Hello guys,

I'm at a crossroad with my boat search. I'm running around in circles and not moving forward. Hopefully I can get some opinions and get moving forward.

I've been sailing my Noelex 25 trailer sailer for the last few months up the coast and finally reached the Whitsundays. I want a bigger, more capable boat and I'm happy to continue with this cruising lifestyle. I have a budget of $200k. I'd like an ocean cruising boat.

Here's where I'm stuck....

I can really buy a boat anywhere in the world. I know there's many costs if I came back to Australia with it, but if it was in the med then I'd just hang out there for the season and go further to carribean which could easily take a couple of years anyway. So buy a boat here or overseas?

Next I thought about buying an inbetween boat here. There's plenty of larger older boats available for $50k or whatever. I could enjoy that on the coast here for some months then I'll have a better idea on what I like too. Not sure on costs involved with this, rego etc plus what I may lose trying to sell it again after some months.

Hope someone can help out with that.

Otherwise recommend me some boats for sale. Something around 40ft.

Josh