I saw a Columbia 34 MK2 for sale on CraigsList for $500 OBO. Obviously a boat that needs a lot of work. Still, a tempting project for someone who wants head room and doesn’t mind some sweat equity to get it. More about the Bill Tripp’s Columbia 34 MK2’s in the not too distant future.
PBO (AKA Practical Boat Owner) has been a great resource for me since I first started reading the magazine in 1980. While, these days, I feel their subscription rates are now akin to piracy but their website still has excellent content. For example, this simple how to rehab a sailboat article is just what most …
Hunter has something of a bad reputation that, for the most part, is undeserved. Which is not to say that there were not some boats with issues but from where I sit all boats have issues. Hunters were all made to a price point as all boats are. Building and selling boats has always been …
I came across an ad on Craigslist for a Newport 30 that made me wonder why Newport boats have fallen out of favor. As I recall, the Gary Mull designed Newport 30 was a pretty nice boat. A bit more beam than most at the time with a simple but very comfortable interior. Fact of …
Here’s something from Boat Bits in 2011… I’ve been looking at the boats for sale on Craig’s list recently… It helps if you use Search Tempest which allows you to search all of Craig’s list rather than just one at a time… Anyway, there are a lot of good boats for cheap and cheap is …
So, what is an affordable boat? While the prevailing wisdom appears to be that a boat should cost everything you have and more I’ll suggest a somewhat different formula… If you can’t pay cash for it and the required needful work, it’s too frelling expensive. Fairly simplistic is it not? For those who don’t quite …
Regarding budget and a couple of points that should have been on my list… Read More »
How big is it? It’s a question I hear all the time regarding boats. When I answer giving it’s displacement people tend to look at me as if I’m speaking a foreign language. Most people, when confronted with the task of choosing a boat think in terms of length, Which, considering that a lot of …
A very long time ago we were rafted up in Honfleur and got invited to have tea and cookies on a Westerly Tiger. It’s a nice memory of a half-dozen people chatting about boats inside a very nice, small boat. As it happens, I saw a Westerly Tiger for sale up in Seattle for $1K …
I get a lot of email pointing out that, as far as some are concerned, a good cheap boat is nearly impossible to find. So, let’s look at a good cheap boat… The boat in question is the first boat that caught my interest in the PNW Tempest search of Craig’s List for sailboats. Three …
and in the “no good cheap boats out there” department… Read More »
An Albin Ballad project worth checking out…
