I regularly peruse boats on Ebay (bored while traveling). This boat has
been on Ebay for a *long* time - re-listed again and again - and if
the add copy is to be believed, more than one seller has backed out /
couldn't finance / etc. Might be a fine boat, but it certainly makes me
wonder...

Keith Hughes

hpeer wrote:
Larry wrote:
Dan Best wrote in news:47a49137$0$36384
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I wonder how many amp hours it takes cook a meal on that magnetic
induction cook top.


Round numbers say 2Kwh... 2000wh/13V=150-200 AH off the house batteries.

The boat is setup for a POWER PLANT, not batteries-and-a-flashlight
hermits. Does't it have a diesel power plant? It needs one.

Noone's gonna run an electric stove off batteries....unless they're on
a submarine with some SERIOUS batteries. The recharging would drive
you crazy!

Power has to come from somewhere....

Larry

"Nothing is funnier than a yachtie with a new 4KW inverter carrying
his electric heater down the dock with a big smile on his face."

Dan and Larry,

You are on to the drift of my comments. I still like the monel hull,
material and shape, and some of the features. If you threw out half the
crap and put in a decent cooker and vane it would be a good boat. And
you don't have to cross the Pacific to get it to where it is.

My own boat, a Murray 33 by Ted Brewer is much simpler. But I have a
proper vane and autopilot, kerosene cooker, kerosene heater, Espar
diesel heater, and sea berths. No AC needed at 50N.

wrote:
I regularly peruse boats on Ebay (bored while traveling). This boat has
been on Ebay for a *long* time - re-listed again and again - and if the
add copy is to be believed, more than one seller has backed out /
couldn't finance / etc. Might be a fine boat, but it certainly makes me
wonder...

I found this on the Al Mason web site.
MASON 33/S S-065 1962 Aux. Sloop/Ketch Steel
32 ft-10 in LOD
24 ft-2 in LWL
10 ft-7 in Beam
5 ft Draft

This would seem to match up with the posted description.

hpeer wrote in news:47a4b3ea$0$14080
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You are on to the drift of my comments. I still like the monel hull,
material and shape, and some of the features. If you threw out half the
crap and put in a decent cooker and vane it would be a good boat. And
you don't have to cross the Pacific to get it to where it is.



Are you going to keep this boat in Singapore? The question about importing
it into the USA might be an interesting issue...or Canada.

hpeer wrote in news:47a5009d$0$14104
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1962

At that age, too, someone may have put an ultrasonic thickness guage to the
hull and found out how THIN it's gotten in strategic places after all those
years at sea.....

Larry wrote:
hpeer wrote in news:47a4b3ea$0$14080
:

You are on to the drift of my comments. I still like the monel hull,
material and shape, and some of the features. If you threw out half the
crap and put in a decent cooker and vane it would be a good boat. And
you don't have to cross the Pacific to get it to where it is.



Are you going to keep this boat in Singapore? The question about importing
it into the USA might be an interesting issue...or Canada.


I think I am slowly coming to my senses on this. I already have one
boat 1,200 miles away. Although there is something to be said for this
the is also much against it. 12,000 miles is just too far.

hpeer wrote in news:47a517d9$0$14099
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12,000 miles is just too far.


A very excellent point. Sometimes, even 10 miles can be too far....

On Feb 1, 8:25*pm, hpeer wrote:
hpeer wrote:
Joe wrote:
On Jan 31, 9:40 pm, hpeer wrote:
Probably just a pipe dream but..............

Anyone out there care to speculate on the delivery cost of a 36-foot
sailboat from Singapore to East Coast US?

Various methods:

Delivery Captain and/or crew???

By ship?????

Many thanks,

Howard

This one? I like it too.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/World...Sailboat-W-Mon...

Joe

Yeah! *Sigh!!!!!!!!!

Joe,

You have outed me here. *Now we will have the thousands of Newsgroup
users from all over the world competing for this lovely vessel.

Not so sure, had the whole hull been Monel then perhaps so. I have a
problem with a monel to steel weld at or near the waterline. I could
understand a steel cabin and decks as a way to cut cost, but to only
do from the water line up seems like a bad decision.

This boat is about 2 years too soon, I still need to work for at least
another bit before taking off.

In reality the only way to make this work is to think of it as an
opportunity, the boat is already where you want her. *Go to her and let
her carry you on.

That would be my choice, however the boats a bit small, and as others
have said has been on and off ebay several times. You'd have to go to
Singapore and make sure all is legit.


And, I already have a roughly similar boat, albeit steel and not monel,
in Newfoundland.

Enjoy it, live the dream. Don't sigh and dream about other boats in
far off ports.
If you must dream about getting a rust proof metal boat try to get
Asperita a 4 mm thick copper-nickel alloy hull buildt in 1967. The
link below even has the current owners name and address......Good
Luck!

http://www.copper.org/applications/c...boat_hull.html

Joe


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