What would you buy for $100,000?

[jimmytc]

I love my Beneteau 373.
I picnic anywhere.....especially dockside.
I don't have to suffer to enjoy sailing.....

[rshepley]

I think Benehuntalinas are fine, if you are blind and like sailing in boats that look like clorox bottles

[zz4gta]

welcome to last year...

[hynes57]

[QUOTE=serenity4u2;369710]Originally Posted by SHIMSHON
2500 shares of Bank of New York!! Then with the profits buy my boat for $195,000.

Ignore that advice... Just look at merl Lynch and worst lehman...lol.../QUOTE]


Note that the "buy Bank of New York shares" advice was given in 2001, long before the sub-prime fiasco and recent bank failures.

[CruisingWolf88]

I saw a nice Catalina 36 on Yachtworld the other day for something like 95000, I'd recommend a Catalina, they are great cruising boats. I've got a 1988 Catalina 30 tall rig that I cruise around the great lakes, Georgian bay area.

[Bilikin]

Read a lot of books by the folks that have sailed around the world... Pardey's, Hiscocks, etc. If you are doing the ICW, you need a boat with a mast less than 50 feet, a draft of less than 5 feet and a beam of less than 10 feet. You will also need to consider the maintinence, docking, repair and upkeep costs. So buy a boat around $30-40 K that is in great shape, has new sails and new motor, lots of new electronics and put the rest of the money in a market fund to fund your cruising life style. (Bigger is NOT better, more expensive is NOT better, shinney and lots of 'comfort' is NOT a better boat).

[TQA]

As this is a 10 year old thread the OP should have bought something a few years ago!