a blast from the past...

Here's something from Boat Bits in 2011...

I've been looking at the boats for sale on Craig's list recently... It helps if you use Search Tempest  which allows you to search all of Craig's list rather than just one at a time... Anyway, there are a lot of good boats for cheap and cheap is no bad thing!

Of course, the boat market seldom has any real rhyme or reason and I have always believed that boat pricing is more often pulled out of a hat on a whim rather than something arrived at through much thought on a boat's real value, but when you think about it, this is an advantage as at least half the time folks are selling boats for far below their value.

For instance, there are currently a couple of Irwin 28's on Craig's List (one in NC and the other in California) going for $2500 and $4800... The Irwin 28 is an excellent and highly underrated shoal draft pocket cruiser and more than capable of crossing oceans in the pursuit of taking you wherever you want to go. Sure, it is a little boat but little boats don't cost a lot to keep going and a small boat has petite problems... There are lots of boats like this on Craig's List including a bakers dozen of CAL 34's  (sister ships to "So It Goes") ranging from $2600 to $20,000...

So many boats, so little time...

In this economy, what people are asking for a boat and what you have to pay (providing you have cash) are not quite the same thing, so it stands to reason you can get these boats for even less, maybe even a LOT less.

Then again, you could always wait till your ship comes in, win the lottery, take advantage of the email in your inbox from Nigeria, or have a rich aunt pass away and leave you her fortune so you can buy that new/hip/expensive boat the editors of Cruising World are all drooling about. Then again maybe your luck with such things is better than mine.

Go now, or maybe never... The choice is up to you.