In article .net,
Maxprop wrote:
The Baltics we've examined seem to fall into two groups--1) beat to Hell,
and 2) pristine with an astronomical price. Nothing in between. We flew to
Annapolis a month ago to look at three, but only got to see two as one owner
was cruising in his. The first was impressive, but priced so far over BUC
that we'd never be able to recoup even a decent fraction of our investment
when parting with it. The second was so severely neglected that it would
require in excess of $75K to bring it back to reasonable condition. Of
course the brokerage misrepresented the second one ("very clean and
well-maintained"), and told us the absent boat would be there as well. So
much for those idiots.

Last week I drove to see another one near Chicago, but it, too, was in sad
shape with lots of equipment stripped off and sold, apparently. No
spinnaker pole (!), no sails beyond the original, blown-out main, genny, and
a torn spinnaker for which there is no pole (!), and a mount for KVH
instruments, but no instruments (!). And a big, gaping hole where a propane
stove/oven once resided. Price was okay, but the boat disappointing.

A friend of mine just bought a B44. It's in decent shape but did need
some work. He single-hands it out here. I believe there's a pic of him
on a previous version of Latitude 38.

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