Are you sick of this one already?

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/yanchep/sail-boats/farrier-tt720/1011849930

Knock it off and you could make a big profit on this one.

www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/campania/sail-boats/tt-680-farrier-trimaran/1011176421

As far as this one goes:-

www.boatsales.com.au/DesktopDefault.aspx?R=13727479&Silo=Stock&tabid=3012699&Vertical=Boat&Ridx=73&eapi=2

If your mate pays me the right money, I'll survey it for him. However, it is on the east coast and he, I assume, is on the west coast. It is not cheap either, so why would he even consider it??

He could buy my S&S 34 for less money than that.

Saying "What is an S&S34?" is like saying, "Who is Jimmy Hendrix?"

Famous design. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26S_34

Oh, and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_hendrix - just in case.

Not many S&S 34 this side of the Island looks allright shame it is a fixed keel job, you should come and see the price of mooring in WA................ If you are lucky to get one it is about 15k to buy in the Swan with a few bridges to go under (drop mast job) In a marina expect to pay 5k minimum a year.
I have a dry stand and it is close to the ramp so I can keep the mast up.

Dont know where your sailing felix, but the S&S 34's are everywhere you look on the river on race days. There is a nice cole 32's going cheap at South of Perth YC. There's always half a dozen S&S 34's available across Perth. Sellers who are dreamin and genuine bargains on any given day - just got to keep looking.

I do like the look of that Sonata. Pity its in Tassie

Club Membership fees about 1100 + pen about 1500 for a little yacht like that.

If I were looking in that size range and price, I'd be looking at the spacesailor 22/24 or 27. Anywhere from 9K to 27K depending on condition & fruit.
Or what about an S80 (15K-30K - the dodgem cars of the swan river.)

Both these boats have excellent fleets in Perth and therefore you'll get parts as well as expertise whether it be repairs or coaching.

Ramona said...

That's just crazy talk, I can't believe you can not sell that yacht. It's the end of the world as we know it!

Believe it. Nobody wants to do the work. So I will do it myself, by which time it will very doubtful that I would be able to part with it.

cisco said...
Believe it. Nobody wants to do the work. So I will do it myself, by which time it will very doubtful that I would be able to part with it.

If I had the time to work on a boat and still go to work I would steal this in a flash, alas, time is my biggest enemy and so the next boat has to be one that's all ready to go without having to do anything to it before I can use it.

Sorry Ramona, I know you would like some new neighbours up the creek.

Sunseeker39 said...
Dont know where your sailing felix, but the S&S 34's are everywhere you look on the river on race days. There is a nice cole 32's going cheap at South of Perth YC. There's always half a dozen S&S 34's available across Perth. Sellers who are dreamin and genuine bargains on any given day - just got to keep looking.

I do like the look of that Sonata. Pity its in Tassie

Club Membership fees about 1100 + pen about 1500 for a little yacht like that.

If I were looking in that size range and price, I'd be looking at the spacesailor 22/24 or 27. Anywhere from 9K to 27K depending on condition & fruit.
Or what about an S80 (15K-30K - the dodgem cars of the swan river.)

Both these boats have excellent fleets in Perth and therefore you'll get parts as well as expertise whether it be repairs or coaching.

My club is $300 and the hard stand $ 500, I am in Yanchep, Two Rocks marina is about 3k a year plus all the bird shiit removal, antifouling and so on! Had a 40 footer in Mangle bay, clean the bird crap got to me at the end! I like trailer sailers!

felixdcat said...
Dohhhhhhhhhhhh me! I did not realise that S&S stand for Swarbrick!

No it doesn't!!!!! It stands for Sparkman and Stephens you sirry irriot.

felixdcat said...
??????????????? no I am totally buggered????????

In the interests of un-buggering you, the S&S 34 is a yacht designed by the Sparkman & Stephens company of New York City in the U.S.A.. Now, some of these S&S 34's were built in Perth by a company called Swarbrick & Swarbrick and at no time ever were Swarbrick & Swarbrick referred to as S&S, that is a distinction reserved purely for Sparkman & Stephens of New York City. There ya go, all clear as mud now and you are ofishially un-buggered.

Glad we got that one settled.

felixdcat said...
i am not stoupid..... I understant kwickly if you explain long and slow!

i wroted it rooly rooly slow, coz I knoeded that you wurnt a fast reeder.

Mike Finn I believe is the driving force behind the new generation of S&S 34s. The company is Cottesloe Yachts.

Well over $100k for a hull and deck and I believe they only build to order.

LooseChange said...
$158000.00 Was the last price I read ..... in 2010,

err ... oops .... that was for a hull and deck

Mike Finn owns the moulds and Cottesloe Yachts. The first three new ones were built at Glenn's place in Henderson. I spent a day there in 2008 with Glenn and the owner of hull 3. I do not know if Glen is still involved but no further boats have come out of the moulds since No 3.
I suspect the figures quoted are about right, they are individually made and cannot be compared to a production boat. Think more in line with Bluewater or even Hallberg-Rassy. The hulls are vacuum infused, less resin, lighter by a few 100 kilos and no aeration in the glass so stronger. No 3, Blondie, had a very high quality fit out for both racing and cruising.
Blondie has blitzed the WA offshore series for the last season or two. Not bad for Olin's 45 year old design.