Jere Lull wrote:

Ante Topic Mimara wrote:

Skip Gundlach writes:

While it's apparent that you've got a very long learning
curve ahead of you (it seems you haven't any background
in boating so don't know what to specify), the other
responders haven't made your life simple.


You are correct when you believe I have no background
in boats, for I have never even stepped on one, except
for small open ones like 10-12 foot long boats, like
rowboats and such. Why it is so difficult to get clear
answers from people is not something which I understand!
I would have believed everyone would be stepping all over
themself to show me things to research, but not a lot of
this has this happened. I have read from several, of things
which I should go and read, but everyone uses this strange
new terminology and this jargon. Is there a good online
dictionary of yacht-language? If it is so, I should go and
use it, so that I can know these same terms.

I see we all got off on the wrong foot. Let's try again.....

Now there is something wrong with my foot? I see you are making
a joke with me! LOL!

From what I recall in the thread, you and your (wife?) are
completely new to boating, are looking a powerboat with an
aft cabin for under $11k, are on some narrow river you want
to cruise up and down, and may sometimes go on the ocean.

This is something like what I was looking for. Aft Cabin is not
critical to my wants, but could be something I would like, as I
have seen one on the internet that I liked.

That's more than we knew at first, but still not enough to
give you useful information.

What more information could you need? I am looking for a boat
in feet between 25 and 40, that can go in a river (meaning it
must not sit too deep in water) yet can follow a river all the
hundred of miles or so to the ocean. I do not believe I need
two engines, as that means one could go bad, and would be twice
trouble. Diesel, or gas, or alcohol fuel is unimportant, do you
agree?

If you tell us more of what, where and who you are, we can
help you better. For instance, which river (we may know it)
and how far up and down it you want to go, what you want to
do at first (stop at marinas, cruise in little side creeks,
just be on the water....) how often you'll be staying onboard
overnight, and anything else you feel comfortable saying about
your dream. The more we know, the better job we can do.

The river is not important. You may pick any river from Miami
to Maine, and all are the same, as far as I am thinking. I
am afraid of the hackers to know who I am, so I do not think
I will like telling people who I am. Who am I is important in
what way to me knowing what types of boat should I look at?

I know I cannot go past a certain point up the river, not that I
want to go up the river (a funny joke!) and I know that at the
other end is a very large ocean city with lots of boats.

I am thinking that on nice weekends, I may want to take a boat
down the river a hundred or more miles to where the ocean is,
so that we can eat a dinner in the town by the ocean. Also, we
will stay on this boat on other weekends, but not on every
weekend there is. In the springtimes, we may want to go out on
to the coast, and go to other cities on the ocean for two or
more weeks. By looking at maps, I see many big cities very near
by to the end of the river I live near, and all from Jacksonville
Florida to Philadelphia Pennsylvania are within the reach of
what I am thinking as a major springtime trip of two or three
weeks time. Are there not places along the coastline where I
could stop the boat for food and fuel and other things such
as these?

I am also thinking that this trip kind is in years, two or more
away from me. I know that I will have up to one years that I
will have to clean and tidy up boat, and fix any things that
need to be done, and another years and a few month plus that
I will have to get used to being on the boat up and down the
river, and maybe going to the ocean and back in a weekend.

As for staying on the boat for over nights, I have a house and
this is where we sleep when normal, but with a boat, we will
stay on the boat on some nice weekends, when it is not cold
or too hot. In the number of weekends in one year, we would
probably want to stay on the boat perhaps one or two weekends
for every month of a whole year. If it is hot, do boats have
the conditioner of air? This is another thing I do not know,
but I have seen where some boats have hook up to power on shore,
so would that be how the conditioner of air would have power?

Is this the right things I need to think about how I will learn
to use the boat, and what I should do with it?

You see, we all probably have had friends that have been in
your position, that got a boat and immediately "ran" before
they knew how to walk. Most times, the mishaps were merely
amusing afterwards; some were potentially dangerous.

Perhaps I should not go to boating as a hobby then. It seems
like everyone is telling me I will die in a shipwreck.

A friend of ours went out for his first sail with us and
within 3 months (no more experience), got a $6k boat of dubious
condition (he overpaid) and immediately went south towards the
islands. Luckily, he had enough minor mishaps early on that he
learned to slow down and learn what he was doing. He sure had
a lot of funny "experience learned" stories when he flew back
from Florida 6 months later.... (We could do the same trip
in 3 weeks.)

I thank you for writing your message to me. Maybe I should now
think about not buying a boat if it is unsafe and dangerous.

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