Whenever a hurricane looks like it might ruin my day/week/month/year I do a quick CraigList search of possible boats to buy because, you know, shit happens. Call it my plan B but in the event of losing the boat in a serious storm my plan is to get out of Dodge on the first available …
As someone who follows the used boat market fairly closely I’ll point out a few things I’ve learned about buying and selling boats… “No time wasters!” Nothing makes me want to avoid looking at a boat for sale than an ad that has the “No Time Wasters” text somewhere within the ad. In my experience …
So, since I’ve pointed out that the Newport 28 s a pretty good potential VolksCruiser, I’ve had no shortage of emails asking me why they should consider one vs some more expensive reasonable facsimile. Over in Washington state there’s a Newport 28 for $3.5K with an engine (though whether it works or not is not …
Sure, I know that there’s a helluva lot of peer pressure to adhere to consumerist dogma but, just for a moment think about what you can afford rather than what you think others will opine on what you need to spend to be accepted. I see a lot of folks selling the idea that “price …
As far as the R2AK was concerned there were only four boats I was rooting for. One of which, Loustic SuperSonic, was my favorite. Seriously, how you could not be engaged to the story of a couple buying an old Santana 20 sight unseen, arriving days before the races start, and having to get the …
So, there’s a 32′ Piver trimaran for sale in California with a listed price of $19.5K. From the looks of the pictures it’s in fairly good shape. Though no interior pictures or mention whether or not the inboard engine works. The boat was built in 1973. The basic equation of a cruising multihull for $19.5K …
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 …
I’ve mentioned before that one of my favorite small boats for cruising is the Haida 26. For those in the PNW there’s another one currently for sale that you might want to take a look at…
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 »
