We’ve had years of pleasure (mostly) successfully selling many wooden and other boats.

We pride ourselves on our ability to find good homes for your boat, at sensible prices. We also try to find good homes for boat related gear, such as trailers, dynastart units, outboard motors, fittings and equipment, construction materials, tools etc. 

To find out how we can help you, please phone or email us.

If your boat sells for over 40,000 as a result of our direction, then there would be a 7.5% commission. More time goes into this stuff than you might imagine.

If it sells for less than that, as a result of our direction, it would be a 10% commission. Thats because it takes the same time to convince people for less return!!

You also supply an inventory list and condition statement, as well as anecdotes around the life of the boat. Pictures with people, especially families in them are good.
We will never 'hype' the boat in order to get a sale.

If we think its crappy, or wildly over priced we will say so, but we will also suggest ways that it may be rectified, if we believe it can be.

Robert Ayliffe

The perches are thinning, everywhere I look.

They are turning them out to pasture, or the long paddock. My friend Peter is the latest. He built and still owns a highly desirable Ian Oughtred Mk 1 Wee Seal, which he started building about 25 years ago. Or was it longer? I dont know. His hair is thinner now, and he mumbles about retirement, and purchasing slippers. He confessed over lunch yesterday that he’d has actually joined a ukulele group..

So I now know for sure that he IS serious about selling Selklie. I like that boat. I had the pleasure of sailing with Peter on Selki, with Ronald Jesche.not long after she was launched, about 25 years BMP. (Before mobile phones)

I have video of that event should prospective buyers interested.

Peter is fastidious, a quality I know little about. But admire in others. There are signs. Look at his hat. He has kept Selfke well. I sailed accross St Vincent Gulf in my own wee ship, Charlie Fisher in company with Peter and Selkie. I took some pictures taken from Charlie Fisher, of Selkie That day.. Peter and Seilkie looked so good. Selkie may have that effect on you too, should you succumb
her charms. Owning such a beautiful boat, and making sure people KNOW that you own such a thing speaks to the observer of aesthetic sensibility and hints that even you should definitely be included in their previously in accessible social orbit.

Want to know more? Call during business hours. About 30 K or offer..with a very good trailer.

Built by our friend Tom Pearce from one of our kits 12 years ago, and finally launched 6 years ago., Lucky Duck (yes it’s OK to change a boat’s name..) is now for sale. Lucky Duck with her large cockpit and yawl rig is, like all her Norwalk Island sharpies sisters a deceptively capable small boat that will richly reward an adept and enthusiastic new custodian.

The little yawl has a comfortable vee berth (double bunk) and a snug single berth on the starboard side. The double will richly improve hour social standing, even while lying down. We are told. The single berth is a bit constricting for the average sumo wrestler, like the back seat is, in a Porsche..

This wonderful small ship could be yours, serious live aboard on rivers or bays, or well planned journeys to Kangaroo Island, Auckland and beyond.. Its not the size, dummy. It’s the way you sail her about.

She has a near new 4 stroke 2.5hp outboard motor, and a retractable foil off centre, centre board There a single burner stove, a sink, food stowage space. Led low power draw lights. Electrics, stove, sink and good stowage lockers. She has state of the art carbon fibre masts and booms and mast folding tabernacles, She comes with a custom low slung Premier trailer for easy ltransiting to distant and romantic cruising grounds. She has an as new dunny (Porta Potti) on board that can be put in the cockpit at night to keep the vibe good in the cabin. Mozzi repellant advised. There is also a place for dunny business inside the cabin on long trips where one or the other would prefer not to 'share'.

Offers around $35000 will be considered.

‘Lyle has nearly finished his carefully built NIS 18 Ketch. The vision was trailing and sailing in a big retirement, but life has intervened, and he has move, soon.  At this point he will be open to. sensible offers. 

Every thing abut the boat is meticulous.  From the new light weight alloy trailer to the detail of the fittings, the set up of the tabernacles and the care in all aspects of finishing All the products used are high quality, the Okoume plywood, the premium Bote Cote Epoxy Systems bonding and sealing and related Aquacote polyurethane extreme long life painting clear finish used throughout the job speaks of quality, and low maintenance into the future

This will be a very enjoyable start to 2025, for a discerning builder/sailor.

Inventory.
Running rig, reefing gear, brand new tan sails set, masts raising tabernacles, halyards, electricals, outboard motor, cb lifting all good to go. The only thing left to get or make is interior soft furnishing. 

