Interesting boats for sale

That's nice looking boat with a decent motor and shaft drive. Nothing like the other one with an MD7b and saildrive.

AFAIK these boats have stub keels with lead bolt on. I think I can see the joint in one of the pics. The key question is what material did Dunc use for the keel bolts- stainless or silicon-bronze?

So Ramona, it seems judgeing by some of your recent examples of boats for sale, the non committed or serious yacht owners are bailing out big time.

That guy with Nellie Zander should pay someone to take it off his hands.

Here a couple more in that area.

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/mooloolaba/sail-boats/adams-36-yacht/1098527550

www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/peregian-beach/sail-boats/joe-adams-40-ft-round-bilge/1207651306

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cisco said..
So Ramona, it seems judgeing by some of your recent examples of boats for sale, the non committed or serious yacht owners are bailing out big time.

The serious yacht owners are just dying! Young people just want shiny. There is a nice Northshore 33 on the slips here at the moment bloke our age bought for 18 grand!

Bruce has lowered the asking price again. Like a lot of us he is getting on a bit and finding the boat a bit much for him.

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/1203066151?utm_source=trigger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=watchlist_pricedrop&utm_content=product

Discard the dud hull and convert it to a power proa

15k!!! What is stopping you from buying it??

But you are still looking. That is curious.

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theselkie said..

cisco said..
But you are still looking. That is curious.

It's a habit I've gotten into. Plus it's my kind of porn

Hear! Hear!

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Chris 249 said..

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sydchris said..
Steel S&S34 @ Batemans Bay for a sensible price... www.baybroker.com.au/batemans_bayyachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/sparkman-stephens-34/228339

Never seen a steel SS34 before. Be good to see a photo of it out of the water! Bit over twice the weight of a 'glass SS34 so she wont be all that fast.

That was close to my old mooring. It's a Roberts 34, not an S&S, and it's not particularly "well maintained" as it claims; in fact I think the paint job may be the result of a dent repair after it came off the mooring.

Says a lot about the attractiveness of the S&S34 that other designs try to make out they are one. It might be the same broker who has another boat in Batemans Bay he is calling an S&S34, but it isn't.
Or maybe he is just a bull...t artist broker!

Nice one

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Says a lot about the attractiveness of the S&S34 that other designs try to make out they are one. It might be the same broker who has another boat in Batemans Bay he is calling an S&S34, but it isn't.
Or maybe he is just a bull...t artist broker!

I was going to call it a Roberts 34 but would have preferred a shot of her out of the water. No one would build a single chine SS34 !. Got into a discussion with the owner of that other boat when he was here for a few days. I called it a Townsend 34 and he got quite agitated!

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Ramona said..

MorningBird said..


Says a lot about the attractiveness of the S&S34 that other designs try to make out they are one. It might be the same broker who has another boat in Batemans Bay he is calling an S&S34, but it isn't.
Or maybe he is just a bull...t artist broker!

I was going to call it a Roberts 34 but would have preferred a shot of her out of the water. No one would build a single chine SS34 !. Got into a discussion with the owner of that other boat when he was here for a few days. I called it a Townsend 34 and he got quite agitated!

It is pretty common knowledge what happened to the S&S34, (S&S Design 1969) moulds. Anything not built in those moulds is not the well known S&S34 yacht. I don't know why owners and brokers keep trying this on.
Winfield built the moulds in 1967 or thereabouts and built their boats.
The Swarbrick brothers went to the UK and bought them, late 1968 or 69.
Swarbrick built their boats. They went broke in 1984 (Morning Bird the last of their boats) and Maybrook Marine on the Central Coast got the moulds. They built about 6-10 boats.
The moulds sat in a paddock until Mike Finn bought them and they went back to Perth for the latest batch to be built by Cottesloe Yachts.
The moulds are still there.
Morning Bird is hull no 118 (or 119 depending on the list being looked at). Here is a list of the Swarbrick and Cottesloe built boats.
www.ss34.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Register-of-Yachts-built-website.pdf
Many Swarbrick boats were owner fitted out and look like it. I have been on maybe 15 and all the owner fitted out ones were horrible. The Maybrook boats have lovely interiors.
Morning Bird has a quite nice fitout (not of the very high standard Maybrook did their boats too) and I notice on the records in this link she may have been fitted out by Maybrook. I doubt that, I believe from talking with Neil de Cean, the first owner who ordered her from Swarbricks and who I bought her from, she was fitted out by Swarbrick and all that happened when she arrived here was that the engine and rig was installed at RSYS.

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It is pretty common knowledge what happened to the S&S34, (S&S Design 1969) moulds. Anything not built in those moulds is not the well known S&S34 yacht. I don't know why owners and brokers keep trying this on.
Winfield built the moulds in 1967 or thereabouts and built their boats.
The Swarbrick brothers went to the UK and bought them, late 1968 or 69.

I was dead keen on buying this Aquafibre hull SS34, same as Edward Heath's boat. Lot lighter than the Swarbrick boats.

www.ss34.org/index.php/directory/linaii/

Same deal with SS36. There is the WA built Prestige and then the built by Holiday Boats Bataan, Phillipines SS36.

www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/yachts/keeler/auction-2430874701.htm