"DSK" wrote in message
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Yes, but that's out of Sudsy's price range.


Maxprop wrote:
But not out of mine. If we decide to buy her, Bubbles won't have
bragging rights any longer. It's not exactly the boat we're looking for,
but I'm half tempted to buy it if for no other reason than to shut
Bubbles up. g (for a while, anyway, until he buy a new minivan or
camera or something).


Don't do it. There's a Baltic out there with your name written on it.

The Baltics we've examined seem to fall into two groups--1) beat to Hell,
and 2) pristine with an astronomical price. Nothing in between. We flew to
Annapolis a month ago to look at three, but only got to see two as one owner
was cruising in his. The first was impressive, but priced so far over BUC
that we'd never be able to recoup even a decent fraction of our investment
when parting with it. The second was so severely neglected that it would
require in excess of $75K to bring it back to reasonable condition. Of
course the brokerage misrepresented the second one ("very clean and
well-maintained"), and told us the absent boat would be there as well. So
much for those idiots.

Last week I drove to see another one near Chicago, but it, too, was in sad
shape with lots of equipment stripped off and sold, apparently. No
spinnaker pole (!), no sails beyond the original, blown-out main, genny, and
a torn spinnaker for which there is no pole (!), and a mount for KVH
instruments, but no instruments (!). And a big, gaping hole where a propane
stove/oven once resided. Price was okay, but the boat disappointing.

We're still looking, however.

Max