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.

We do chargé a modest commission is 10% on all sales.
More time goes into this stuff than you might imagine!
We are happy to use your pictures or ours should we have them.
Good shots interior, on the water and at anchor are very helpful , especially with with happy  people in them,  are helpful.

Initial set up fee is  a non refundable Au$200.  Additional costs may be incurred if we have to go off site to take new photographs.  The more high resolution the better. Stories of places visited and special features are good too. 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

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Ashleigh's attention to detail. Earlier boat. But you get the idea.

Lots of inlaid Sapele deck. Set up for two x v8 motors.
Hull bottom very strong and low rocker for easly planing, easily managed high speed.

Note minimal rocker straight run and quality of hull.

Attention to detail!

'Cape Bouvard’ is currently stored on her custom tandem trailer, waiting for your inspection, in a secure shed  in the Barossa Valley in South Australia. 

Asking price is $35K, but all offers considered.  She may be inspected there or on the water in Adelaide should you prefer that.

‘Cape Bouvard’ Easy to trail launch and retrieve behind medium car.  A caravan, for two, en route?

The pictures tell the story.

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Slippery hull leaves very little wake. Slippery hull means greater cruising range and modest fuel consumption. A symphony in Bote Cote Epoxy resins and Okoume premium marine plywood.

Neat, easily accessible engine installation. Motor is fresh water cooled and surprisingly quiet.

Spacious Vee Berth. Please excuse spilled glass of water!. Note large Butt Straps, and substantial fore and aft stringers.

And the alfresco Galley!

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! 

Electric  “E Propulsion” 6KW pod power pack 6 hours @ 6 Knots in river or lake, at higher speed about 90 minutes run time, at half speed up to 3 hours run time.  Standard set up appprox $10,000 with plug and play battery pack, wifi controls and more. LARGER BATTERY PACK MAY DOUBLE RANGE.  Great basis for party or permanent live aboard boat. Very well built hull, tough and very low wash slippery hull. Cold Molded radiused hull extremely tough, multi layers Double Bias Cloth/Bote Cote Epoxy resin, and Cop R Bote 30 year foul resist paint. A live aboard boat, could carry modest twin mast sail rig for Auxiliary power and  a big hunk of chutzpa.

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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