Buying Tips

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Some of the points that make boats different:

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• Hull Designs:

• Norlin
• Stradavarius

• Proof of Ownership of previous owners!
• Builder
  • Age?
  • Owners
• Hull
  • Buoyancy
  • Racing Lead
  • Has hull been faired and painted
  • Keel
  • Drain Plug
• Sails
  • Dacron
  • Kevlar
  • Mylar
• Spars :Mast, Boom and Whisker Pole
  • Twin purchase pulley system for whisker pole outhaul
  • Super Spar, Needle Spar, BJORNDAHL Spar
  • Boom Lightening?
  • Mast Stiffening (old laser mast in the foot)
• Rudder
  • Standard Rudder
  • Deep Rudder
• Trailer
  • Combi Trailer?
  • Launching trolley
  • launching/ delivery cradle
• Steering
  • Foot
  • Hand
  • Both
• Fittings
  • Make and quality of fittings
  • Floating mooring lines
  • condition of Lines
• Electric Pumps
  • waterproof battery box?
• Rigging
  • adjustable shrouds?
  • adjustable fore stay
• Stiffened Keel
  • Early Norlin 3 hulls can be strengthen to improve handling
• Back Stays
  • Multi purchase system?
• Forestay
  • Fixed
  • Adjustable
• Seating
  • Fixed
  • Foam
  • Fixing points

• Covers
  • Over cover
  • under cover
• Measurement rules
  • Weight?
  • Modified Norlin 3
  • Appedix K -
• Splash guards
  • Standard deflection guard (foredeck)
  • 1/3 cockpit guard ( cockpit)