G'day Jeremy... welcome aboard.
A little bit of
advice from someone who bought a yacht on eBay, sight unseen...
Yachts are built to be sailed in, not to sit in
ports to
rot away.
A lot of would-be sailors
rot in port along with their
boats that they are forever upgrading, fixing, etc etc...
Find your
boat, and as long as it has adequate
safety equipment... just go sail the f***a, that will tell you what needs to be done to make it good for a longer voyage.