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As I ran into a few disappointing surveys and sea trials I reviewed all the advice and opinions given and looked further into the S2 7.9. I found a nice one in Green Bay at a reasonable price (the upgrades alone since 2016 were equal to the selling price) and it is now sitting securely in the...

This is a Black Swan event designed to prop up the price of oil. Expect more to come, as the inescapable rampant inflation will be blamed on energy costs/covid and not the frenzy of the money printing presses. People are working from home, the economy is in free-fall, people are being paid by...

Some interesting points have been raised. The Bermuda 40 has been off the table for quite a while for me. I think everyone would agree that a pristine J/42 is more valuable than a pristine J/40 and far more expensive.  For me, I have looked at two J Boats in a row that are in need of tens of...

And of course now the Hinckley is sold! 

Worth reading the whole thread, this is the moisture meter used by the surveyor and he says it is the best of all he has tried. $40 at Home Depot. Next time I will do a self-survey prior to paying $28 per foot for a legal survey. 

Falmouth Maine is a beautiful place, I arrived a little early and started poking around the boat. Overall, the boat is about what I expected but I was hoping for a little less crazing on the deck gelcoat. People say this is the brand of gelcoat they use but this is nine years before that era of...

Sadly at this point the US government is not funding its expenditures with taxes, rather with an artificial economy based on zero percent interest rates and printing money. Covid has been at best a fortuitous excuse for the printing which was going to happen anyway and also served to...

Just got a phone call from the broker, survey delayed until Friday due to rain storms predicted Friday. Good thing I am retired... 

Saw it in the J/40 owners site. $1700 for four hoses under the pedestal, and that was with the pedestal out to repair the core under the pedestal. Seems crazy high to me also but that was the yard bill for that item. 

Survey Wednesday! It will be squeezed into an afternoon as the surveyor added it on to a morning survey the same day, on the request of the broker to avoid a month delay in performing a survey.  Added to that, with trucking the boat 500 miles it is impractical financially to put it in the water...

Yes that would be improper installation. It is very important to pre-drill the holes, drill and fill,  and chamfer the edge.  Good tutorial: https://marinehowto.com/bed-it-tape/

Things are moving along in a positive direction. This time Markel came back with a timely quote, in the $800 per year range covering the Great Lakes region. That's a lot better than $3000 for Annapolis and the east coast I was quoted for the B40 of identical price. Wow, it's giving me flashbacks...

The underwear came with the woman and the woman is self-sufficient. Same woman yesterday catching a grouper from her own fishing boat, launched from her nice house on the waterfront in Samar:

The economy has been on life support since 2008, interest rates have been near zero since-this is the big gun to stimulate the economy. Now the only thing left is to print currency and forbearance of mortgage payments. We are nearing the end of a long financial cycle and there is no way out...

Yes, that’s why I said it. But the Swan 44 has a deep draft and would still be a $35K white elephant. Most going that route are not using premium marquees to cut off the mast and be motor only cruisers. 

The nice J/40 became available just now when the buyer backed out of the deal. I put a deposit on it.    And now the Hinckley is back on the market for the same reason, I guess the moral of the story is to be polite with the broker on a pending sale boat. I’m two for two on deals falling...

Not planning a Great Loop and never was, but living in Cleveland it would be half of one to get to the Bahamas. I have mentioned above that plan doesn’t seem practical. I think the confusion comes from seeing the swan 44 in Michigan with a rotten mast step would make a good great loop vessel...

The J/40 is a great recommendation, it checks all the boxes for sure. There is a beautiful one in Maine for $79K, but it has an offer already awaiting survey and 40 people waiting in line if it is rejected. $40K less than the Hinckley and has many advantages: better performance, better galley...

No gracias on the appearance, and I cannot even imagine the extent of crazy that would come with it

Time for an update as everyone has been very helpful. The broker did not mention there was another offer on the Hinckley with the potential buyer living far, far away and planning to personally inspect the boat on April 9. Today. My understanding is that this is bad broker form, in that usually...