Hi!
I have to admit: I have NO IDEA about sailing. I even never WAS on a sailboat sailing. So here I am, asking you wise and experienced sailors for some brainstorming.
I know somebody who could sell me an 32'' Islander 1977 for $5000 (price between friends). The owner, my friend, had this sailboat almost unused in the water for over 10 years. The interior needs work, but mostly cleaning up from the owner''s "cumpulsive disorganisation and keeping disorder" (CDKD, ha ha).
But no matter, if I buy this boat or some other...... my question is this:
what are the costs of just hauling the boat out of the water and giving it an outside hull treatment (I don''t even know, WHAT treatment it needs! Do you?), so it won''t sink in the next few years? I know, I can''t expect quotes on painting jobs here, but can you just tell me, if your last bill of doing that hull treatment was about $500 or $5000 or....?
I don''t care so much about the inside or the engine or the sails of the boat, as I care about the outside condition.
Do you NEED to have a survey done before buying? I figure out, the boat was in the water the last 10 years, so it basically doesn''t leak if I don''t see water...right? And after the treatment outside the water it shouldn''t leak at all, right?
The boat would cost me only $5000, but I am not sure about the immediate costs attached to it. All I want is something that floats secure (could be my bathtub, but it''s a bit tight for 3 people there) and is tied up at the moorage. My budget wasn''t much higher that that ($5000) anyway.
Otherwise I was looking at an about 30'' sailboat to just have it docked in the place my family (me, husband, small child) uses to vacation. We figure out, weekly or bi-weekly live aboards are cheaper than a few nights in the only hotel in town
Conny, waiting patiently for advice...
P.S.
Both my husband and me have all time of the world to fix the boat up. We just don''t have the money to buy a nice 20K boat, ha ha. That is why we don''t really care so much about the messy inside.
I have to admit: I have NO IDEA about sailing. I even never WAS on a sailboat sailing. So here I am, asking you wise and experienced sailors for some brainstorming.
I know somebody who could sell me an 32'' Islander 1977 for $5000 (price between friends). The owner, my friend, had this sailboat almost unused in the water for over 10 years. The interior needs work, but mostly cleaning up from the owner''s "cumpulsive disorganisation and keeping disorder" (CDKD, ha ha).
But no matter, if I buy this boat or some other...... my question is this:
what are the costs of just hauling the boat out of the water and giving it an outside hull treatment (I don''t even know, WHAT treatment it needs! Do you?), so it won''t sink in the next few years? I know, I can''t expect quotes on painting jobs here, but can you just tell me, if your last bill of doing that hull treatment was about $500 or $5000 or....?
I don''t care so much about the inside or the engine or the sails of the boat, as I care about the outside condition.
Do you NEED to have a survey done before buying? I figure out, the boat was in the water the last 10 years, so it basically doesn''t leak if I don''t see water...right? And after the treatment outside the water it shouldn''t leak at all, right?
The boat would cost me only $5000, but I am not sure about the immediate costs attached to it. All I want is something that floats secure (could be my bathtub, but it''s a bit tight for 3 people there) and is tied up at the moorage. My budget wasn''t much higher that that ($5000) anyway.
Otherwise I was looking at an about 30'' sailboat to just have it docked in the place my family (me, husband, small child) uses to vacation. We figure out, weekly or bi-weekly live aboards are cheaper than a few nights in the only hotel in town
Conny, waiting patiently for advice...
P.S.
Both my husband and me have all time of the world to fix the boat up. We just don''t have the money to buy a nice 20K boat, ha ha. That is why we don''t really care so much about the messy inside.