I see a lot of boats for sale… Hardly surprising because in a bad economy/faux recovery world there are simply a lot of folks who can’t afford to have a boat. So, as a result, a lot of them are selling them for pennies on the dollar. For us, dear reader, this is no bad …
Someone wrote and asked me what I thought of an older Columbia 34 selling for cheap the other day… It’s not a bad boat at all. Of course, being cheap with an asking price of less than $7K (around 62-cents a pound) makes it a whole lot more interesting as well. Even if you needed …
The other day I noticed there was a Bolger sharpie for sale up in Alaska on Craig’s list… It got me thinking. First the idea of buying a boat for cheap up in Alaska, sailing it around for the season, and then selling it or even giving it away makes for an extremely cheap five …
I like cheap boats… Truth is, if I see two boats for sale, one a beat up old CAL or some such and a pristine Swan or Hallberg Rassy, I go right to the beater. I suspect the reason behind it is the cheap fixer-upper gives me a sense of freedom… My dad used to …
There’s a Columbia 26 for sale locally and I row past it just about every other day… The seller is currently asking too much, it’s beat up, and will take (maybe) too much work to make it an economic project at its current asking price. That said, it’s still one of the great small cruising …
Every once in awhile a reader drops me a line with a good deal he’s seen on a boat and yesterday it was an Irwin up in New Haven… … that was going for less than $3000 and, from the looks of the picture, a pretty good deal. Of course, there’s a catch. Every boat …
I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the Westerly Centaur… For one, it has that sort of clunky everyman thing going for it which is kind of refreshing. It’s not sleek, has zero pretensions, and looks just like you’d expect a budget sailboat for the masses to look. Which is some kind …
Over at Estrellita 5.10B (always a good read) they have a great post concerning fear and it got me thinking… As it happens, I was also trying to digest just why a thread about the possibility of a $15,000 bluewater cruiser over at Cruisers Forum irritated me so much. I’ve gone on record that I …
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The other day I was looking at a very nice CAL 28 for sale… Sure, it needed a bit of work but nothing $1000 and a few weeks of part-time work wouldn’t take care of. For the record, it was selling for $1500. I mention this because there are lots of similar boats just waiting …
