Berg,
on your budget, you'll need to see about 20 different boats, ignore colors and some smells. To get the most bang for your buck, you'll need to accept a boat that's either dirty and smelly with good sails/engine/rigging, or a boat that's clean but worn out in other respects. Pick your poision.
It cost us 3k to have ours moved from Tampa to
Houston. It's not worth your trouble to move one from
west coast to
east coast. There are literaly thousands of viable boats in florida. We looked at a
morgan 31 a few years ago that was clean and simple, asking
price was 24k we could have picked it up for around 12-15k.......if you really don't want to be in
San Diego, don't think about
buying there and trucking.