Best way to sell a boat

[hughjayteens]

Hi All,
My dad passed away last year and we are slowly getting through sorting out his affairs for my mum. He had a sailing boat moored on Windermere, so my mum have asked a local brokerage to sell it for her. In my opinion, they have over-valued it, and it still hasn't sold after 6 months, during which time they are charging her storage.

It is a 21ft Jeanneau with a trailer, so easy enough to transport around, but as I live in the south east it is not so easy for me to get too involved.

Does anyone know enough about boats to know if it has been fairly valued?

http://www.maiden-marine.co.uk/searchmaiden.php?rP...

has the details on it.

Any input gratefully appreciated.

Cheers

Chris

[martinmac]

Will pop up and have a look for you. Know a bit about them and have plenty of mates who are owners.

To be honest I wouldnt expect to get much interest until Easter when the weather get better.

[hughjayteens]

Hi Martin,
That would be fantastic. I did suspect this time of year would be very slow as a lot of the holiday places are closed until March.

Cheers

Chris

[martinmac]

Will have a word around to see how the local boats are selling too. Anything else I can do just e-mail me.

[ALawson]

Martin you into brokerage generally?

[martinmac]

No, I am in the merchant navy but do a fair bit of sailing.

[donutsina911]

Looks about on the money, although Sept to February isnt a brisk month for brokerage in the main. Charges for storage seems a bit mean..plenty of brokers on the South Coast who wouldn't charge for a comparatively small craft. Just make sure your broker has the yacht on all the major sales websites (yachtworld.com boatshop24.co.uk appolloduck and boatsandoutboards.co.uk to name a few plus the specialist / class association sites) The typos in the particulars don't look great but a 2 min job to sort out. Any thing I can do to help, just let me know.

Forgot to mention - your broker should be providing you the same kind of status updates as an estate agent - how many views online broken down by portal, how many calls / viewings etc. If not, kick arse.

Edited by donutsina911 on Wednesday 7th January 22:40

[MOTORVATOR]

Please tell me the brokers themselves aren't charging storage? That should be part of the deal for their cut (15%?)

[ALawson]

donutsina911 said:

Looks about on the money, although Sept to February isnt a brisk month for brokerage in the main. Charges for storage seems a bit mean..plenty of brokers on the South Coast who wouldn't charge for a comparatively small craft. Just make sure your broker has the yacht on all the major sales websites (yachtworld.com boatshop24.co.uk appolloduck and boatsandoutboards.co.uk to name a few plus the specialist / class association sites) The typos in the particulars don't look great but a 2 min job to sort out. Any thing I can do to help, just let me know.

Forgot to mention - your broker should be providing you the same kind of status updates as an estate agent - how many views online broken down by portal, how many calls / viewings etc. If not, kick arse.

Edited by donutsina911 on Wednesday 7th January 22:40

Dounuts are you the Simon on your weblink? If so what sort of berting do you do?

Cheers

Alex

[donutsina911]

Hi Alex, Simon's the Ops manager for Trafalgar Wharf - I'm just doing some freebie work for the owner of TW as a personal friend..

In terms of berthing, there's dry storage (inside and out), on water berthing in dedicated pools and traditional pontoon moorings expected imminently. Given the newness of the aquisition, if you want a berth/storage there's some cracking deals to be done, as understandably we're keen to build up a reputation. If you fancy a nose around or a PH quote let me know - its a great site with oodles of potential..

[ALawson]

donutsina911 said:

Hi Alex, Simon's the Ops manager for Trafalgar Wharf - I'm just doing some freebie work for the owner of TW as a personal friend..

In terms of berthing, there's dry storage (inside and out), on water berthing in dedicated pools and traditional pontoon moorings expected imminently. Given the newness of the aquisition, if you want a berth/storage there's some cracking deals to be done, as understandably we're keen to build up a reputation. If you fancy a nose around or a PH quote let me know - its a great site with oodles of potential..

YHM

[donutsina911]

Received thanks Alex. Will talk to Jonny on Monday and see what we can come up with and get back to you.

[martinmac]

Had a look today, the price looks fine.

[hughjayteens]

Hi Martin
Many thanks for taking the time out to go and have a look. Will speak to the broker next week and see if they can get some better photos taken before the spring and try and get it shifted. Joined a boating forum and was advised to move it to the south coast, but the logistics and expense of doing that means I'd rather put the broker under a little pressure and try and sell it where it is.

Thanks again

Chris

[martinmac]

My pleasure Chris. If you want some photos let me know, I will try to pick a decent day weatherwise.

[fortyplusfour]

Just by way of a quick introduction we are the on site brokers at Trafalgar Wharf and will happily help sell any PH members boat at very favourable terms.

I won't bore you all with a long list of why we are different but visit our website at www.fortyplusfour.com

Of course as a fellow PH'er then the discount offered for you chaps will be significant. We also can organise everything "boaty" you may need.

All the best

[Rum Runner]

Try http://www.boatshed.com/ , they have a special way of placing the ad.The have a world wide franchise which helps coverage.

Edited by Rum Runner on Sunday 25th January 17:25

[hughjayteens]

Thanks for all the feedback guys. Spoke to the brokerage and they have a new manager now who has taken a load of new photos and advised a slight price drop to get it shifted.

http://www.maiden-marine.co.uk/searchmaiden.php?rP...

Has said they are in the middle of a website revamp and will make it 'featured boat' for a month when it goes live which should all help.

Fingers crossed!

Thanks again

Chris

[hughjayteens]

Hi Chaps,
Quick update - after dropping the price on the advice on the broker, we have had ZERO offers. They claim they have had plenty of viewings but no offers. They are now advising a quite significant drop (to circa £5k) and are confident that this will get it shifted asap. The money isn't a major issue although surely every penny helps, so do people agree that this could be a good move if we are keen to get it shifted?

Cheers

Chris

[ALawson]

Have you tried ebay? Collection only obviously?