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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:12:08 -0400, rhys wrote:
On 27 Apr 2005 04:33:25 -0700, wrote: I am definately thinking smaller (and feeling wealthier). Well, you have that part exactly right. Smaller is cheaper and cheaper still on a per-foot basis. When I got my 33.5 footer in 1999, I was squarely in the middle of boat size at my club. Six years on, and I am at the high end of "small" and 27 footers stay unsold for months and go for what is in my opinion a song. It's a great time to buy a 25-30 foot late '70s-1990 boat, I think. A friend here can't move an updated race-winning '84 Newport 27 (essentially a C&C 27) for $15,000 Cdn., which is about $11,500 U.S. I agree that under 30' is a real buyer's market these days. There are lots of sail away options at under $10K. Frequently, the only problems are old, sometimes original sails and/or tired rigging. You can say that as you will need to buy these items, you wish a discount. Frequently, you'll get it and then some, and with new sails and rigging on a dry, tight, well-maintained boat, it's essentially new at 15%-20% of the price of a comparably new boat...if you can find anyone making a 30 foot or under boat that isn't a pure one-design. The idea is that you get to buy a better boat for less, and then do a major gear upgrade at once, given that the hull and systems are either good or gone, but you'd probably change the sails anyway. There is also a really enjoyable process in going out to buy a whole bunch of new, cool stuff that makes it much more *your* boat than just taking delivery of the whole package. Ryk |
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