No price
No phone number.

Bet the wife said.
Sell that bloody boat.
Husband said.
I have a for sale sign on it but not getting any calls yet

Craig66 said..



No price
No phone number.

Bet the wife said.
Sell that bloody boat.
Husband said.
I have a for sale sign on it but not getting any calls yet

Love them or hate them but when one comes up for sale down here they don't seem to last for long on the market

What ever happen to the bloke had plans to sail one up the WA coast a few years ago

Regards Don

They are actually more expensive now than when they were sold new .
It's the only boat I know of that appreciate's in value.

Datawiz said..
Now this is my dream boat. Have seen it in the flesh - it's perfect.
It's for the serious or full time cruiser - unfortunately, I Just don't have the time to do it justice.
yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/najad-391/214214
allan

Very nice yacht ! Love the idea of the slutter rig !! for cruising . Needs a folding prop and slab reefing though .

Datawiz said..

SandS said..

Datawiz said..
Now this is my dream boat. Have seen it in the flesh - it's perfect.
It's for the serious or full time cruiser - unfortunately, I Just don't have the time to do it justice.
yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/najad-391/214214
allan

Very nice yacht ! Love the idea of the slutter rig !! for cruising . Needs a folding prop and slab reefing though .

Folding prop, yeah - but keep the in mast furling, it's a cruiser set up for single handing.
regards,
allan

yeah maybe , just seems a shame to not have a good battened mainsail, because it would sail fairly well looking at the underwater shape ect .

sydchris said..
TH Mk3 with an interesting rig - yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/top-hat-25-mk3-optimised-for-cruising/234154

That's Blue Moon. Junkette rigged and a really good example of a Top Hat. I believe it's sold and now living in QLD, having just traveled up to the Gold Coast to deliver her to her new owner, with a couple of other boats from Camden Haven who are continuing on to the Whitsundays.

sydchris said..

MichaelR said..

sydchris said..
TH Mk3 with an interesting rig - yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/top-hat-25-mk3-optimised-for-cruising/234154

That's Blue Moon. Junkette rigged and a really good example of a Top Hat. I believe it's sold and now living in QLD, having just traveled up to the Gold Coast to deliver her to her new owner, with a couple of other boats from Camden Haven who are continuing on to the Whitsundays.

New owner may have had a change of heart, or at least plans, according to the sales text anyway.

I guess "junkette" is another word for "fully battened gaff main" ?

Wow, interesting. I was texting yesterday with the previous owner who's a member here too, and he just got through telling me about sailing her up to QLD to deliver her to her new owner..... how things change in such a short time.

Bundeenabuoy said..
Please tell me why this is not great buying?
What is that repair patch on the hull?
No engine photo?

https://www.boatsales.com.au/boats/details/1980-sparkman-stephens-34/OAG-AD-16889537/?Cr=3&psq=(And.Service.Boatsales._.Make.SPARKMAN%20&%20STEPHENS.)&pso=0&pss=Premium

1980 built, when did sail drives start being used?
Slip photos have date stamp 17/Jan/2017 and interior 26/Jan/2019

And what do you call that old rope ladder?

Bundeenabuoy said..
Please tell me why this is not great buying?
What is that repair patch on the hull?
No engine photo?

https://www.boatsales.com.au/boats/details/1980-sparkman-stephens-34/OAG-AD-16889537/?Cr=3&psq=(And.Service.Boatsales._.Make.SPARKMAN%20&%20STEPHENS.)&pso=0&pss=Premium

steel , rust repair maybe , if the engine looked good they would have shown it .

yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/sharpie-ketch-rigged-launched-2015-exceptional-value/234190

each to their own ...

The Hobbit's boat??

Chris249 said..

Bundeenabuoy said..
Please tell me why this is not great buying?
What is that repair patch on the hull?
No engine photo?

https://www.boatsales.com.au/boats/details/1980-sparkman-stephens-34/OAG-AD-16889537/?Cr=3&psq=(And.Service.Boatsales._.Make.SPARKMAN%20&%20STEPHENS.)&pso=0&pss=Premium

I'm 99.999999% sure it's a Roberts, and a much earlier design than 1980. I don't know if S&S ever designed a hard chine yacht at all.

The interior looks nice. The hull is tough because it withstood something that dented the port waterline significantly - perhaps the same sort of big log that smashed up my boat a few moorings upstream.

Strange looking boat, looks like it was based around an s&s 34

Very reminiscent of Bolgers box boats, sailed & motored very well apparently but we're just too ugly to catch on

woko said..
Very reminiscent of Bolgers box boats, sailed & motored very well apparently but we're just too ugly to catch on

There are a bunch of people, including former owners of Bolgers, who say they often sailed quite poorly. For a semi-objective viewpoint I looked up the race results I could find and the Bolgers generally re-shaped the boundaries of sloooooooow. I know that speed is not everything, but still.....

One of the boats that some Bolgerphiles pointed to, for example, was a Light Schooner in South Australia. It did OK in long downwind races but it was handicapped slower than the standard older cruiser/racer trailables of the same length, which had to drag around the weight of full interiors whereas the Bolger was an open boat. By open boat standards it was very slow.

Cute boat, and I wouldn't mind a box boat myself, but most of them seem to perform poorly and some ex-owners say some of them were unsafe. Even if speed is not the issue, their safety and ease of handling appear to be dubious when compared to a conventional boat reefed down to the same speed.

Interested in hearing everyones thoughts on this one

www.boatsonline.com.au/boats-for-sale/used/sailing-boats/mottle-33-excellent-presentation-many-upgrades-as-new-motor/233705

Regards Don