UK Spindrift 11n finished value?

[davidlomax]

Hi,

 

I have a finished Spindrift 11N that I'm interested in selling, but I'm unsure what kind of price to ask for for it.

 

It's a fully epoxy coated hull with an epoxy paint system and comes with  folding oars and a full professionally made gunter rig with a Jekyll sail. 

 

Has anyone sold anything like this?

 

Many thanks,

 

Dave

[Aphers]

Looks good. 

It's very hard to put a value on this. The market for people who want this kind of busy, but don't want to build their own, is going to be pretty small.

I spent about £800 building my 11N (using a donated rig to keep the cost down), and it took three months of every evening and weekend I had. I enjoyed the process and I enjoy using the boat, in part because of the satisfaction of having built it myself. I've also incorporated a few design details to suit my needs, and gained the skills that allowed me to repair it when it got hit by a motorboat. 

 

But to sum up... if you'd been offering this for sale back when I was about to build mine, I'd likely have been happy to offer you at least £1000, and I would have got three months of my life back...

 

Maybe someone else would offer considerably more. Certainly if you add up the materials and factor in the labour, it would likely cost £4000 or so to have one built professionally.

 

Good luck anyway...

 

[11N1683]

A drascome 8' goes for 4k. A Pt11 similar. The right cruiser would be getting a bargain at 3k, depending on what their needs are. The trick would be to find the right person. In my case, I really wanted a nesting sailing dinghy but literally couldn't buy one.

[Bryan Rolfe]

The longer you can wait for a buyer, the better. I'd probably say 3-4K US if I were buying one instead of building, after having just done that. If I were selling mine, there's probably no price that would be reasonable for how much time I spent on it, but if I got a good 4-5 years out of it cruising, and then was ready to sell it, I'd be happy with 1-2K.