Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I spied a late sixties '68 GB42 (don't know the exact year) this
morning when I was down south. Chatting with the yard owner, it
apparently has been retrofitted with relatively new Yanmar diesels -
180 hp each. He didn't know the hours, but it's probably somewhere
around 500 hours on both engines. I'm going down tomorrow morning with
the broker to look at it.

I know this sounds like heresy for a small boat, outboard guy, but I
really liked the look of the boat - for some reason, it looks
"different" than the usual GB - the boat just appealed to me.

Anyway...

Is there anything I should look for when prowling the boat tomorrow?
Anything peculiar to GBs? What should I expect for fuel mileage in
terms of gph?

Any advice would be appreciated.


A 68 Grand Banks is absolutely going to be a wooden boat. American
Marine began transitioning to glass in the 1970's.

I love wooden boats, but I wouldn't love to own one- particularly if it
is going to be kept in open rather than covered moorage. As you know,
most of your problems with a sal****er wooden boat will be above the
waterline- most of the time. It's that darn rainwater that you need to
watch out for.

Watch for the trouble spots outlined by others so far, and then look
very carefully for house and deck rot on that model.

Also, be sure to have your surveyor pull several fasteners in random
locations. You wouldn't want to know how many fasteners there are in a
42 foot wooden trawler. :-)