Anonymous wrote:
It seems a bargain to me (without having seen it). The sails are rubbish, and will need replacing, and the interior needs finishing, but the basics look good. The electrical installation look amazingly well done, but there is much too much of it!
Trust me on this Andrew, it's big enough. No singlehander should have or needs to have a boat bigger than this. It's a question of adapting your lifestyle to the boat you should have, rather than getting a boat big enough to fit your present lifestyle into. Don't be over-boated!
In your position, I would complete the galley, but turn the space presently allocated to a chart table into your art studio. Navigation these days can be done on a tablet, just as well as on a stack of expensive paper charts.
i hear you, the first junk i looked at was a colvin gazelle, and it was an old steely and a bit worn out, what turned me off was my head scraped the ceiling. i would get a sore neck being slightly hunched over all the time. or i would get injury with a jolt. I would like a little head room. Im still tempted by the ally' freedom ketch in langkawi bay 37' swing keel, aluminium, twin masts carobon, german built. 6'7" headroom,sabb motor/ etc