I think I posted about this boat previously. So apologies if I'm repeating myself. I picked this boat up from a marina who had taken it in lieu of mooring fees. Paid over the odds for it to help the owner who had been ill but still got a bargain. It's now having a nuts and bolts rebuild although I originally intended to just pretty it up and sell it on. However, I soon realised that it has the best interior layout of any 26ft boat I've seen of any age, so decided to keep it. It needs more work than originally thought as all the structural timber from the transom to the mid bulkhead was rotten and I mean crumbling away and saturated rotten. No problem to cut it all out and replace which I'm doing now.
I should mention here that when I sold my previous 40ft flybridge cruiser to downsize I had intended to buy something tailor-made and just use it. First choices were the Jeanneau Leader or Beneteau Ombrine. But neither offered the standard of accommodation that I wanted and I would have had to do a lot of modifications which seemed to make spending about ?40,000 pounds ($55,000 dollars?) a bit stupid. So it was back to normal and rebuild another wreck!
Anyway what I find quite strange is that there only seem to be two of these in existence, mine and a shell in Dawsonville (where-ever that is!) Reinell went through a decidedly dodgy patch some years ago when the factory mysteriously burnt down and all financial records and archives of boats were lost. So are there in fact more of these boats about? I don't need to know anything about them, just interested. All the best from across the pond! Peter
I should mention here that when I sold my previous 40ft flybridge cruiser to downsize I had intended to buy something tailor-made and just use it. First choices were the Jeanneau Leader or Beneteau Ombrine. But neither offered the standard of accommodation that I wanted and I would have had to do a lot of modifications which seemed to make spending about ?40,000 pounds ($55,000 dollars?) a bit stupid. So it was back to normal and rebuild another wreck!
Anyway what I find quite strange is that there only seem to be two of these in existence, mine and a shell in Dawsonville (where-ever that is!) Reinell went through a decidedly dodgy patch some years ago when the factory mysteriously burnt down and all financial records and archives of boats were lost. So are there in fact more of these boats about? I don't need to know anything about them, just interested. All the best from across the pond! Peter