THE ROLLS ROYCE OF EASILY HANDLED OCEAN CRUISERS!!!  Ask any sailor with many years of ocean experience what is the best and toughest Blue Water Ocean Cruiser for a couple or for single handing to cruise to the far islands and the top names you will hear are Oyster, Tayana, Westsail, Saber, Cabo Rico, Island Packet and Endeavor.  Any of these brands are going to cost three or four times the price of similar size boat in a coastal cruiser brand because they are built 3 or 4 times as well and their sailing performance is legendary even with a hull and keel that is built for extreme abuse. That extra money you spend is what will save your life if you ever get into real trouble with your yacht in a distant ocean or harbor. INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY A HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER YACHT AT A SMALL FRACTION OF IT'S VALUE DUE TO NEED TO MOVE IT QUICKLY. PLEASE READ STORAGE AND LAUNCH DETAILS AND TERMS OF AUCTION PRIOR TO BIDDING. ENDEAVOR'S 32s ARE A RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER GLOBAL OCEAN CRUISER THAT OFTEN SELL FOR $25k IN "PROJECT" CONDITION AND UPWARDS OF $40K IN FULLY RESTORED CONDITION.DO SOME SEARCHES ON THE WEB AND YOU WILL SEE THIS IS TRUE. FINDING ONE IN ANY KIND OF CONDITION, EVEN SUBMERGED AND FULL OF MUD FOR LESS THAN $10k IS PRACTICALLY UNHEARD OF.   AS IT SITS, EVEN WITH SMALL CARPENTRY PROJECT NEEDED AROUND THE WINDOWS FAIR MARKET VALUE FOR THIS BOAT IS $20,000. WITH A LITTLE WORK AND NEW SAILING INSTRUMENTS INSTALLED ETC. FULLY RESTORED CONDITION BOAT WILL BE WORTH $40,000. SELLING WITH NO RESERVE BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE LAUNCHED OR MOVED ASAP FROM THE YACHT CLUB AND I CANNOT TAKE TIME TO GO TO BOSTON TO MOVE IT RIGHT NOW. IF YOU CAN MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR A MOORING IN BOSTON AREA OR AT A BOATYARD OR HAVE IT MOVED BY TRAILER SOMEWHERE, YOU CAN LITERALLY SAVE $10k TO $15k ON THIS BOAT OVER WHAT IT IS WORTH.Fantastic investment boat that you will be able to sell for far more than you bought it for if you do a bit of work on carpentry and get it to a place where you can take a few weeks to sell it, or keep it and have your own highly sought after global cruiser.The perfect Global Cruiser for a couple or small family because it is small enough to single-hand easily so that the other person can get sleep while the first person is sailing, but also large enough to carry all the supplies you need for international voyages with room on deck and room below to actually be comfortable for months at a time on the ocean. Get into a bigger boat and you will need more crew to handle it. Get into a smaller boat and its just too small to be comfortable and to handle the big ocean waves.Huge Interior. Fully Restored Sister-ships sell for $35k to $65,000. As spacious inside as many 38 foot boats. Tons of Stowage. 6.3 Headroom. Check out sister-ships for sale on other websites online. A very well regarded and sought after open ocean cruiser with the perfect keel and hull style for island hopping in shallow waters in the South Pacific or Mediterranean or Caribbean where you may be hundreds of miles from nearest assistance and want a durable vessel that can survive storms and groundings. A Serious Yacht for serious sailors. The perfect size and type for a couple or small family to cruise the world or for a family up to 5 to do coastal cruising. Sleeps 5.  Nearly new Sea-Ward Hille Range gimballed galley stove.I will try to add more details later about the world famous yacht designers and builder who developed and built these boats and the history and legacy of them. However, till then you can research them yourself online using google searches and also see the several sister ships for sale around the world.  Even boats in very rough condition sell for twice the price of lesser brands in good condition.My wife and I are serious blue water ocean sailors with thousands of miles and many years experience offshore and doing coastal cruising. It is our passion to help other people discover the sailing lifestyle, and especially the more serious cruising lifestyle. We already have our keeper boat and don't need another one, but every once in a while we discover through our friends and connections at boatyards a boat that is a really rare and serious vessel that isn't getting the love and attention and exercise that it deserves, and we will try to help find a new home for it. This is one of those rare boats. If you want to call me and discuss your cruising or sailing plans and dreams and whether or not this boat might actually work to suit your needs I will be happy to speak with you and give you my honest opinion about the feasibility of your plans and whether this vessel might or might not work for you. Feel free to call and chat. William 970 319-4361ATTENTION: THIS IS A SERIOUS AUCTION FOR A SERIOUS BOAT.  