Buying a boat? Look overseas
After having owned a Danish Junior (5.60m in mahogany) my first proper ‘yacht’ was a Pionier 10, a 32ft Van de Stadt Design from 1974. I sold her to a Swedish buyer who I met years later while sailing a Navy Mine Hunter in the Baltic. Her lines were still beautiful. The second yacht was a one-off steel longkeeled design from the drawing board of Mr Koopmans Senior from 1989. I bought her from a Belgian seller in the beautiful city of Brugge. In 2018 I sold the Koopmans to a German buyer. After little more than a year the need to go sailing again became too great and I bought the third and current yacht, a Nicholson 35 from 1976 from (again) a Belgian seller. Only recently I was able to buy a copy of the C&N drawings from an Italian seller and a book of about 200 years of C&N designs from a Usa-based seller.
The reason I am telling you about my experiences is to show how international the industry is. If you are in the market to buy or sell a yacht and especially when it is not a yacht being built in large series but a more specific design, then have a look abroad. The internet will facilitate your needs and is making the market very transparent for, in principle, all designs ever made. Good luck and good hunting!