USED BOATS Sell 5 low-cost vessels from 6.7 to 9.99 m

We keep going to discover the best used boat bargains on our classifieds marketplace. Here you can sell and buy used boats, accessories, berths, find the right idea for your vacation, and even look for and offer jobs! Today we have scouted for you five unregistered used boats (watercraft) from 6.70 to 9.99 meters at very attractive prices! We present them to you in ascending order of length. A safe used car: guarantees the Sailing Newspaper!

5 used boats from 6.70 to 9.99 m

Mono 22 – 6.70 m – A daysailer for fun

The first of the used boats we propose is a sport daysailer. It is a Mono 22 (6.70 x 2.44 m), which designer Enzo Marolli designed for the MVela shipyard in 1997. The one-design boat was quite successful, with 50 examples initially spread around the Lake Maggiore area.

Easy to steer (especially in light to medium winds, as it suffers a bit above 20 knots) and manage, requires little maintenance and is trolleyable (with a retractable bulb daggerboard): the interior cabin is rather sacrificed for the benefit of a large cockpit that betrays, first and foremost, its “racing” vocation.

A small outboard (electric, why not?) can be attached to the transom, which you can stow on board if you sail.

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The model we propose is in the “junior” version (i.e., the less sailed one originally created for sailing schools, with one order of spreaders instead of two), with gennaker, jib and mainsail and can be seen in Valmadrera (Lecco). The boat is in excellent condition and the deck is finished with non-slip for added safety. The price is great, but there is also the possibility of a trade-in for a similarly sized cruiser.

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Used boats on sale: Comet 701 – 7.07 m – The perfect first boat

The second of the used boats for sale is a great little Made in Italy classic. A Comet 701 (7.07 x 2.55 m) that Finot designed for the Comar shipyard in Fiumicino in the early 1970s, but entered production a few years later to remain there until 1985, with over 250 hulls sold. A trailerable sloop, a vessel created for small and medium-range cruising, including family cruising.

A marine and maneuverable fiberglass boat: an excellent opportunity as an “entry level” for those who want to buy their first boat: below deck, there are four berths. Two berths in square and one double V-shaped berth in the bow. It’s a bit cramped, all right, but there is everything you need: a table, a two-burner stove, a sink.

Storage space is also interesting thanks to a large aft locker for fenders, mooring lines, tools.

The model under review, from 1976, can be seen in Nettuno, Lazio. Complete with all safety equipment (and new 2022 cushions), it has a mainsail and furling jib. The boat has been remotorized with a 15-horsepower Nanni Diesel inboard. Good price.

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Zuanelli Z25 – 7.30 m – That Stephens hull…

The third of the unregistered used boats we offer is a Zuanelli Z25 (7.30 x 2.54 m): a small but complete cruiser that combines, in just over seven meters, a comfortable cockpit, a deckhouse with a rounded design, and, above all, a hull designed by Olin Stephens, one of the greatest designers of America’s Cup boats.

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Stephens designed the Alpa 21 in 1975, but when the Offanengo (Cremona) shipyard went out of business due to financial difficulties the boat’s molds were purchased by Pietro Zuanelli, owner of the yard of the same name in Padenghe sul Garda (Brescia). From Alpa 21, therefore, the development of Z25 started.

A boat that was already “modern,” with all halyards deferred in the cockpit disappearing under a special passage, leaving the deck clear. In the elongated stern, there is a large locker.
Below deck, four bunks in two separate rooms, toilet, a small kitchen, lots of wood to make the rooms “warm.” Stephens’ hand can be felt: the boat “walks” well, both upwind and at the leads.

The boat, currently dry-docked and equipped with a BMW 6-horsepower inboard engine and sails in good condition, can be seen in Moniga del Garda (Brescia). Until 1981, it was used exclusively on the lake. Attractive price.

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Used boats: Golden Lion – 7.90 m – Do you remember Alex Carozzo?

We continue our review with the fourth of the used boats under the lens. A little gem, especially considering its designer. In fact, the Golden Lion (7.90 x 3.05 m) was born from the experience of Alex Carozzo, the only Italian to have participated in the legendary Golden Globe 1968 (solo round-the-world voyage) and the protagonist of numerous solo sailings that consecrated him as a “cult” sailor of boating.

The first special feature of the boat (designed in 1976, built at the Progressive Yachts shipyard in Desenzano del Garda) lies in its width, which was out of the ordinary for the time. Carozzo, a “long range” sailor, understood the importance of having generous interior spaces, and the 3.05 m beam translates into XXL volumes for one less than 8 meters.

Below deck, the interior is divided into two spaces: the forward cabin with two V-shaped berths, and a saloon with fold-down table, side sofas and continuing aft, galley and chart area. It sleeps five, but is perfect for four.

How does the Golden Lion sail? Well, it is easy to run and has a balanced sail plan (with jib overhead). The boat remained in production until 1985.

The model for sale, visible in Nobiallo (Como) is from 1980. E’ powered by a 12-horsepower Nanni Diesel, has a separate marine toilet, interior redone new in 2021, and a mainsail with lady bag, jib, and genoa. Attractive price.

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Wing 34 – 9.99 m – Definitely IOR

We close with the last of the boats used “under the lens.” This one, like the previous one, also bears the signature of Luca Taddei, designer of the various Stags and one of the leading figures in IOR boats made in Italy. We are talking about a Wing 34 (9.99 x 3.40 m), a boat that the Le Petit Bateau shipyard in Bedizzole, Brescia, Italy, built from 1982 to 1990. Of the boat, IV Class IOR rigged sloop 7/8 with high and low steering wheels, 16 examples were made.

The deckhouse, which slopes with a sharp “cathetus” toward the bow, is thin, which facilitates sideways passage on deck. Tiller rudder, protected cockpit interspersed with the mainsail track, and below deck the saloon with two sofas/berths and center table, the galley on the port side towards the stern and to its starboard the chart table. In the bow is the double cabin and toilet.

It is an accomplished boat, not least because one of its twins won many IOR regattas in the 1980s (the Italian IV Class Championship in 1983-84 and first runner-up at the world class selections).

The model for sale, visible in Rimini, is sold at a very attractive price and has the Yanamar engine with only 100 hours on it.

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Edited by Eugenio Ruocco

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