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Mani – LM27 motor-sailer

Mani is a 1978 LM27 GRP motor-sailer built by Reese Marin of Aabenraa, Denmark. The company started out building speedboats in the mid-1950s, then expanded to sail. The LM27 was launched in 1969 and became Europe’s most prolific boat of its type. Some 1,500 LM27s were built until manufacture ceased in 1986.

This was a pre-purchase survey undertaken on the hard at Lochin Marine in Newhaven.

Having checked the condition of the hull, noting the Coppercoat antifouling finish,

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