Kudu has been on brokerage since Christmas week and still not sold, and I can’t understand why. At £3,650 she is an awful lot of boat for the money, and priced well below other comparable boats of lesser spec. I have since removed the shore power system from Kudu (everything else remains) and reduced the price to £3,250.

I have also got the rig back up so she looks like a sailing boat, and the broken goose neck is being repaired, so she’ll be ready to sail straight away.

The sails are like new, the modern Suzuki 4-stroke engine has only seen a single season of use since buy it in late 2008, the instruments are all new, and the deck gear (Harken/Spinlock) is new too. She’s not some ancient day sailor that has been sat on a mooring buoy most of it’s life. This is a proper sea going boat set up for single handed sailing. If you want a starter boat for the family, she’d be well suited to that too. Heck, she’s proven herself in far worse conditions than you would ever consider taking the kids out in.

Please, if you know somebody who’s looking for a boat, can you send them this way. £3,250 is not a messing about price, it’s silly money for Kudu, but I can barely afford to keep one boat. I currently have two to pay for and it’s killing me. The old girl needs to be sold soon.

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