YOUR BID IS A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT TO PURCHASE THIS SAILBOAT THE SAME AS A CONTRACT TO PURCHASE REAL ESTATE OR A NEW CAR. BY PLACING YOUR BID YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THE AUCTION AND THE PAYMENT TERMS. PLEASE CONSIDER ALL OF THIS PRIOR TO MAKING A BID. PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE AUCTION TEXT PRIOR TO BIDDING AND MAKE SURE YOU THAT YOU HAVE AS MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR PURCHASE AS POSSIBLE. I AM HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BOAT AND YOU ARE WELCOME TO GO AND SEE IT IN PERSON PRIOR TO BIDDING IF YOU LIKE. CALL ME WILLIAM AT 970 319-4361. PAYMENT IS DUE IN FULL WITHIN 24 HOURS. SEE PAYMENT TERMS. CLEAR TITLE IS AVAILABLE. CURRENTLY IN PROCESS OF CONVERTING COAST GUARD DOCUMENTATION INTO STATE TITLE. HAVE THE MOST RECENT DOCUMENTATION CERTIFICATE IN HAND AND CURRENTLY WAITING TO RECEIVE THE NEW TITLE BACK FROM THE STATE. PLEASE ONLY BID WHAT YOU HAVE ON HAND TO SPEND AND DISCUSS THE PURCHASE WITH YOUR BOAT PARTNERS AND/OR SPOUSE PRIOR TO BIDDING. ALSO PLEASE INVESTIGATE BOAT STORAGE OR TRANSPORTATION COSTS PRIOR TO BIDDING IF YOU PLAN TO MOVE THE VESSEL BY LAND OR KEEP IT AT THE BOATYARD OR IN A SLIP.  MOVING A BIG SAILBOAT WITH A BOAT MOVER CAN BE VERY EXPENSIVE. OFTEN $4 OR SO PER MILE. MOVING IT YOURSELF, EITHER BY LAND OR WATER IS MUCH CHEAPER BUT PLEASE THINK THROUGH YOUR PLANS BEFORE PLACING A BID. I AM HAPPY TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE OPTIONS IN THAT REGARD IF YOU WANT TO GIVE ME A CALL AT 970 319 4361.Condition of the boat is not pristine and fully restored but all the important systems are intact and a few weekends of work could save you tens of thousands of dollars. These are very hard to find vessels and do not come up for sale on the used market very often and almost never as a no reserve auction. Very nice Cockpit cushions. Swim ladder and boat pole and winch handle, ok but not great. Fire extinguisher needs replacing. Probably will need batteries charged or even new batteries installed prior to cruising. Nice Refrigerator ice box with actual refrigerator condenser. Head has good standing head room to install a stand up shower for serious cruising, but I didn't see one installed currently. Bottom paint has a few flaking spots and needs another coat of bottom paint.The biggest project is a carpentry project that would take a few days. Fortunately it is cosmetic rather than structural so you could go ahead and sail it and then do this later, but what needs doing is to replace the gaskets on the ports (windows) and use newspaper and tape to trace out new templates for the 1/4 inch plywood around the windows and cut and install the new plywood for the upper cabin walls around the windows where drips deteriorated the plywood. See photos for details of this. You can see the old wood deteriorated around the windows in the pictures.  Minor stains on the cushions need cushion covers to be removed and washed, possibly with a bit of bleach. General cleaning needed and certain areas of interior could benefit from sanding and new varnish and paint. One broken mooring cleat on stern and needs new main winch cleats and a new rope for the main sheet. Otherwise everything seems to be in fairly decent condition. The motor I am told works very well and is in good shape but there is an annoying buzzer alarm that has a short in it or a bad sensor and makes noise when things are turned on. The buzzer needs to be replaced or removed. Expect to buy new instruments. The ones that are there are untested and look fairly old. Expect to need a VHF, GPS and Depth Sounder (about $800 to $2000 total) for all new instruments depending on which model you buy. Yanmar Diesel is reportedly winterized and runs well but I have not conducted any tests because I did not want to un-winterize it prior to launch. You are welcome to come and check out the vessel in person and I encourage it as that is the only way to know for certain that it meets your expectations. Storage, Launch and Paperwork Details:Vessel is stored at a private yacht club in Beverly MA, just north of Boston. I have been told that all launch fees are pre-paid. You can do your own basic work to the boat prior to the launch like changing the batteries and painting the bottom with fresh anti-fouling paint and other simple stuff. However, if you want to do weeks of work to it, you will have to move it to a new location because there is a several year waiting list for new members to join the yacht club and only members have official access and access to the clubhouse and facilities. The previous owner is still a member and may be on hand to assist with the launch. Boat needs to be launched or moved by truck ASAP as the Yacht Club is ending their launch period for the season and we do not want to boat to get stuck at the yacht club for another season.This is the only reason why this boat is available for less than its fair price of $15K to $20K. Please respect this and only participate in the auction if you have a plan for getting to Boston quickly and overseeing the launch or move of the boat ASAP. There are moorings available in the area, but to be cost effective, the cheapest boatyards would be further south in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey where tons of boatyards are competing for your business.If you intend to move it by trailer they can help you un-step the mast and load the vessel but your arrangements need to be made in advance with the yacht club.  