HALF PRICE GLOBAL CRUISER W/ OWNER FINANCING AVAILABLE – Huge Luxurious Interior

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Beautiful Interior. Needs re-commissioning and shakedown cruises and varnish. Motor Winterized. This is a Sparkman And Stephens designed Global Cruiser with a Pedigree and an owners association with their own website. Typically these amazing vessels sell for 35K to 60K. This one is available for about half of its fair market value and I am offering owner financing with a reasonable down payment. Call me to discuss all the details about this fine cruiser. It is the perfect size for a couple to cruise the world. Sails extremely well. Big enough to be luxurious inside and to be a full time global residence but still small enough to manage easily with a crew of two. Call me to discuss the options.
Will 970 319 6408
WHO
YOU ARE BUYING FROM
We
are serious blue water ocean sailors with thousands of miles and many
years experience offshore and doing coastal cruising. It is our
passion to help other people discover the sailing lifestyle, and
especially the more serious cruising lifestyle.
Sailing
is typically considered a rich man’s sport, and it certainly is if
you pay full price for everything and make the necessary investments
in proper off-shore equipment and a safe “Blue Water Capable”
vessel in turn key condition. However, there are ways to make this
lifestyle possible and affordable to middle class people and retirees
who dont possess a three million dollar investment portfolio. But
doing that properly and safely and knowing where to find your savings
and where to “not skimp” is the knowledge that can sometimes make
the difference between catastrophe or pleasant exploring once you set
out on your adventure of a lifetime. We are passionate about sharing
our knowledge and helping people discover this amazing
lifestyle…and doing so in a way that keeps them safe, happy and in
the black.
We
already have our keeper boat and don’t need another one, but every
once in a while we discover through our friends and connections at
boatyards, marinas and marine insurance companies a boat that is a
terrific bargain that isn’t getting the love and attention and
exercise that it deserves, and we will try to help find a new home
for it. This is one of those rare boats.
If
you want to call me and discuss your cruising or sailing plans and
dreams and whether or not this boat might actually work to suit your
needs I will be happy to speak with you and give you my honest
opinion about the feasibility of your plans and whether this vessel
might or might not work for you. Feel free to call and chat.
WILLIAM
AT 970 319-6408
IF
A PHYSICAL INSPECTION IS A REQUIREMENT FOR YOU PRIOR TO MAKING
PAYMENT, THEN INSPECTIONS SHOULD BE MADE PRIOR TO THE CLOSE OF THE
AUCTION AND PRIOR TO PLACING YOUR BID.
PAYMENT IS DUE IN
FULL WITHIN 24 HOURS. SEE PAYMENT TERMS.
MOVING
A BIG SAILBOAT WITH A BOAT MOVER CAN BE VERY EXPENSIVE. OFTEN $4 OR
MORE PER MILE.  I AM HAPPY TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE OPTIONS IN
THAT REGARD IF YOU WANT TO GIVE ME A CALL. By far the most affordable
way to move a sailboat is by water, so please consider whether your
location is accessible to move the boat by water or whether you will
need to pay the higher cost of having it moved by truck and trailer.
Also consider the time it will take to prepare for a voyage and
whether your sailing skills or those of friends or other sailors you
might find through the yacht crew websites are at the level necessary
to make a safe voyage from the ocean where the boat is located to
your home port.
AND NOW IF YOU AREN’T YET TIRED OF
READING A FEW INSIGHTS TO SHARE ABOUT BUYING BOATS AND CHOOSING THE
RIGHT BOAT FOR GLOBAL CRUISING:
A
little about what we do:
Our
passion is to assist folks who are making a transition from day
sailing or coastal cruising to becoming full-time live-aboard world
cruisers. We also assist new sailors who are just getting into the
sport of sailing by advising them on how to develop their skills and
how to make plans to pursue the dream of cruising and world traveling
full-time.
We
have extensive contacts and resources for finding good world cruising
boats at far below their fair market value, and occasionally we
discover an amazing neglected vessel at a price that we know may
enable a cruising family or a retired couple on fixed income the
ability to pursue the dream of cruising without the sort of means and
savings normally associated with pursuing this lifestyle.
In
those cases, like this boat, we work to try and find a new home for a
good “below market value” boat, with people who will fully
restore the vessel, and hopefully use it for the serious cruising
that the boat was designed for.
There
are many aspects of life where experience really matters, but none so
much as global cruising. When you are planning to take a small boat
across vast oceans and visit foreign ports of call on your own terms
you must truly learn to become Master’s of your Own Destiny. It
doesn’t matter how wealthy you are or how talented you are at
managing large organizations or companies with dozens of staff
people.
