A boat for sale…
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Boat buying
One reason I prefer cheap as they come boats part 1…
Dr House said something that anyone interested in buying a boat should adopt as their mantra… Everybody lies! Folks selling you a boat tend to lie. Folks who have something to gain in your buying a boat tend to lie. Even folks who are honest as the day is long tend to play fast and …
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A rule of thumb (or something like it)…
I have a CAL 34… Admittedly, it’s not really a CAL 34 anymore having done countless changes, modifications, and implemented schemes (which seemed like a good idea at the time) that just may have the late Bill Lapworth spinning like a top. That said, if there is an afterlife I expect that Mr Lapworth is …
Is $500 a good deal or what?
A CAL 27 for not a lot of money over at Sailboat Listings…
a neat little junk rig cruiser…
I’ve been watching this boat on the market for a while… and why it has not been snapped up in an instant is something of a riddle to me. Sure it’s small but back when we spent a year in the Canary Islands there was a Storfidra 25 with a young family aboard who’d sailed …
a niche market of sorts…
Since I’ve been working on the VolksCruiser project I’ve noticed a certain niche market in used boats. The upshot is that someone buys a dirt cheap boat that is not selling for pennies on the dollar and then cleans it up (as in just throwing away junk and some liberal application of soap and water) …
More on boat value or what the frell is a boat really worth anyway?
While there are lots and lots of good boat deals about, it would not be amiss to mention that the used market is a little nuts… Well, actually it’s just plain batshit crazy! So, here’s two nearly identical Columbia 26’s… One’s, apparently in better shape than the other but they are both in what I’d …
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Boat value and other illusive truths…
Doing a search on Craig’s List for a boat I didn’t find I came across a 26-foot bilge-keeled Westerly (I’m pretty sure it’s a Centaur) for $350 which, being an amazing price, seriously caught my attention… For anyone wanting to know the Westerly is in Annapolis. I have no idea what sort of condition the …
Everywhere I look…
Just about everywhere I look there are opportunities to get afloat in good boats for not very much… For instance, today over on Sailboat Listings there’s an Alberg 35 project boat with an asking price of $900. While it needs a lot of sweat equity and some money/materials thrown at it, considering that the lead …
In which we pay homage to a big influence…
Maybe you’re old enough to remember this… Then again, maybe not. That said, it is worth watching if only to focus your mind on the importance of vehicle choice where budgetary concerns are an important part of the mix. The VW was all about being able to drive on a sustainably small budget… It didn’t …