#boatsforsale – Is 2013 the season to get into boating? If so the Afloat Boats for sale site has a great selection of new and used yachts, dinghies, motor cruisers, RIBs and speedboats for sale on the Irish market. Here's just a few listings to get the saltwater flowing in your veins...

A Beneteau First 25 is an ideal starter boat for the family. She comes with a lifting keel, 2012 10HP outboard, 4 wheel road trailer, 5 berths and an excellent suit of sails.

A full displacement hull makes this well built pilothouse Sul Lee Fisher 23 a strong and steady boat with a big reputation for sea worthiness.

An early sixties wooden classic speedboat is one of the most interesting boats to appear on the site for a while. It's a Broom Javelin Mk 3. All original, including two tone seating upholstery and in perfect order.

Finally, a Bavaria 33 Cruiser was built in 2007 and was launched and commissioned in August 2008. She has had light use from new. Her inventory includes lazybag, furling genoa, sprayhood, full cockpit enclosure, Colour chart plotter, 6 berths, hot water, fridge and more!

A 2010 Quicksilver 640 pilothouse with a Mariner 4 Stroke 100hp outboard engine with a five year warranty. The boat comes with a Road trailer.

More boats on the left or click to go to the boats for sale site.

#boatsforsale – Looking for a great performer for club racing or a chance to join the growing Quarter Ton Fleet in time for the European Championships in Ireland 2013?

€13,750 gets you the professionally refitted Quarter Tonner Supernova that has an impressive list of victories including the 'Boat of the Week' title at the 2011 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Week. The boat is also a frequent top performer in Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) leagues. The boat has been dry sailed over the last five years and wintered indoors.

It's not the first competitive quarter tonner to come on the market in recent times either. Last year Kinsale's Ian Travers sold his similarly well priced top performing 'Bandit' after posting it on the Afloat Boats for Sale site.

All the details on the full Supernova Quarter Tonner advert are on the Afloat's Boat for sales website

#boatsforsale– Crosshaven boatyard has just reduced the price of a 1982 Beneteau First 32 on its books from €25,900 to €19,900 which broker Hugh Mockler says reflects 'excellent value'. Full details of the yacht are on the boats for sale site. The yard also says the boat has been well looked after. She comes with a 28HP Volvo diesel engine. Loads of sails including furling genoa and pretty much ready to go afloat. Full advert here.

#BOATSFORSALE – The 1995 Maxi 1000 for sale through Crosshaven Boatyard in County Cork has been reduced from €72,500 to €69,500 She is in excellent condition accordinhg to the broker and can be viewed out of the water in Crosshaven. Full advert here.

#BOATS FOR SALE – In excellent condition, ready for more offshore sailing and now with a big reduction in price this Valiant 40 "Swiftsure" has been reduced by €20,000 down to €97,900.  Brokers Crosshaven Boatyard say she is very competitively priced against other Valiant 40's. Full details on Swiftsure are carried on Afloat's Boats for Sale site.

#BOATS FOR SALE – Sadly for sale but for someone else to enjoy the owner of a Westerly 33 is finding the sailing cruiser too much of a commitment these days and is downsizing so the boat is for sale on Afloat.ie. The Northern Ireland based boat is on the market for £33,000.

The owner has had 'Goosewing' for about fourteen years now and cruised her extensively around the west of Scotland, Isle of Man and coast of Ireland.

In her previous ownership she did the ARC from Tenerife to Caribbean then back to the Med right to Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Italy and back to UK via the Canal de Midi.

She is well fitted out for blue water cruising with extra fuel and water tanks plus many other mods.

The Westerly 33 is one of the most spacious boats ever produced. she has proven sea keeping qualities which makes the Westerly 33 one of the most sought

after comfortable long distance cruisers.

For the full spec click: Westerly 33 for sale

#BOATS FOR SALE – A 2005 version of an Aquador 28 sports cruiser is on the market through Fitzgerald Marine of Kinsale in Co. Cork.  This Finnish made boat is a popular model in Ireland thanks to the pionneering efforts of distributors MGM Boats who showed off the boats suitability of the robust hull to rough Irish waters when they first imported the Scandinavian craft more than a decade ago.

The Fitzgerald marine boat at €99,000 is less than half the price of a new boat. The 28 is the largest hard top boat in the Aquador range and a bigger example of the 26 Hard Top. Aquador always make a big play about the feeling of space  below deck and while this is true it is the practicality of the all weather hard top, the proven hull and wide walk-around decks that makes the Aquador 28 so safe for family use and thus so appealing for Irish boaters. Full advert here.

See all our motorboats for sale on the Afloat Boats for Sale site

#BOATS FOR SALE – Under the heading 'Boat (still) For Sale' the owner of the Beneteau Oceanis 411 'La Chacharoona' 'has had a few nibbles from his advert on the Afloat boats for sale site but alas so far no bites.

'Plan B' for the owner is to offer a quarter share in the vessel because he has 'less time than originally planned to visit her'. The hope is cruising sailors fed up with Irish weather will see this as a wonderful opportunity to buy in to Med cruising. She is based in MDL Marina's new facility in Sant Carles de la Rapita on the east coast, where berthing and maintenance fees compare favourably with Irish rates.

All the details and photos of La Chacharoona are here.

#BOATS FOR SALE – Irish yacht brokers MGM Boats are having a pre-season stock clearance sale of Jeanneau power and sail boats. Prices on a range of new boats have been generously discounted with prices quoted including Irish VAT, delivery and commissioning. For example a 32–foot Sun Fast 3200 sailing boat was priced at €147,000 but is now on sale at €89,000 with 'no hidden extras'.

The brokerage firm headquartered in Dun Laoghaire has been active over the winter period at key international boat shows and attended the Dubai Show in the United Arab Emirates last weekend. More here.

Six of the discounted craft now on offer in the Spring stock clearance sale are shown below. The boats are also advertised in the Spring issue of Afloat and a PDF of the current advertisement is available to download below.

#BOATS FOR SALE – Irish yachts and boats are on sale in Dubai this weekend thanks to the efforts of one Irish dealer seeking new markets for new and pre-owned Irish pleasure craft in Europe and around the world. 

Enterprising broker Gerry Salmon of MGM Boats is in the Middle East this St. Patrick's weekend attending the Dubai International Boat Show. The Dun Laoghaire firm who specialise in international yacht brokerage have spent the winter months working hard to sell clients boats at foreign boat shows.

This morning His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, visited the exhibition at the Dubai Marine Sports Club. MGM are the sole Irish exhinitor. The show features over 20 superyachts of the world, 33 regional launches and 9 global premieres from some of the most prestigious names in the boating industry. MGM are Irish agents for the prestigious UK Sunseeker brand.

Not content to limit themselves to a depressed Irish market the go ahead firm headquartered in Dun Laoghaire harbour attended established shows in Southampton, London, Paris and Dusseldorf as well as Helsinki. This month the yacht broker moved its stand from the Stockholm Boat Show to United Arab Emirates and the 20th Dubai event.

MGM's Gerry Salmon in St.Patrick's day mode at the Dubai Show today

Reporting from the show yesterday the firm's managing director Gerry Salmon said he has 'plenty of product on display and he has found good sales opportunity on the international stage'. 20% of the Dubai show-goers are UK ex-pats. 430 yachts and boats valued at Dh960m (€200m)

The Irish firm has a proven track record in the brokerage industry over the past 30 years. It offers a professional and efficient service to all of our buyers and sellers. They have established bases in the UK, Ireland and in the Mediterranean through Broker affiliates.