For this boat $75K plus another 50K to add on all the cruising gear - solar panels, HF radio, wind vane steering, etc and fixing up the usual problems a boat of this age has, ie replace batteries, water tanks, plumbing, wiring, etc......
Ok...so it's not exactly a give away but have some seen some bargains while in the marinas here. 27' Catalina for $1500 and a 36' Islander for $6000. Being boats they're always gonna be bottomless pits for throwing money into but at least it starts out cheap.
Don't know where the bargains are on the net, the brokers mainly list there and are too savvy to show what sellers are really prepared to go down to. Try Yachtworld.com
For the old geezer, 20 bucks...just to make sure he goes to a good home. He runs on about 2 gallons of scotch a week and tells lawyer stories non stop but never tells the same ones twice which is quite something for an 80 something year old.
Crew? Marriage? Ummm.... can you sail? fillet an eel? tie a bowline one handed? No? Neither can my current crew
Oh well!!
