Hey guys, just joined the forum. Wanted to introduce myself and ask a basic question about which
boat to buy... but first let me entice you with some
boat porn...
Currently its
for sale on craigs list. The boat is all custom. I designed and had my people build the custom pilothouse on it. I have 8k invested in
stainless steel and then loads of more expensive usual boat stuff... haha. Here's the link if you'd like to look at better quality pictures.
https://santabarbara.craigslist.org/...658907987.html
Anyway, I'm based out of port Santa Barbara CA. I
work part time as an urchin
tender, which means I help collect urchin commercially. I make weekly runs from 20-30 miles
offshore in my 17ft pilothouse boat across the santa barbara channel to the channel islands very often to
fish, dive, and enjoy life. I'm a long distance swimmer and was meant for the ocean. Unfortunately... my lust for boats has grown beyond healthy and am now compelled to circumnavigate the ocean.
So here is my question.. I need you educated, experienced salty
dogs to fire off a list of heavy, safe, comfortable sea worthy
blue water sail boats. My
budget is 40k. That means I have 30k for a boat and 10k to
refit the boat. I KNOW.. this is a low low
budget, but for an old boat.. can be done..
Boating is all.. CAN DO attitude. That extra 10k will be most likely replace the tank, in all likely
hood an
engine,
water system and
storage, many high end
batteries, ways to charge all those
batteries, I pray to not redo
rigging (possibly though), and many other things.
So.. if you guys could shoot off some old heavy duty sea worthy vessels from 33 to 45ft in the 40k budget I would appreciate that. Just those boats that are readily available across the US that everyone knows has that can do attitude. Like good old faithful tried and true. With my budget they will be 70's and early 80 models and I'm fine with that.
It will be me and my wife traveling and possibly some friends here or there. One thing I do require above else... Is an aft
bed in the stern. I wont pay all this
money to have my wife critical failure this opportunity because she's getting smashed to death in
bed on the bow.
Thank you for your time,
Cameron