Hi Pearce, I think I know the review you mean. It came out a short while after my purchase and was an excellent affirmation of the choice I made. She is a far better boat than I am a sailor and will happily cope with far worse than I'd dare go out in. More thoughts spring to mind: check the mainsail reefing is free-running. There are quite a lot of lines involved and I've had to work hard to free up some of the pulleys/sheaves at the base of the mast and under the coachroof where they are led aft.
A baggy mainsail will jam, so factor that into your offer. I was probably unlucky and didn't spot it in time, but the wire to rope halyard for the foresail, being in the same place over the masthead sheave for so long fractured and came down inside the mast, dumping the sail on the foredeck mid trip. These rope/wire halyards are likely to fail in such a fashion eventually so they are worth checking. Crimping a new eye on to a good part of the wire rope is no hassle for a yard, but if the halyard has come down there is the added hassle of getting it back in position.
I've seen here that the raw water inlet strainer (mounted on the seacock) is quite fragile and can fail - the rather unique design could be difficult to replace without a redesigned, more modern system.
I'm sure more might come to me, but lest I put you off, these are minor niggles in an otherwise bomb-proof design. Biggest criticism? Lack of storage space in the saloon (after all, those windows have to come from somewhere). Biggest boon? A heads you can actually use without crashing into the walls all the time. Second-biggest boon? In-mast reefing. Some may hate it, but infinite reefing from the companionway steps is a massive safety and ease of use factor.
One thing to note: E33s have quite a high freeboard, so getting from pontoon to side-deck is a bit athletic...