Best Sea Design (double skin)

[Martin]

Popeye.  If residual (monetary) value is a particular issue then perhaps  you need to think about whether a development class is really for you, particularly if the class enters a period of rapid change.  That said I get the impression 12s fare better than most.

[popeye]

Yes valid points, its more to do with national 12's are a fairly specialist boat and how easy they are to re-sell iam not sure. I dont want to be stuck with a boat that when the time comes and i want  to buy a better spec 12 i will be able to sell it.
Or will be able to sell it but will proberly take several months in doing so.

[sam293]

double bottom 12's do sell n very fast, even the ac's are only up for sale for a short time.
theres always people looking to upgrade, or join the class, so you should have no trouble at all selling any 12 on.

[John Meadowcroft]

Popeye
It is a fair observation about selling.  My experience is that you have to be patient.  Some boats go very quickly (normally the purchaser has just missed out on something else!) and at other times they dont - maybe the purchaser also has something to sell.  I have never been able to find rhyme or reason to what goes on, having sold boats before I have ever needed to advertise them, and also advertised for more than 3 months without an enquiry.  The last 3 boats that I have sold went to the first enquiry.  One of them the enquiry was within 2 hours of posting the ad, and the boat had gone within 48 hours, having been inspected within 24...
I dont know really how different this is to other classes, but I had similar experience when selling OKs

[popeye]

Hi again all this is my thread from a couple of years ago :-/. At the time in the end my boat money became the deposit for my house! Lol