I am in process of
buying a boat in the
Med right now. I had looked at trucking my
boat across the US and then sailing across the Atlantic but it became a logistics nightmare along with being very expensive. I finally decided that it was better to buy a boat in the
Med for around the same cost it was going to cost to re-position the boat from US
West Coast to the Med. The savings were in the following areas: 1) Didn't have to prep the boat for an
Atlantic crossing, 2) didn't have to pay to have the boat trucked across the US, 3) Didn't have to find crew for the crossing, and 4) didn't have to take the time off of
work to sail across the Atlantic. Because my
kids are now both teenagers I realized that if I were to wait to get our
West Coast boat to the Med that they would be out of HS before this happened. We had looked at getting a 40' boat and kept on shrinking till we are now going to close on a 33' boat. The plan is to spend as little
money on the boat as possible and then to resell it. No adding fancy gadgets. Use the existing
equipment give it some lipstick and then put it on the market after having used it as a floating condo for 4 or 5 years. We searched every online site that we could locate. Looked at boat from
Greece to the UK. It seems that the further east you go the cheaper the
boats are. We wanted to buy a boat in
Spain b/c that is where we have relatives but ended up
buying a boat in
Italy. I'll let you know how it all works out but we are running into problems with de-flagging and reflagging. I am one of those do it yourself type boat
work people so I had to find a boat that did not need major work or else it wouldn't have worked out well. Paying someone to do work on the boat would have made it expensive.