So I've been putting this off for awhile because I'm not really sure what to say. So what better way to say nothing than write a rambling blog post on a dull Wednesday night.
Having been in the market for a second hand boat for over a year now, the current market frustrates me. There seem to be plenty of boats on the worldwide market, but I can't justify paying anywhere near the asking prices. A number of boats have come round and round with very slight price drops every couple of months. One of my friends boats included, a good quality prowler zero. (Sorry Al, any publicity is good publicity right? :)
It is an interesting marketplace. Secondhand boats don't seem to be selling as fast as would be expected for such a "popular"/"high profile" class. Owners also seem to be willing to hold onto boats for as long as required to get a good price.
Clearly some secondhand boats are selling, we met some at the worlds, but it doesn't appear to be many compared with how many are still for sale doing the round'n'round.
Price doesn't seem to be a contributing factor with plenty of new mach2's selling.
Maybe I'm ranting a bit here because of my desire to be on the water instead of blogging. Sure I can afford these boats, hell even a mach2 if i want to demolish my savings, but there would be little point spending twice as much to have the same amount of fun.
For now I guess I'll keep stealing Markla's boat (once it is back in working order). It was behaving quite well during the short session I had with it at the worlds. It probably won't get as much attention two weeks from now anyway.
In other news, Markla has plenty of video from a session at Southport a few weeks ago (Post it Markla!). Markla also has to fit a near new ONE PIECE fastacraft foil to his boat. Long story short, he bought a near new two piece fastacraft at the worlds, we fitted it in one day, moments into its first airborne run it disintegrated at the joint ripping the pushrod out the back of the strut, plus plenty of other damage to the main foil, subsequent crash destroyed the gantry and broke the tiller, tiller (and the raking mechanism) were lost overboard, Mark was very upset. Word is that John Ilett was very good about it later and swapped broken main foil for near new one piece of his own after the regatta.
