Ebay Fodder to dream about (or have nightmares)

[Noah]

I saw this, and it looks interesting...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2402389768&category=26433

I wish there were some better pictures.

Worms?

[Figment]

This guy must be flat broke.

I gotta think that if he could just scrape up the cash to get her into US waters, the selling price would increase by at least twice that cost!

[Rocky]

Wow, $7000, no reserve. What's the catch, there's gotta be a catch! My brother dared me to bid on it - with all this snow (another 6 inches today) it sure is tempting.

[ 02-07-2003, 10:11 AM: Message edited by: Rocky ]

[Wild Dingo]

Gotta stop lookin at US sites gotta stop looking at US sites gotta stop looking at US sites gotta stop... sigh

[Rocky]

I once read you can get a really good deal on a sailboat in the South Pacific, from Americans who loaded the wife and kids onto their brand new sailboat and headed out into the open ocean for the adventure of a lifetime, then dumped the boat and flew home when they got to Fiji or somewhere, never to sail again. The catch was that sailing it to North America was against headwinds all the way. Is that true?

[ 02-11-2003, 10:01 AM: Message edited by: Rocky ]

[formerlyknownasprince]

I was in Vanuatu last November (kids soccer trip) and was talking to a guy who had bought a 38' mahogany planked boat in Fiji for about $9,000 US. He was working on the motor, which had ingested some seawater on the trip from Fiji to Port Vila. This appears to be one of those classic "got there, wanna go home - NOW" boats.

Got me to thinking.... but then again, I've got a project or two around here already - fitted the rest of the main bulkhead for Grantala yesterday and cut out half the starboard cabin side - ready for the guys to fit the new carlin and deck beams........ on it goes.

Ian

[mmd]

Same thing happens in southern Caribbean islands - a down-wind romp in a 30-footer gets the neophyte cruiser a long way from mid-eastcoast America, but after a week or two of slogging into the trade winds trying to make it home some find that their boat is to small, or too slow, or they are getting too beat up, so they pull into one of the Windward islands and fly home. I had opportunity to buy a pretty tricked-out 1/4-tonner for $7500 while I was in St. Vincent a few years ago, but passed on it 'cause I knew it would be even harder to bring it all the way back to Nova Scotia.

[Rocky]

It just sold for $7000 with one bid. Just curious why there wasn't more action. Guess that price said "bottomless pit."