Vessel is currently US Coast Guard Documented and the most recent Certificate of Documentation is available  right away but will need to have ownership updates filed if you wish to keep it documented. (US Coast Guard Documentation is their form of a title) Otherwise, I am working to get a state title processed but haven't received it yet, so if you want the other option of a state title or state registration (depending on your own home state's rules or the rules of the state you want to register it) there will be a delay of a few days to get those papers back from the state.Auction closes Wednesday mid-day just a bit after 12:30 pm Eastern Time. This is a NO RESERVE auction and boat will sell to the highest bidder regardless of the closing price. If you want to win this one make sure to get your best bid in early or set the alarm on your phone and tune it for the final few minutes of the auction. Again payment is due in full within 24 hours. Please respect this. We need the money to take care of urgent bills and can not offer financing or trades. I hope this terrific small ship goes to a great home. Again, call me if you want to discuss your sailing plans. I love to chat cruising. Good luck bidding! William 970 319-4361AND NOW IF YOU AREN'T YET TIRED OF READING A FEW INSIGHTS TO SHARE ABOUT BUYING BOATS AND CHOOSING THE RIGHT BOAT FOR GLOBAL CRUISING:A little about us. We are the Founder's of the Academy of Cruising and the business Cruising Consultants Inc. Our passion is to assist folks who are making a transition from day sailing or coastal cruising to becoming full-time live-aboard world cruisers. We also assist new sailors who are just getting into the sport of sailing by advising them on how to develop their skills and how to make plans to pursue the dream of cruising and world traveling full-time. We have extensive contacts and resources for finding good world cruising boats at far below their fair market value, and occasionally we discover an amazing neglected vessel at a price that we know may enable a cruising family or a retired couple on fixed income the ability to pursue the dream of cruising without the sort of means and savings normally associated with pursuing this lifestyle. In those cases, like this boat, we work to try and find a new home for a good “below market value” boat, with people who will fully restore the vessel, and hopefully use it for the serious cruising that the boat was designed for. There are many aspects of life where experience really matters, but none so much as global cruising. When you are planning to take a small boat across vast oceans and visit foreign ports of call on your own terms you must truly learn to become Master's of your Own Destiny. It doesn't matter how wealthy you are or how talented you are at managing large organizations or companies with dozens of staff people. When you are on a boat in the middle of the ocean, the choices you have made, the choices you will make and your own internal skills and the undeniable truth of how well or poorly you have planned for your expedition, are the factors that will determine whether your experiences become a positive adventure or a frightening (or even life threatening) catastrophe. When you are looking at a boat parked peacefully at a dock or on jack stands at a boat yard, you will be tempted to judge it based on whether the lines are nice and whether it is pretty or ugly and whether it is new or old and well kept or run down. The ocean however, operates according to immutable laws of physics. The ocean does not care whether it sinks a pretty boat or keeps an ugly one floating. It does not care whether you are a skilled sailor with dozens or years experience under your shade hat or whether you are an amateur on your first weekend pleasure cruise. You will be served exactly the same conditions of wind and waves whether you were born wealthy or if you were raised in a cave by baboons. The only control you have over these situations is knowing when to sail and when not to sail, and you can prepare yourself so that when the wrong situation strikes, if it ever does, you are skilled and prepared to deal with it and have a vessel that is prepared to handle the same. For people who are wanting to go cruising full-time, or who want to go from being pleasure sailors to competent seamen and seawomen, choosing the right boat is the first and sometimes ultimately most important decision of their nautical lives. Of course you can always sell or trade a boat and then buy a different one, but still the choice of each boat will influence the experiences you have and it will determine in many ways the capabilities or limitations of what you can or can't do while you have that boat for your home—even if it is only home for a few weekends here and there. There are many nuances and subtleties to sailing, as well as to each individual vessel. A boat that may be just exactly perfect for one sailor or family of sailors, may be completely the wrong boat to suit another person's dreams. By nature, boats require a lot of maintenance and upgrades, and if you are someone who wants all the possible bells and whistles, boating can be a very expensive occupation. However, there are also ways to save a lot of money and still pursue the dream effectively and safely and create a new floating paradise for yourself. But each person or each couple's needs are different. There is no such boat as a boat that is not a project boat. Long before we were married, when my wife was only 12 years old, and her father (a relatively wealthy man at the time) purchased a brand new Beneteau 46 for the