On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 07:44:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/18/2017 9:13 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:32:24 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 3/18/17 1:03 PM, True North wrote:
No survey allowed?
My buddy in the BVI says there are lots of boats available there at a good price.
Maybe I should sell mine and buy a sailboat down there to use as a cottage in the winter months.
Not only does my buddy have his 'Six Pack' skippers license but he also has a surveyors license which could come in handy if I was looking for a boat in that part of the Caribbean.



What you will get with a large boat of that vintage is an never-ending
list of serious, expensive repairs that need to be made.

That is pretty much true of boats in general if you do not do the
maintenance yourself. Older boats just have more stuff that will not
have a warranty and may have been ignored too long, perhaps years too
long. In that regard, I don't think I want an old boat from the
Caribbean. That is where old boats go to die.


First thing I did when Mrs.E bought the 80's vintage Grand Banks was to
have the service department at the marina replace every single through
hull fitting that was below the waterline. Not cheap.


A hole in the hull below the waterline sounds more like what you want
to do in a war to the other guy's boat ;-)
I suppose a couple are necessary with inboards but I don't like the
sound of it.
When I think of Caribbean boats I see old fishing guys cobbling up
parts from whatever is handy and usually using a Yamaha with a hole in
the ownership records and no serial number.

On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 07:44:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
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"When I think of Caribbean boats I see old fishing guys cobbling up
parts from whatever is handy and usually using a Yamaha with a hole in
the ownership records and no serial number."


Not necessarily, my buddy lives on a Hughes 32 that was found high and dry inland after a hurricane.
He did have to scrounge for a new (to him) motor and some rigging but he's had it for a number of years now. A couple of years ago he bought a 'project' Boat from another friend in the BVI who got tangled up with an American woman who took him back to the US.
Vic uses the 2nd boat as his storage shed.
He also has a 3rd sailboat...a 19' daysailor he sometimes used to give sailing lessons to tourists.

On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:06:47 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:


On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 07:44:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
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"When I think of Caribbean boats I see old fishing guys cobbling up
parts from whatever is handy and usually using a Yamaha with a hole in
the ownership records and no serial number."


Not necessarily, my buddy lives on a Hughes 32 that was found high and dry inland after a hurricane.
He did have to scrounge for a new (to him) motor and some rigging but he's had it for a number of years now. A couple of years ago he bought a 'project' Boat from another friend in the BVI who got tangled up with an American woman who took him back to the US.
Vic uses the 2nd boat as his storage shed.
He also has a 3rd sailboat...a 19' daysailor he sometimes used to give sailing lessons to tourists.

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I've seen guys like that living off in the mangroves with a ton of
stuff piled on deck covered with a tarp. I call it one step from
homeless. Put a couple of them together and you've got a floating
trailer park.