I wouldn't pay $3500 for that boat, considering how much work needs to be done. You could probably spend just a bit more and get a boat that was in ready-to-sail shape, and save a considerable amount over what that boat is going to cost you. Based on my experience, the price differential a boat that is in ready-to-go shape that is the same make and model as one that is in "project" boat shape will be far less than what you sink into the "project" boat, and you'll be sailing, instead of working on the boat.
As for the boat... not familiar with that specific boat... but if you're planning on making bluewater passages in it, make the water and
fuel tanks fairly large, since insufficient tankage is a serious limitation on a bluewater boat.
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New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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