You could be sailing within a week of purchasing her!

Please contact us, she willneed to find a new home quickly!
Woolloongabba  Brisbane, Queensland.

Barlu has been very well built principally by volunteers and our friends Barb and Louise. Sadly Barb passed ay a year ago, and life has caught up with the group that began the journey with this excellent St Ayles skiff.  She has had one big outing and Barb got to row her. Barlu bristles with evidence of a good build, lavish sealing with Bote Cote premium epoxy resins and bonded with Bote Cote non brittle epoxy past ‘EGlue’. Combine this with the non toxic and very tough Aquacote paints she is here for the very long time.  

Barlu is fully compliant with ST Ayles Skiff rules. She comes with a specially designed custom 3 skiff!!! Australian made trailer. The total materials cost is bit over 10K, the trailer cost $4500 and of course the labour is all on top of that. Barlu at $10,000 will be blessing, especially to any club that wants to particulate in regattas, and upcoming international events, far and wide.   

Barlu is a classic community coastal rowing boat. Extremely competent and comfortable. She may be rowed  in conditions that the dragon boaters never will, and you will see your local waterways through different eyes.
 
Change YOUR communities life. Invest in Barlu.

Tan sail, oars,  

Good condition.  

Ready to go sailing now.  

$3500.  

Mount Barker 

Live aboard NIS section river boat, or able to be incredibly ostentatious (and wonderful) centre cockpit launch.  

Very strong, well constructed using premium materials and ‘Lifetime’ non polluting CopRBote anti foul.  Ready to be completed.

This could be a very elegant live aboard rent free home with almost no maintenance of many years. Solve your big cost of housing crisis! If you got your act together her owner might even give you time in their BIG suburban Adelaide shed, to finish her off and and tick off up the river! She will be just legal o the road, very shallow draft and as tough as a hull can be. Even I could look very good in this.boat. Might just be what your miserable social life needs! 

Trailerable, or easily lifted to Semi Trailer for transportation any where. Weight about 2.5 tonnes.  

In shed in suburban Adelaide.  

Now urgent.  Big enough to live aboard.
Make an offer!!!!  
Adelaide SA  
Delivery can be arranged.  

Well equipped including 2 pairs English bronze rowlocks, Watersnake 54lb 12Volt Battery Motor (will sell seperately $470) and pro built trailer.  

4 hp outboard for sale
Manual Start 4 stroke hardly used.
$490 ono

Superb rowing whitehall style machine.

May be rowed 1 or two up.  May be set up for sail.  Possibly the best built Acorn 15 in Australia.  All Okoume plywood, All Hoop Pine trim, etc. epoxy construction by master craftsman Chris Rebecchi.  

Price includes trailer, but this boat may also more conveniently roof topped on good roof racks.  

Oars included.

Boat in NSW.

Hartley 18’ half cabin planing hull open water capable cruiser. Galvanised Premier Trailer. Built circa 1965.

Two excellent Volvo Penta motors, one as spare; gear box, prop shaft and prop. Serviced, ready to be put back in boat. 

Unused South Lakes Marine Upholstery full head room  convertible storm proof canopy kit. Unused  windows and screen, waiting be fitted. Tidy strong build.  Sleeps two, inside cabin.

Under sole and inside cabin stripped ready for Bote Cote epoxy sealing.  Needs to have 'the bits' put back on.  Volvo Penta manuals and parts catalogs included.

And much more.

Part built NIS 26 hull, cabin furniture and cockpit framing on crappy but useful trailer . Okoume plywood. All epoxy filleted and coated.  Glassed outside. CB case in place.

Currently in northern NSW,  still in build.  The owner has been doing a careful job of her, using the best materials.  We know, we supplied them!

However as sometimes happens. life itself outruns the original reason to build.  The owner had intended to build  her with electric drive, and to cruise with his enthusiastic younger family.

They kinda grew up, along the way, and priorities have changed.

The boat and her stories would have been sensational. She also might have been the first NIS 9.5 in the world with our unstayed carbon masts booms and tabernacles. 

To have been called, Santa Maria, she now awaits somone else to pick her up, and carry her to where she might be finished, and make the dream real.

There is a lot of materials and equipment with her.

Enough Bote Cote epoxy resins, glass fabrics, Okoume plywood etc etc to finish her.

She is still upside down on her building frame.  

She is pretty much ready for lifting off the build frame, tuning and fitting out of the interior.

The owner may be able be able to lift her onto a big traytop truck or semi trailer.

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