Want To Buy: Wanted: 38+ liveaboard sailboat, center cockpit, aft cabin

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I'd recommend a Cabo Rico Tiburon 36 if you're set on a center cockpit. This is an above average quality boat that can be found in your price range. Of course at that price it will need work.

[captjcook]

Excellent boats, well liked...older...original owner! Asking 23k

https://moreboats.com/boats/hughes/h-38/31018


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Of course the Morgan Out Island 36 would work & is not too hard to find.

MORGAN OUT ISLAND 36 sailboat specifications and details on sailboatdata.com

[captjcook]

Sorry, wrong boat...thinking Hughes 82/20 typing 38 which is not cc.


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[skipmac]

Originally Posted by magellanyachts

So true. I am halfway through a six year project. A wise man told me:"When it comes to boats, if you think it will take a week it will take a month; if you think it will take you a month it will take you a year."
Especially old boats.
People forget that you have to pay moorage as well.

I found a way to beat the moorage cost. Had the boat truck to a place in the woods close to home and free.



It did add a few thousand for trucking and cranes and I still had to pay the yard for haul and launch.

[skipmac]

The comment you'll have to kiss a lot of frogs is very appropriate. A $20K budge is very, very small for a 38' + center cockpit in decent shape but miracles do happen. Have the money ready and be patient and you might find a boat in decent structural shape with terrible cosmetics and a desperate owner (or sometimes desperate wife or family of a deceased owner).

[MakanaBahama]

Wow....thank you for this, we appreciate the honesty. Oh boy...

[enrigenna]

hey I have a 42' project boat here in Costa Rica on the pacific coast.
1979 Ketch, sturdy Taiwanese costruction, long keel, center cockpit.
Rebuilt 100hp yanmar engine, and 70% of the work done.
If it might interest you let me know and I'll send you all the info and pics.

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by enrigenna

hey I have a 42' project boat here in Costa Rica on the pacific coast.
1979 Ketch, sturdy Taiwanese costruction, long keel, center cockpit.
Rebuilt 100hp yanmar engine, and 70% of the work done.
If it might interest you let me know and I'll send you all the info and pics.

Selling for US $20,000?

[mikemenza]

There are several O'day 37 CCs around the east coast at very reasonable prices..

[enrigenna]

yes I can sell it for 20K

[TheThunderbird]

Originally Posted by sailpower

Isn't it common "knowledge" that you can buy a 60k boat for 20k?

It must be true because I saw it on an internet forum.

There are some CC's out there for cheap but they are walkover models. Oday 32/37?

ODay sailboats for sale by owner.

Sure so, 20k upfront, 30k additional along a one-year full time effort.

Oday are great boats. I sailed one :-)

[Vasco]

Originally Posted by rfawcett

Larry and Lynn Pardey said it best 40 years ago:
Go small, go simple, go now.

Were they in a 20K boat?

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[TheThunderbird]

Maybe we are sybarites, but I'd put an end to idealising a couple which sailed fantastically in a boat we would not accept sleeping in on hook
When too much is too much...

If not, please go back to wax cotton, hemp canvas and oil lamps, before speaking up back again on this topic

We don't wear Garibaldi red shirt since a long time...

:-)

[roverhi]

Why center cockpit??? Unless you plan on long term guests or children, they waste the most commodious part of a boat which would be better utilized as other than cockpit/engine room.