Old crap kitchen:
New Shiny Kitchen:
I'll get a better set of photo's shortly if y'all are interested. This is about 50% completed. It actually is completely finished and is a wonderful improvement over the previous collection of junk.
Anyway this is supposed to be a sailing blog and it got off track, do to well, massive depression would be a good way of putting it. Yours truly does not do well unemployed for serious lengths of time. It's BORING! And I'm a lousy house keeper. Anyway we started looking at boats again a few months ago, as I am now employed again and have been for the last year, almost to the day. So in that year we paid off all of our consumer debt, ran some up again, and are almost free again. Finished up the majority of the house projects, only have the master bath to complete. So that part is sorted. But more importantly we have some savings. For the first time in my entire life I have a cushion. I'm not going to go into details here, but we have made some amazing changes in our financial outlook for the future. Maybe enough to be able to actually do the thing. So we are back to looking at boats. Because simply everyone knows that throwing scads of money at a hole in the water is an excellent retirement plan.
We go out once or twice a month to look at various boats around the area. We have gone as far south as Hilton Head to see a wreck, well not a wreck as it is still floating, but a 75% complete project boat passed on that one but I'm still keeping my eye on it. We are currently looking at two boats, a Cheoy Lee out in Gloucester and a floating wreck out in Lancaster, VA. The S/V (name withheld so I don't trigger web searches) is amusing in one area, when we were looking a few years back I got enamored with her when I stumbled across her listing and just loved her. Then to find her up for sale again? Well that just seemed like kismet. So we looked, did the research, remembered how great a set of boats that builder made, read a bunch more in general, etc. Just doing due diligence. Chatted with the broker, made an appointment and we were off and running again. Issues, well quite a few really. But first a little back story. Owners had fallen in love with her while she was on the hard in Maine, sailed her to her current yard, put her on the hard again and started a massive refit. The man of the two then got eye cancer, who knew your eyes could get cancer? Of course it ran directly up the optic nerve and killed him. So boat is on the market again, however the surviving spouse has no money left after investing in the boat, cancer treatments and all the other things that are required in this wildly expensive thing we call life.
So to the issues:
- Masts
- Spruce and have been sanded and then painted, white. Not a good thing to do to wooden masts. Counter intuitive I know, but paint hides a great deal of possible issues with old wooden masts.
- Mast location:
- Laying on a wonderful steel rack some 100 feet from the boat. Yeah they need to be stood up then the rigging has to be ratted down and the sails bent back on. Issue? 6k in work, and the yard has to do the majority of the work as it requires stuff like cranes, knowledge, etc.
- Rest of boat:
- Hey this is a "as is where is" boat purchase
- Does anything work? There are a great number of installed systems on a modern sailboat, and they all cost an arm and a leg to replace. Was the water maker properly pickled? Does the engine work? Are the tanks in good condition? Sails? Dinghy? Dinghy motor? And on and on.
- Deck
- She has a cored fiberglass deck and just wandering around a found a few mushy spots, not good, not good at all. Usually indicates that the cores have gotten wet and rotted, leaving just the "glass", remediation is intrusive and can be expensive.
- Price:
- For an "as is, where is" the boat in my opinion is over valued.
- Hull
- Been in the water for a very long time
- No maintenance to said hull, could be 99% rust under there for all we know.
- Huge amount of growth on hull
- Are the zincs even attached to the boat?
- Sails
- Yes they have sails attached, all need restitching and the mizzen has a tear. But they will need replacing sooner rather than later.
- Masts:
- Extruded Aluminium, no gross corrosion I could see, a few deep gouges
- No real issues to a cursory inspection
- Standing rigging
- Stainless steel wire rope, normal looking, would need a formal inspection.
- Engine
- Might as well not have one, needs replacement. In fact it would be better if there wasn't one at all, cheaper to remove nothing than pull an engine out of a sailboat.
- Gen Set
- Old Panda Generator
- Haven't heard anything good about them
- Is old with no maintenance so will need to be replaced.
- Water Maker
- Don't got one
- Solar panels
- Nope none of those either
- Lines, etc.
- All will need to be replaced
Later my seven faithful followers.
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