family to live on for years and to cruise the world on, the first thing he did to a brand new half million dollar boat was to spend another $27K on equipment upgrades, new electronics installations and custom modifications. The reason he did that is because no boat, no matter how shiny and brand new, is exactly right for everyone's individual tastes and needs, and no boat comes straight from the factory completely ready to do anything other than Wednesday afternoon beer can races. I often get asked by people who are shopping for a used boat to go cruising the world, “Is this boat ready to cross the Atlantic?” or “Does it need anything before it is 'Ready to Sail.” The very nature of that question is a showcase of their naivety. Even if the answer were “Yes, the boat is ready.” (which would be impossible to have any boat ready unless you have spent thousands of dollars on a cruising chandlery and provisioning service ahead of time) the greater question is “Are such ignorant sailors who need to ask such questions ready themselves?” Even if they had the absolutely perfect boat, prepared ahead of time by die-hard professionals to get it ready to cast off the lines and sail to points distant and exotic, would the sailors know where everything is at on the boat and how to operate those systems and how not to break them with ignorant mistakes or how to fix them once broken? And if they knew all those things, would the boat be equipped with the necessary repair tools and supplies as part of the process of getting it ready to sail? So all these are big questions, and the only easy answer is that any sailor must become intimately familiar with their vessel prior to making long voyages beyond sight of land. The easiest way to become familiar with a boat so that it is not a stranger but rather a trusted old friend is to do a lot of weekend coastal cruising with it, while you work all the bugs out. Also, the more projects and upgrades you do yourself the more familiar you will be with how they work, how to maintain them and how to fix them again if anything every goes wrong. To depend on the expertise of professionals left behind in a port in a distant country you cleared out of months ago is only to invite future disaster...and its also much harder on the wallet. So any time you can add to your own skills and knowledge of your own boat by doing your own work, or hiring a professional to help you do it yourself, you are preparing yourself for future success as a cruiser. Any boat, even a brand new boat, will have things about it that you want to change or upgrade or move or install prior to making long voyages. The better questions to ask are: “What is the proper amount of maintenance and upgrades that I will make to my vessel prior to setting sail? How many things need to be changed or fixed before I leave the continental US? How many projects will I work on, as little projects along the way, when I have a slow day at a boring anchorage and there are no cruiser parties to attend and no interesting conversations of the side channels of the VHF. How many projects are absolutely vital to get accomplished before I begin actively using the boat as a full time residence and a floating RV that can sail to any country with a coastline?” How many projects do I want to tackle myself if it means I can save literally tens of thousands of dollars on the purchase price of a boat, and how much more ultimate value do I get for my money by buying a larger or more seaworthy boat with a few bigger projects to tackle than if I buy a smaller or more flimsy boat that is cleaned up nicer and has fewer problems to address. (Remember the ultimate cosmic law of boating – even if you can't see any problems at all with a boat, and no projects needing doing, as soon as you own it and begin to sail it, you will start to find those quirks and bugs) So don't fool yourself into believing that you can simply buy a shiny new boat from a broker at full market value, or even by paying more than boat blue book value, to avoid ever having to make repairs or upgrades. Any experienced sailor or boating professional other than someone selling fancy new boats will admit to you that there is no such boat other than a “project boat.” The only question is “What are the projects and how much money will I save by doing them myself versus hiring someone else to complete them?” Every boat that I have ever bought or ever sold, which is now many dozens of them, had varying degrees of things needing to be improved about it. Even the brand new boats straight from the showroom floor or boat show sales dock will need bottom painting and new zincs and fuel cleansing treatments and oil changes and manifold and riser inspections within a matter or months of casual weekend use. The longer any boat sits without the proper level of loving regular maintenance the faster it will deteriorate, and tiny 15 minute projects will turn into hour-long projects and hour-long projects will turn into day-long or week-long projects due to continuing neglect. The quality of the build is also important. A cheap boat will have cheap boat problems, and it will have serious issues far faster and more frequently than a very well built boat from an esteemed yacht designer and builder even if the better boat looks worse initially. In many ways you are better off to buy an older and