When
you are on a boat in the middle of the ocean, the choices you have
made, the choices you will make and your own internal skills and the
undeniable truth of how well or poorly you have planned for your
expedition, are the factors that will determine whether your
experiences become a positive adventure or a frightening (or even
life threatening) catastrophe.
When
you are looking at a boat parked peacefully at a dock or on jack
stands at a boat yard, you will be tempted to judge it based on
whether the lines are nice and whether it is pretty or ugly and
whether it is new or old and well kept or run down.
The
ocean however, operates according to immutable laws of physics. The
ocean does not care whether it sinks a pretty boat or keeps an ugly
one floating. It does not care whether you are a skilled sailor with
dozens or years experience under your shade hat or whether you are an
amateur on your first weekend pleasure cruise. You will be served
exactly the same conditions of wind and waves whether you were born
wealthy or if you were raised in a cave by baboons.
The
only control you have over these situations is knowing when to sail
and when not to sail, and you can prepare yourself so that when the
wrong situation strikes, if it ever does, you are skilled and
prepared to deal with it and have a vessel that is prepared to handle
the same.
For
people who are wanting to go cruising full-time, or who want to go
from being pleasure sailors to competent seamen and seawomen,
choosing the right boat is the first and sometimes ultimately most
important decision of their nautical lives.
Of
course you can always sell or trade a boat and then buy a different
one, but still the choice of each boat will influence the experiences
you have and it will determine in many ways the capabilities or
limitations of what you can or can’t do while you have that boat for
your home—even if it is only home for a few weekends here and
there.
There
are many nuances and subtleties to sailing, as well as to each
individual vessel. A boat that may be just exactly perfect for one
sailor or family of sailors, may be completely the wrong boat to suit
another person’s dreams.
By
nature, boats require a lot of maintenance and upgrades, and if you
are someone who wants all the possible bells and whistles, boating
can be a very expensive occupation.
However,
there are also ways to save a lot of money and still pursue the dream
effectively and safely and create a new floating paradise for
yourself. But each person or each couple’s needs are different.
There
is no such boat as a boat that is not a project boat.
A
cruiser friend I know well (a relatively wealthy man at the time)
purchased a brand new Beneteau 46 for his family to live on for years
and to cruise the world on, the first thing he did to a brand new
half million dollar boat was to spend another $27K on equipment
upgrades, new electronics installations and custom modifications.
No
boat, no matter how shiny and brand new, is exactly right for
everyone’s individual tastes and needs, and no boat comes straight
from the factory completely ready to do anything other than Wednesday
afternoon beer can races.
I
often get asked by people who are shopping for a used boat to go
cruising the world, “Is this boat ready to cross the Atlantic?”
or “Does it need anything before it is ‘Ready to Sail.”
The
very nature of that question is a showcase of their naivety. Even if
the answer were “Yes, the boat is ready.” (which would be
impossible to have any boat ready unless you have spent thousands of
dollars on a cruising chandlery and provisioning service ahead of
time) the greater question is “Are such ignorant sailors who need
to ask such questions ready themselves?”
Even
if they had the absolutely perfect boat, prepared ahead of time by
die-hard professionals to get it ready to cast off the lines and sail
to points distant and exotic, would the sailors know where everything
is at on the boat and how to operate those systems and how not to
break them with ignorant mistakes or how to fix them once broken? And
if they knew all those things, would the boat be equipped with the
necessary repair tools and supplies as part of the process of getting
it ready to sail?
So
all these are big questions, and the only easy answer is that any
sailor must become intimately familiar with their vessel prior to
making long voyages beyond sight of land. The easiest way to become
familiar with a boat so that it is not a stranger but rather a
trusted old friend is to do a lot of weekend coastal cruising with
it, while you work all the bugs out. Also, the more projects and
upgrades you do yourself the more familiar you will be with how they
work, how to maintain them and how to fix them again if anything
every goes wrong. To depend on the expertise of professionals left
behind in a port in a distant country you cleared out of months ago
is only to invite future disaster…and its also much harder on the
wallet.
So
any time you can add to your own skills and knowledge of your own
boat by doing your own work, or hiring a professional to help you do
it yourself, you are preparing yourself for future success as a
cruiser.
Any
boat, even a brand new boat, will have things about it that you want
to change or upgrade or move or install prior to making long voyages.
The
better questions to ask are:
“
What
is the proper amount of maintenance and upgrades that I will make to
my vessel prior to setting sail?
