Well, this is certainly depressing, I'd sleep better if there were a few more folks like Grayson in the House, and the best cruising blog post I've read in ages...
A long time reader wrote the other day and mentioned that he'd leave his cubicle behind in a heartbeat but he can't afford a new cruising boat and just does not feel that a DIY project is doable. The bottom line is that for some reason or other he thought he'd have to pay at least $100K for a boat...
Now, maybe I'm not always clear on stuff but I'm pretty sure that if you've been reading Boat Bits for a while you should have twigged to the fact that we're of the cheap seats persuasion here and we don't think you need to spend no stinking hundred grand to go cruising.
For those who have difficulty with my English I'll repeat the important part in Esperanto...
"Ni estas el la malkara sidejoj persvado tie kaj ni ne opinias ke vi bezonas elspezi neniu fetoran cent grandioza iri transepto."The guy in question wants a 28-30 foot boat pretty much ready to go so what do I come up with in fifteen minutes?
How about a 1985 Pearson 28 footer in really good shape that you could spend a couple of weeks and maybe a thousand dollars (at most) tricking it out to full on cruiser mode so all you'd have to do is provision and simply point the boat into the sunset? Oh, the asking price (with dinghy/outboard included) is a paltry $15,000.
Not a fixer upper but a ready to go boat for a whole lot less than that $100K. The point is, there are so many good deals floating around that pretty much anyone can go cruising if they want to.
The Pearson is a design that could take a couple pretty much anywhere they wanted to go in both safety and comfort. I know I'd be more than happy cruising such a beast over to Europe and the Med and back again...
Listening to The Watson Twins
So it goes...
