LESS THAN £10K
That a popular line of wooden, clinker-built cruising yachts came to be built at the dawn of the GRP age is something of a surprising success story, but that’s precisely what happened in the example of the Finesse 21 and 24. There is, in fact, little mystery to it, their popularity due at least partly to cost. We see, from early examples of Classic Boat that still carry ads for these yachts, that a new 21 cost just £12,500 (inc VAT) in 1990, little more than a new Ford Sierra at around £11,000. Today, a new Mondeo, the Sierra’s successor, costs about £22,000; try ordering a newly-built 21ft wooden yacht for that price!
You might imagine then, that the Finesse was a cheap and cheerful “rowing boat…
