First Post.. Should I buy? I did.
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:08 pm
Hi all and thanks for letting me join. I have been looking at entry level and budget friendly sailboats for the last couple of months. My 14-year-old daughter and I have caught the bug and are dying to get on the water. No experience for either of us sailing.
A friend from work overheard me talking about this to a buddy and offered up his Chrysler 22 which I believe is a 77. Absolutely filthy dirty, no tiller handle all running rigging rotten on deck and up in the rigging. Standing rigging looks good no visible cracks except a couple small surface cracks around the mast step. Boat has been sitting in a wet slip at his dock for eight years with no attention whatsoever. This is however his wife’s father‘s boat who died about six years ago. Lots of sentimental value to them none whatsoever to me. Seven or 8 inches of water in the floor which I presume to be rain getting in through the main hatch. All the other storage areas were dry. No galley, no toilet, no electronics or analog instruments of any kind ever installed that I can see. Haven’t seen the underside at all. Rudder post did spin and could feel that the rudder was spinning freely and smoothly. He went ahead and gave me a 1977 Johnson six horse outboard which I probably brought home cleaned up and fired right up on the stand.
So now the million dollar question… I was looking for a free boat or to spend as little as possible and go through the process of remodeling a boat with my daughter that we could then sailed together for the next couple of years. I was under the impression that this was going to be a freebie but have been asked how much we intended to offer them. Based on my research for the last month it could be worth anywhere from $0 to $5000.
I’d love some insight. I’m completely out of my element here.
A friend from work overheard me talking about this to a buddy and offered up his Chrysler 22 which I believe is a 77. Absolutely filthy dirty, no tiller handle all running rigging rotten on deck and up in the rigging. Standing rigging looks good no visible cracks except a couple small surface cracks around the mast step. Boat has been sitting in a wet slip at his dock for eight years with no attention whatsoever. This is however his wife’s father‘s boat who died about six years ago. Lots of sentimental value to them none whatsoever to me. Seven or 8 inches of water in the floor which I presume to be rain getting in through the main hatch. All the other storage areas were dry. No galley, no toilet, no electronics or analog instruments of any kind ever installed that I can see. Haven’t seen the underside at all. Rudder post did spin and could feel that the rudder was spinning freely and smoothly. He went ahead and gave me a 1977 Johnson six horse outboard which I probably brought home cleaned up and fired right up on the stand.
So now the million dollar question… I was looking for a free boat or to spend as little as possible and go through the process of remodeling a boat with my daughter that we could then sailed together for the next couple of years. I was under the impression that this was going to be a freebie but have been asked how much we intended to offer them. Based on my research for the last month it could be worth anywhere from $0 to $5000.
I’d love some insight. I’m completely out of my element here.