Feeling 29 Buyer's Guide
The Feeling 29 — originally sold as the Kelt 8.50 before the Kelt-to-Feeling rebrand — is a French fiberglass pocket cruiser designed by Gilles Vaton with Patrick Roséo and built by Kelt Marine from 1983. On the used market it shows up as an affordable classic, with around 1,200 hulls produced in the Feeling guise and lower Kelt-badged counts before the line evolved. Two keel types matter most to a shopper: a fixed fin drawing about 5.3 feet and a lifting iron keel that rises to roughly 2.1–2.4 feet, which changes both marina access and grounding habits.
Layouts on the Used Market
Most boats follow the standard plan with double forward and aft cabins, saloon settees, a galley, and a head, sleeping up to six in three areas. The interior is roomy for a 28-foot hull, so the variable to check is keel type rather than berth count: a lifting-keel example opens shallow creeks and drying berths, while a fin-keel boat behaves more conventionally under way and on the trailer or cradle.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Well-equipped examples commonly carry solar, an inverter, AIS, autopilot, and a chartplotter as standard modern cruising kit. For a buyer, the power-and-energy cluster (solar and inverter) determines whether the boat can sit on a mooring without shore power, while the navigation cluster (AIS, autopilot, chartplotter) signals a seller who kept pace with coastal routing and collision-avoidance needs. No other upgrades appear consistently enough to weight the decision.
What to Inspect
Inspection should center on configuration confirmation rather than known fault patterns. Verify which keel a hull carries, since the iron lifting and fin keels differ in draft and in corrosion exposure; check the keel trunk and hinge hardware on drop-keel boats, and confirm the skeg-and-rudder bond on fin-keel examples. Beyond that, a normal fiberglass survey and rig check cover the rest.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Typical markets are the Netherlands and Germany. For a buyer, the short list is: confirm keel type and its condition, verify the modern navigation and power cluster is present and functional, and judge the roomy cabin against your crew size rather than against larger cruisers. The boat rewards a light-air coastal sailor who values cabin space and shallow access over heavy-weather passage making.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Feeling 29. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 1 row
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26 | 1 | $28,917 | — |
Where they're listed
Feeling 29 listings appear across 1 country. Germany has the most listings with 1.
Country view
1 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | $28,917 | 1 | 1 | 100.0% |
Comparable models
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeanneau Sun Sun Odyssey 29.2 | 28.87' | $ 36,481 | 43 | 13 |
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| Feeling 29You are here | — | $ 28,917 | 1 | 1 |