Thanks for all the replies everyone!
More photos
can be found here.
We made an offer of $8K last night. We thought we were kind of lowballing them, but after hearing everyone's opinion, it may not even be worth that!
Could we make a condition such as he has to pay for the haul-out/cleaning/painting as well - to kind of make up for our possible over-bid?
This one has a newer engine put in in 2007 I believe, and new standing
rigging from 2012; would that make it a little above average and perhaps in the 8-10K range? Or still less than that do you think?
Oh crap, I never thought of this. Should I contact
insurance companies first and ask if they’d insure it? Has anyone ever had this problem? Will the insurance companies deny you based on its age or its condition?
I’m thinking the
broker and owner might just get offended or something and tell me off lol. But we did offer $8K thinking we were low-balling, but it appears it’s not even worth that.
Oh yes, we’re aware of these things. Although there are tons of older boats, there doesn’t seem to be many capable-of-going-offshore-later-on sailboats that we’re going after. 90% are Catalinas, C&Cs, etc with spades/etc. We’re looking for something stronger and more
seaworthy to handle long-term cruising. And there’s not a lot around
Vancouver especially in our price range (under $15K).
There didn’t seem to be any
water damage anywhere else, just leaking from the
bowsprit - but no soft spots or
delamination I don’t think. But a surveyor would be needed to be sure, of course.
How difficult/expensive would it be to fix that leak, assuming there were no soft spots? Is it just unbolting the
bowsprit and resealing/re-caulking?
So much conflicting info. “Stay away”, “Go for it”, haha. But yeah, we’ve heard many good things about them. We feared they'd be too slow for the
PNW, but slow and safe is okay to us.
More photos can
be seen here. They were taken from videos we took, but they’re better than nothing.
This must be our 15th viewing in over a year. We're scared sh#tless to be honest haha. Very afraid to pick the "wrong boat" or a boat that'll need twice its purchase price to even get going. It's a little terrifying.
We've only been in
Vancouver for just
oven a year. We don't really know many people here, let alone anyone with a sailboat, so right now our sailboat experts are you guys!
But we do learn more each sailboat we view.
Damn, we already offered $8K. Could we retract it, or maybe ask if he additionally pay for the haul-out/cleaning/painting or something?
Couldn’t we find a second-hand headsail and maybe have it recut for not too much?
The 2013 insurance
survey didn’t find any soft spots or
delamination. We couldn’t find any either, we checked around the leaks, too. I thought I read somewhere that Raswson 30s didn’t have cored decks?