30 year old woof albacore is still more money then most of these "over priced production boats" |
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MrGin
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Posted: 14 Jan 09 at 9:44am |
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A 30year old A1 woof 5 years ago would go for between £3 to £6k, today the same boat will go for £3k to £6k and in five years time it will be probably worth the same unlike most manufacture based boats. MrGin |
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Phil A8152 "Albaholic"
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Merlinboy
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Posted: 14 Jan 09 at 10:02am |
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Thats because its a supply and demand thing. The difference is you can get a nearly new 200 for £6k, use it for a year or two and sell it for nearly what you paid. Without the maintance spend of a (Gorgous by the way) Albacore and have massive fleet racing round the country, and you can travel faster! I'm not to sure how many Woof owners at my club would take £6k for their pride and joy, being they spend hundreads each year maintaining them, and the cost of a wooden replacement "if" you could now get one built!
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MrGin
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Posted: 14 Jan 09 at 10:12am |
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This is true with respect to some of the older woodies but the 2nd hand plastic boats hold there price very well and stay competative, unlike some of the manufactured and traditional classes. Also the new epoxy ovington / speed boats are very resonable and very well built.
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Phil A8152 "Albaholic"
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Scooby_simon
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Posted: 14 Jan 09 at 11:27am |
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No cats.
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Merlinboy
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Posted: 14 Jan 09 at 1:14pm |
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Not sure i agree there, although i have not seen the Ovi Albacore yet. The Speed boat was not great, and they don't have a competitive life like the RS boats for example. They do take on weight and go floppier, they also don't have the same depreciation curve as the wooden boats because of this. There seems to be more speed boats on the used market lately at relatively "cheap" prices, there deprecation curve is greater then the 200's! Wooden ones are a different kettle of fish, the last wooden Albacore built is at our sailing club and was commissioned by its current owner, and he wont tell anyone how much it cost to build!! I would very much expect its more then 2.5 times the cost of a new RS200 for example.
I have heard that the new Epoxy Speed/Ovi boat is a proper peace of kit, well put together and is already proving to be fast. Lets see what it does to the prices of the earlier speed boats in a few years?
Anyway sorry to hijack the thread guys. |
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Peter Barton
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Posted: 14 Jan 09 at 2:34pm |
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I like the V3000 pic. or this one for eye catch value; Sailing: The sport of superheroes (photo: Emily Brown) (Yes, Spidy is riding too high. On retreval he realised the CB flap that is connected to the wand and controls ride height was missing and probably came off during launching. Suprisingly it was still very sailable, although a little precarious.) |
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