The Spring 2024 yacht sales period has been strong for Leinster Boats, with yacht sales completed despite the weather.

Recent Spring sales sales include:

• J109, 
• Hanse 341, 
• Starlight 35 
• Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 36i  

Happy buyers now have their plans set for the 2024 season, and sellers are planning their next purchase.

Leinster Boats is part of Network Yacht Brokers International, and with a partner office in Crosshaven, we provide a pan-European network for buyers and sellers.

Contact principal broker Ronan Beirne about your requirements or discuss the sale of your vessel.

Advice on importing and exporting yachts and boats, VAT, registration and delivery logistics in this post-Brexit world.

Ronan is a member of the Association of Brokers and Yacht Agents on the East Coast and will provide the best dedicated service efficiently and professionally.

Call Ronan on 086 2543866 09.00 – 20.00 seven days.

Wishing all our clients and the Afloat community fair winds and great sailing for 2024.

Irish East Coast Yacht broker Leinster Boats has racing yachts on offer, of which there is a selection ready for the 2024 racing season.

Click on these links below for details of each featured yacht:

• J109
• Dehler 34
• First 31.7
• Sigma 33

Call Ronan Beirne to view these or other vessels on www.Leinsterboats.ie or to discuss your requirements.

Leinster Boats Principal Ronan Beirne is a member of the Association of Brokers & Yacht Agents for professional yacht brokers, ensuring the best professional service for buyers and sellers.

"Leinster Boats is a member of Network Yacht Brokers International, ensuring a wide exposure of yachts listed with 20 pan-European offices. We have experienced increased demand for quality yachts in the post-Covid period.  With Network Yacht Brokers international connections we can source quality yachts for buyers and expose sellers to our local sailing community and to a pan European market" says Ronan.

Irish East Coast Yacht broker Leinster Boats offers many cruising yachts on its brokerage listing, of which here is a selection ready to sail away.

Click on these links below for details of each yacht pictured above: 

• Hallberg-rassy-342
• Jeanneau-sun-odyssey-36i-performance
• Jeanneau-sun-odyssey-349
• Beneteau-oceanis-35

Call Ronan Beirne to view these or other vessels on www.Leinsterboats.ie or to discuss your requirements.

Leinster Boats Principal Ronan Beirne is a member of the Association of Brokers & Yacht Agents for professional yacht brokers, ensuring the best professional service for buyers and sellers.

"Leinster Boats is a member of Network Yacht Brokers International, ensuring a wide exposure of yachts listed with 20 pan-European offices", says Ronan

"With recent international sales to Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, France, and UK, Leinster Boats & Network Yacht Brokers Dublin has the international reach to present your yacht to the International market", he adds.

Irish East Coast Yacht broker Leinster Boats is offering four racing yachts ready to race.

Click on these links below for details of each boat:

• J109
• First 31.7
• Impala
• Sigma 33 OOD

Call Ronan Beirne to view these or other vessels on www.Leinsterboats.ie or to discuss your requirements.

Leinster Boats Principal Ronan Beirne is a member of the Association of Brokers & Yacht Agents for professional yacht brokers.

"Leinster Boats is a member of Network Yacht Brokers International and your broker on the East Coast, says Beirne.

"With recent international sales to Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, and UK Leinster Boats has the international reach to present your yacht to the International market", he adds.

Ireland was represented by Hugh Mockler of Crosshaven Boatyard (Network Yacht Brokers Cork) in Cork and Ronan Beirne of Leinster Boats (Network Yacht Brokers Dublin) at the first “post covid” meeting of Network Yacht Brokers took place in Bristol in July.

Network Yacht Brokers is a co-op of independent European yacht brokers who share industry information, marketing, legal, and IT listing resources that enable each office to provide the best professional-client yacht brokering services backed by international expertise and experience.

Thirteen brokers from 19 offices in Europe and the United Kingdom attended, with a further four offices attending by Zoom. 

Group Chairman Ray Flowers of Blackrock Yachting in Chichester updated the members on the latest development and enhancements with the group IT platform, which is the yacht brokerage management software tool used by each office and unique to the Network Yacht Brokers group. Update on the latest developments with the multiple boat selling platforms utilised by Network Yacht Brokers is part of the group's USP of providing the widest possible marketing reach internationally. More exposure and more inquiries result in more sales for our clients.

Hugh Mockler of Crosshaven Boatyard (Network Yacht Brokers Cork)

Member Peter Norris who is also Chairman of the professional group ABYA (Association of Brokers & Yacht Agents), updated the group on various industry issues and developments.

With international and cross-jurisdiction yacht sales and purchases the norm in the Irish market, Network Yacht Brokers are best placed to ensure a secure and successful purchase or sale for their clients.

Call Hugh Mockler at Crosshaven in Cork Harbour at 086 2546123 or Ronan Beirne at the Dublin office at 086 2543866 for a conversation about preparing your yacht or boat for sale or your requirements if looking for a suitable vessel.

East Coast Yacht broker Leinster Boats is offering four racing yachts all ready for the 2023 season.

Click on these links below for details of each boat:

• First 31.7
• J109
• First 35
• Sigma 33 OOD

Call Ronan Beirne to view these or other vessels on our list www.Leinsterboats.ie or to discuss your requirements.

Leinster Boats is a member of Network Yacht Brokers International and your broker on the east coast.

Leinster Boats Principal Ronan Beirne is a member of the Association of Brokers & Yacht Agents for professional yacht brokers you can trust.

Orkney Boats has appointed Leinster Boats as their new approved export sales and service dealership for the Republic of Ireland.