more well regarded vessel in worse “first impressions” condition than to buy a shiny and well kept cheaper new boat. In the long run the better boat will cause far fewer headaches once you have it restored fully and you are taking care of it yourself, whereas the cheap but glossy boat may still look new and shiny for years, but begin having serious and costly problems that cannot be seen even while it still looks great in Facebook boat pictures. Boating is like riding a horse or driving a high performance sports car. You always have to be involved in the life of your boat whether you use it frequently or not. But this is not a bad thing, because it is part of the pride of ownership, and the regular maintenance and upkeep and small projects is what enables you to avoid the big ones or to at least know which big ones you need to do sooner and which ones can wait till later.
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As you will guess by now, I'm a bit of a philosopher sailor when it comes to helping folks find just the right boat to serve their needs. I am currently writing a book on that very topic which will be called, “The Seven Questions of Cruising (or) the Seven Questions you should ask yourself before buying a Boat.” Here is a quick preview of the questions you should be trying to answer from the introduction to my new book. -- When you go to buy a boat, especially if it is your first boat, there are a lot of decisions to be made and hard choices to figure out. Before you begin searching for the correct vessel to serve your needs, you need to first ask yourself, (and your cruising partners/ spouse etc) some important questions which will help you immensely in the quest to find the perfect small ship to suit your needs. Question # 1- Where do you want to sail to (now and also possibly in the future)? #2 – Who might be going with you and/or who might want to visit you and stay on the boat with you once you get to that exotic foreign port (if global cruising is your goal) or that incredible weekend getaway spot (if weekend cruising is your thing). #3 – How much do you want to spend on this adventure called boating/sailing/? Also, how much “can” you afford to spend if you happen to take a wrong turn with the adventure and “need” to spend more money to fix a problem or get yourself or your stalwart side-kick (your boat) out of trouble? #4 – How handy are you? (i.e. - Are you someone who naturally takes pride in your ability to figure it out yourself, or are you the person who would rather call an “expert” and pay them to solve whatever problem you are having? #5 – How much time do you have to save yourself money, because in sailing, as well as in life in general “time often equals money.” #6 – Are you a weekend warrior and/or charter sailor, or do you want to cruise full time? #7 – Do you care more about Getting There or more about “Being There” once you have arrived? If I had more time, I would go into deeper discussion of how each of these important questions affects your choice of boat and how you can use those questions to determine if this particular boat is the best one to suit your needs and dreams. However, this is already about the longest Ebay auction text in history, so if you want to discuss all that more fully and chat more about the particular little projects and tasks that need to be done to restore this boat to full world cruising status, then I'll be happy to talk with you on the phone for a few minutes. This boat is a boat that needs some basic skill level improvements and restorations, but nothing that can't be done by a person with average handy skills over the coarse of a few weekends while they are taking breaks in between weekend sailing trips. All of the important structural and mechanical systems necessary to basic sailing are working fine on this boat, from everything I can tell doing basic inspections and from the testimony of the previous owner. You will want to charge the batteries and put on a fresh coat of bottom paint prior to launching, but that is good practice for any boat going into the water again after being stored for the winter on jack stands. All that said, with a no reserve auction, the best thing about this boat is that you may be able to invest a few weekends of your own labor and some affordable materials into restoring it into the $30K to $50K boat that it easily could become again, and yet you have an opportunity to purchase it at a mere fraction of that price. To build this same boat today, the way it was constructed when it was new and using the same quality materials in today's product and labor costs would cost well over $150,000 to the boat builder, before even adding the sales broker's mark up. And so, a new boat built as well as a classic Endeavor 32 would typically cost about $250K or more after the marketing, distribution and brokers fees. Just the engine in good running condition and the lead in the keel at regular price for lead bars ($2 or so per pound) are worth about $10K in replacement value. So all that said, here is your opportunity to get a heck of a sturdy world cruising vessel for dimes on the dollar. I hope it goes to a good home. Call me if you want to arrange to go and see the boat in person or if you have any other questions about it. Remember, payment is due in full within 24 hours.
Thanks, William 970 319-4361