Boats Less Than $30K Recent Noteworthy Finds

[SuW]

Originally Posted by Celestialsailor

...and we know how projects go...

Yep, we're now "finished" after 12 years of buying a fixer-upper*. Unless you keep moving with it, something happens and that's the end of it.

*We replaced or renovated everything, except the sails and engine.

[CaptWho]

45 ft sailboat 1977 - $5,000 (Oak Harbor WA)

https://skagit.craigslist.org/boa/d/...362493065.html

[hpeer]

Originally Posted by SuW

Yep, we're now "finished" after 12 years of buying a fixer-upper*. Unless you keep moving with it, something happens and that's the end of it.

*We replaced or renovated everything, except the sails and engine.

Ours was “cruise ready”, and we have cruised the entire Eastern sea board from Labrador to Grenada. HOWEVER we have spent a ton of money and effort on the boat. In part fixing things the surveyor missed, fixing things the “professionals” did, keeping up with maintenance, and improvements.

I totally agree that the proper way to consider maintenance on a live aboard sailboat is as a “tolling refit.” You are never done, just somewhere between 1 and 12 months behind the curve.

[CaptWho]

1982 Erwin 34.5 ft. citation - $2,000, Panama City, FL

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/370363767914272/?ref=search&referral_code=marketplace_search&refer ral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3A8a62404 a-aeb7-46d7-a071-bacfb1702705

[ben2go]

Originally Posted by CaptWho

1982 Erwin 34.5 ft. citation - $2,000, Panama City, FL

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/370363767914272/?ref=search&referral_code=marketplace_search&refer ral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3A8a62404 a-aeb7-46d7-a071-bacfb1702705

Gone! Must have sold quick.

[SuW]

Originally Posted by ben2go

Gone! Must have sold quick.

4000 lbs of lead will fetch $2K.

[CaptWho]

1972 C and C - Huge Interior TOUGH AS NAILS Perfect Island Cruiser -Circumnavigate in Comfort
With only a few days left, this could be one to watch. It might go for a reasonable price.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/20355361524...4AAOSwDzZhEEwB

[SuW]

Originally Posted by CaptWho

1972 C and C - Huge Interior TOUGH AS NAILS Perfect Island Cruiser -Circumnavigate in Comfort
With only a few days left, this could be one to watch. It might go for a reasonable price.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/20355361524...4AAOSwDzZhEEwB

"...With a few weekends of restoration and recommissioning this fine classic cruising yacht will easily be a $40,000 to $50,000 vessel again..."

Oh man, talk about false advertising. The thing needs totally gutting; probably all the wiring redone, plumbing, hatches. ports, tanks etc., running rigging, standing rigging, sails (probably), canvas, woodwork, cushions...Not to mention the mushroom farm. And what are all those weird shotgun pellet marks on the hull? And the smile on the port beam?

[ramron67]

I really, really, really wanted to buy this boat:

It is a Parkins Marine built Herreshoff H-28 sloop. The guy who owns it, bought it two years ago, but never sailed it due to deteriorating health. It is on the hard on his property in NH.

The boat needed a good cleaning inside and out, but it is in very nice cosmetic condition otherwise. The standing rigging looked new and everything seemed great. I got very excited to have found a diamond in the rough, but in the end I did not buy it.

I had a surveyor come out and he found that the deck coring had deteriorated over most of the cockpit area, including under the winches and on the starboard side of the cabin.
Despite the low price of the boat, that would have been too much work for me to fix on my own, but perhaps this could still be a deal for someone else out there...

[Don C L]

Originally Posted by ramron67

I really, really, really wanted to buy this boat:

It is a Parkins Marine built Herreshoff H-28 sloop. The guy who owns it, bought it two years ago, but never sailed it due to deteriorating health. It is on the hard on his property in NH.

The boat needed a good cleaning inside and out, but it is in very nice cosmetic condition otherwise. The standing rigging looked new and everything seemed great. I got very excited to have found a diamond in the rough, but in the end I did not buy it.

I had a surveyor come out and he found that the deck coring had deteriorated over most of the cockpit area, including under the winches and on the starboard side of the cabin.
Despite the low price of the boat, that would have been too much work for me to fix on my own, but perhaps this could still be a deal for someone else out there...

Welcome aboard ramron!

[Celestialsailor]

Originally Posted by SuW

And what are all those weird shotgun pellet marks on the hull?

Probably shotgun pellets after his girlfriends father found him...

[CaptWho]

It definitely needs a ton of work, but if the price doesn't go up much, it might be worth it for someone. The thing that did concern me was that support pole that's located near the galley. It's not under the mast, so there's just cabin top above it and that part shouldn't be sagging. Could it be that it's just something to brace on while using the galley?

[CaptWho]

Sailboat 43’ ketch - $29,000 (Lottsburg VA)
Nice looking Irwin, but where are the interior pix?

https://annapolis.craigslist.org/boa...362982939.html

[SuW]

Originally Posted by CaptWho

It definitely needs a ton of work, but if the price doesn't go up much, it might be worth it for someone. The thing that did concern me was that support pole that's located near the galley. It's not under the mast, so there's just cabin top above it and that part shouldn't be sagging. Could it be that it's just something to brace on while using the galley?

Give it up, Captain! That boat is perhaps marginally above being a derelict.

I'd be prepared to bet that the "missing genoa" blew itself out on the furler. And there's a suspicious strand of shredded fabric poking out from under the main sail cover.

[SuW]

Originally Posted by SuW

Give it up, Captain! That boat is perhaps marginally above being a derelict.

I'd be prepared to bet that the "missing genoa" blew itself out on the furler. And there's a suspicious strand of shredded fabric poking out from under the main sail cover.

On second thought, it is a derelict. There's a scum line about a foot high in all the compartments. This thing has either been sunk or filled with rainwater.

She's dead, Jim!