On Apr 1, 11:14*pm, "SteveB" wrote:
"Frogwatch" wrote in message

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On Apr 1, 11:59 pm, wrote:
On Apr 1, 10:42 pm, "Don White" wrote:

"wf3h" wrote in message

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If only they'd call me to pick one up...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/bu...1boats.html?em

Boat owners are abandoning ship.

Brett Flashnick for The New York Times
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They often sandpaper over the names and file off the registry
numbers,
doing their best to render the boats, and themselves, untraceable.
Then they casually ditch the vessels in the middle of busy harbors,
beach them at low tide on the banks of creeks or occasionally scuttle
them outright.

The bad economy is creating a flotilla of forsaken boats. While there
is no national census of abandoned boats, officials in coastal states
are worried the problem will only grow worse as unemployment and
financial stress continue to rise. Several states are even drafting
laws against derelicts and say they are aggressively starting to
pursue delinquent owners.

Those wacky 'mericans!
Wonder if anyone down there is trying to unload a seaworthy sailboat in
the
16-20 foot range?

I'll take a nice 30+ footer....... Something WITH a transom.

My daughter was president of the sailing club at the University of
North Florida. *So many people want to donate boats to them that thye
simply cannot accept them because they have no place to put them and
no way to maintain all of them.
These days, you can probably pick up a used 30' sailboat for nearly
nothing.

Trubble is, a lot of them require some rerigging, and depending on how
extensive, it can turn into a worse money hole than the average boat. *But
when you start with almost a free boat, it allows you more space to put
money in before you're top heavy.

Steve

Or, start with three or four free boats, and build using parts from
donors to make one, then haul off the rest