Ronan Beirne of Leinster Boats is on hand in Dublin to act as a liaison between Orkney and customers in Ireland, assisting with not only the import formalities with customs and VAT on behalf of new owners but also helping to oversee the safe arrival and handover of each new boat to Ireland.

A new Orkney Fastliner 19 into Ireland

Last week saw the delivery of two new boats, Fastliner 19 & Series 11 592, for customers in Ireland.

Leinster Boats are part of the Network Yacht Brokers and are a fully accredited member of the ABYA and have experience in all aspects of marine Sales and brokerage, and are able to offer independent and professional advice, 

Check out the range of Orkney Boats here

The pre-Christmas period has been an active advent for Leinster Boats, with yacht sales completed as the year closes.

Recent December sales include a Sigma 33 Offshore One Design. Beneteau First 310 offshore prepared. Feeling 1090 cruising specification and Hanse 342 cruiser racer. Happy buyers have their plans set for the 2023 season, and sellers are planning their next purchase.

Leinster Boats are part of Network Yacht Brokers International, providing a pan-European network for buyers and sellers.

Contact principal broker Ronan Beirne on your requirements or to discuss the sale of your vessel.

Advice on importing and exporting yachts and boats, VAT, registration and delivery logistics in this post-Brexit world.

Ronan is a member of the Association of Brokers and Yacht Agents located on the east coast and will provide the best-dedicated service efficiently and professionally.

Call Ronan on 086 2543866 09.00 – 20.00 seven days.

Wishing all our clients and the Afloat community fair winds for 2023.

East Coast Yacht broker Leinster Boats is offering four Beneteau First yachts, all afloat and ready for winter racing.

First 31.7 at €38,500

A 2003 Beneteau First 31.7 is for sale at €38,500. The all-rounder for club racing and coastal cruising, this boat comes with tiller steering, the preferred option for dinghy sailors, and allows for more space in the cockpit for crew seating after a passage or race. 

A 2003 Beneteau First 31.7 for sale at €38,500

Full advert here

First 35 at €99,000

2010 Beneteau First 35

This Beneteau First 35 was built in 2010 and is designed for comfortable cruising while adaptable for racing. She comes with a comprehensive programme of upkeep to include annual hull polish, bottom stripped and re-epoxied 2021. EU VAT paid. Priced at €99,000

Full advert here

First 310 at €25,000

2022-built First 310

This spacious fast First 310 cruiser racer has a deep keel with bulb and spade rudder. This popular design has been optimised for racing performance. Spacious cockpit with wheel steering. Aft boarding & bathing platform. Priced at €25,000.

Full advert here 

First 31.7 at €42,500

2001-built Beneteau 31.7

Another example of this ideal cruiser racer with a racing class in Dublin Bay and with a cruiser finish.  Two cabins, double berth aft, double berth forward and two settee berths. Galley, chart table and heads compartment. Volvo diesel. This boat has 2022 Dublin Bay podium results.  

Full advert here 

Call Ronan Beirne to view these or other vessels on our list or to discuss your requirements.  Leinster Boats is a member of Network Yacht Brokers International and your broker on the east coast.  Leinster Boats principal Ronan Beirne is a member of ABYA for professional yacht brokers.

The recent announcement that Nordic Clinker or Clench Timber Construction - as practised by several classic boat-builders in Ireland - is now receiving UNESCO Heritage Recognition has caused understandable pride among those who own one of those beauties, craft such as the Mermaids, Shannon One Designs, Castlehaven Ettes, and Dublin Bay Water Wags, to name only four.

But the new recognition has also led to added interest in other boats such as the Rankins which are undergoing a steady revival in Cork Harbour, and were built by the Rankin brothers in Cobh using the edge-glued plywood plank lapstrake technique. To a casual observer, they may look to be clinker built. But they’re not, as the essence of clinker is the clenching or clinking of the athwartships steam-bent timbers, tensioned home using copper rivets.

Yet the Rankins are handsome and very effective boats, so in fairness to them it would surely be more appropriate to use the American term “lapstrake” to describe their build method. Apart from anything else, it’s a much more attractive word in itself than clinker, as clinker suggests the ash-pan under an old and smokey stove, whereas lapstrake immediately suggests the lapwing, an extremely elegant wader patrolling the shore of many a charming estuary.

One of the advantages of the Rankin is that it has a clean interior, uncluttered by those cross-ship timbers which define true clinker construction. Yet the Rankins obtain more than adequate hull strength through the fore-and-aft strakes created by the overlaps, and this s something which is repeated when a standard clinker-built hull is used as the mould to build a fibre-glass dinghy which is arguably clinker, yet isn’t plagued by those endless little corners with which any re-fitter of a classic wooden clinker dinghy will know only too well.

Such people, having spent hours cleaning and sanding and then cleaning again before painting or varnishing the multiple separate sections in their pride-and-joy’s bilges will tend to regard glass fibre creations of clinker-built boats as phoney, which incidentally is a word that ancient Irish has contributed to global English. Yet at this time of year, when long and painful hours labouring in the bilges of wooden clinker-built boats is the prospect face by many classics owners, a “phoney” glass-fibre lapstrake boat suddenly becomes a very attractive proposition indeed.

Thus it’s no surprise that this characterful 2006-built 12ft glass fibre lapstrake sailing dinghy of the Wagtail class has come to the market with Leinster Boats at the rather ripe price of €4, 750. That’s almost €400 per foot, but a quick look at the price of new boats, and a thought or two about the fact that the only woodwork in the Wagtail - some very attractive trim - is extremely accessible for ease of varnishing, and you begin to see things in a more realistic way. In fact, the boat sells herself - all you need is a private harbour or slipway beside some appropriately attractive and un-crowded sailing water. Details from www.LeinsterBoats.ie