katysails wrote:
Jim,
Maybe you had best charter. You're looking upon buying a boat as purchasing a thing, rather than an experience. Maybe you should set your sites lower and buy a small sailboat that is inexpensive so that you can start from scratch and develop the experience...


Like a new Mac 26M for example? As was discussed in the earlier string,
one option would be to buy a small boat and continue to charter larger
boats from time to time.

Jim

Him asked: Like a new Mac 26M for example?

NO! Don't nuy crap! I thought you were trying to be fiscally =
responsible???? Find an old, well-kept Catalina or O'day, or Pearson or =
Erikson....Don't ever buy new, the depreciation is horrendous...and you =
have to put all the "stuff" on yourself....get a boat that someone else =
has already outfitted....(stay away from yellow Coronado's with mauve =
interiors, though...you'll never resell it)=20

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