How
many things need to be changed or fixed before I leave the
continental US?
How
many projects will I work on, as little projects along the way, when
I have a slow day at a boring anchorage and there are no cruiser
parties to attend and no interesting conversations of the side
channels of the VHF.
How
many projects are absolutely vital to get accomplished before I begin
actively using the boat as a full time residence and a floating RV
that can sail to any country with a coastline?”
How
many projects do I want to tackle myself if it means I can save
literally tens of thousands of dollars on the purchase price of a
boat, and how much more ultimate value do I get for my money by
buying a larger or more seaworthy boat with a few bigger projects to
tackle than if I buy a smaller or more flimsy boat that is cleaned up
nicer and has fewer problems to address. (Remember the ultimate
cosmic law of boating – even if you can’t see any problems at all
with a boat, and no projects needing doing, as soon as you own it and
begin to sail it, you will start to find those quirks and bugs) So
don’t fool yourself into believing that you can simply buy a shiny
new boat from a broker at full market value, or even by paying more
than boat blue book value, to avoid ever having to make repairs or
upgrades.
Any
experienced sailor or boating professional other than someone selling
fancy new boats will admit to you that there is no such boat other
than a “project boat.” The only question is “What are the
projects and how much money will I save by doing them myself versus
hiring someone else to complete them?”
Every
boat that I have ever bought or ever sold, which is now many dozens
of them, had varying degrees of things needing to be improved about
it. Even the brand new boats straight from the showroom floor or boat
show sales dock will need bottom painting and new zincs and fuel
cleansing treatments and oil changes and manifold and riser
inspections within a matter or months of casual weekend use.
The
longer any boat sits without the proper level of loving regular
maintenance the faster it will deteriorate, and tiny 15 minute
projects will turn into hour-long projects and hour-long projects
will turn into day-long or week-long projects due to continuing
neglect.
The
quality of the build is also important. A cheap boat will have cheap
boat problems, and it will have serious issues far faster and more
frequently than a very well built boat from an esteemed yacht
designer and builder even if the better boat looks worse initially.
In
many ways you are better off to buy an older and more well regarded
vessel in worse “first impressions” condition than to buy a shiny
and well kept cheaper new boat. In the long run the better boat will
cause far fewer headaches once you have it restored fully and you are
taking care of it yourself, whereas the cheap but glossy boat may
still look new and shiny for years, but begin having serious and
costly problems that cannot be seen even while it still looks great
in Facebook boat pictures.
Boating
is like riding a horse or driving a high performance sports car. You
always have to be involved in the life of your boat whether you use
it frequently or not.
But
this is not a bad thing, because it is part of the pride of
ownership, and the regular maintenance and upkeep and small projects
is what enables you to avoid the big ones or to at least know which
big ones you need to do sooner and which ones can wait till later.
—
As
you will guess by now, I’m a bit of a philosopher sailor when it
comes to helping folks find just the right boat to serve their needs.
I
am currently writing a book on that very topic which will be called,
“The Seven Questions of Cruising (or) the Seven Questions you
should ask yourself before buying a Boat.” Here is a quick preview
of the questions you should be trying to answer from the introduction
to my new book.
—
When
you go to buy a boat, especially if it is your first boat, there are
a lot of decisions to be made and hard choices to figure out.
Before
you begin searching for the correct vessel to serve your needs, you
need to first ask yourself, (and your cruising partners/ spouse etc)
some important questions which will help you immensely in the quest
to find the perfect small ship to suit your needs.
Question
# 1- Where do you want to sail to (now and also possibly in the
future)?
#2
– Who might be going with you and/or who might want to visit you
and stay on the boat with you once you get to that exotic foreign
port (if global cruising is your goal) or that incredible weekend
getaway spot (if weekend cruising is your thing).
#3
– How much do you want to spend on this adventure called
boating/sailing/?
Also,
how much “can” you afford to spend if you happen to take a wrong
turn with the adventure and “need” to spend more money to fix a
problem or get yourself or your stalwart side-kick (your boat) out of
trouble?
#4
– How handy are you? (i.e. – Are you someone who naturally takes
pride in your ability to figure it out yourself, or are you the
person who would rather call an “expert” and pay them to solve
whatever problem you are having?
#5
– How much time do you have to save yourself money, because in
sailing, as well as in life in general “time often equals money.”
#6
– Are you a weekend warrior and/or charter sailor, or do you want
to cruise full time?
#7
– Do you care more about Getting There or more about “Being
There” once you have arrived?