I almost joined a partial ownership on a C&C 40 (early 80s as I recall).
It had a bunch of problems that I knew about (mostly electrical), had
the absolute **** for sails (but still sailed ok), then I found out it had
more serious problems... can't recall the details. Too bad to see a nice
boat in such bad shape. Would have taken lots and lots of $$ to get it
right.

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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Okay, everyone come clean....what's the worst boat buying mistake you
ALMOST
made?
For me, before I had a clue about good old boats....

I made an offer on a sad and rather homely looking Tanzer 26!
I nearly made an offer on an infamous Seidelman 25!
I looked at a early 80's Hunter 27! Holy weatherhelm!
I considered a tired Hunter 33! Zikes!
I nearly bought a Catalina 25 with bad decks and rusted keelbolts!

C'mon! I'm sure some of you have considered worse! No offense intended to
owners of the above. If it works for you, great.

RB