Well, we fully into December. We made it to the end! Christmas is like the big finale on a long trip around the sun. I don't want to forget to give a polite nod to Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. And we shall ALL observe Festivus on December 23 to air our grievances. I have a couple brewing. I hope you all find time this season to relax with someone you love and reflect on the good things in your life. Y'all be safe out there. Baby, it's getting cold!
I decorated and drove the SPCA parvo truck in the town Christmas parade last night. Bought one those Massimo mini jeeps for the kid* when they were discounted about $500 for black Friday. It's been difficult to keep him out of the shop so he doesn't see it early. That thing is cool, can't wait to drink beer and let him drive me around the neighborhood. I'm going find some way to hook a trailer up to it and add taking the trash to the dumpster to his chore list.
I'm sitting at the last market of the year. My kid has decided to join the family selling honey next door. There's no friends like festival friends.
I joke about being part of a "yacht club" because we don't have anything resembling a yacht. But, there are people there with some good sized boats. One of them took us out on his 54' Carver for the Lighted Christmas Boat Parade. And now.... I want a yacht lol Edit- the enormous one on the right is a hotel/restaurant.
No. You most assuredly are doing it right by having a friend with a yacht so you can just enjoy the good parts of yachting.
Here's a nice, affordable Mainship https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1988-mainship-mediterranean-convertible-9516987/ Or, a trawler for a wide range of budgets... https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1984-chb-34-double-cabin-9620722/ https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1984-hatteras-motoryacht-9428294/ https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1999-nordhavn-62-9266513/ That model Nordhavn is one of my dream boats.
Every now and then the Canadian Coast Guard puts some of their old ships up for sale for dirt cheap. Part of me really really wants to pull the trigger and have some fun. Like this: https://www.gcsurplus.ca/mn-eng.cfm...tr=1&lotnf=1&frmsr=1&sf=ferm-clos&saleType=OB
I'm not questioning the value for the money. Only that $75k, even if it was buying me the International Space Station, definitely hits above my threshold for "dirt cheap."
Dirt cheap does not mean "easily affordable". In that case, it sounds like the engine repair work alone to get it running would be 6 digits. I just find it insane that you can get such a substantial boat for such a low price, knowing that it's probably been quite well maintained, being that it was a Coast Guard SAR vessel.
Didn't look at any picture, but boats like that, engine replacement usually means chopping holes in the deck, or the side of the boat to get the engine out. So yea stupid expensive.
It has 3408 caterpillars in it, some great old diesels. I'd "in-frame" them, rebuild and new sleeves in the block, in the boat. I've seen them cut giant holes in big sport fishing boats for engine updates. Those 3408s, I'd try to keep those, rather than cut the boat up for more modern engine install. Even if you had to tear it down and then lift the block off of the engine bed to get the crank out for machining and bearings, worth it. Still need some deep pockets to refit that boat properly. And, it says it has a fuel range of 200 miles. That's fine for a search and rescue boat working coastal areas, where helicopters do the furthest rescues. I'd want way more than that for something that I was really planning to travel on. The Nordhavn I linked to has a range of over 3,000 miles.
It could be a case of whomever wrote the ad not knowing and throwing out a low number. However, they also gave the size of the tank, 847 gallons(3.2 m³), and the math may be mathing at 4 gallons per mile, which is about half as efficient as a comparable sized fiberglass sport fishing boat, which is the type of boat most similar in hull shape to this one. Tough to say, it's close enough to sound like it might accurate info, but it could also be a low estimation.
She looks like she was an Arun class lifeboat. From the wiki page it looks like they had about a 250 nautical mile range.