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LIVE THE MULTI-HULL DREAM A FRACTION OF FULL PRICE - 41 Ft Blue Water Cruiser
Estimated price for orientation: 5 600 $
Category: Sailboats 28 feet
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Description Year: 1968 Keel: Shoal Draft 3 ft Make: Ted Irwin Designed Tri Built By Corinthian Yachts Trailer: Not Included Model: Gulf States R and D Inc. 41 Foot Multi-hull Use: Salt Water Type: Blue Water Single Piece Moulded Hull Ketch Rigged Engine Type: Perkins 4108 Diesel Length (feet): 41 Engine Make: Freshwater Cooled Beam (feet): 24 Primary Fuel Type: Diesel Hull Material: Fiberglass Fuel Capacity: 101 - 150 Gallons Rigging: Ketch For Sale By: Private Seller
The perfect live-aboard boat to experience the cruising life in relative comfort. Huge spacious interior could sleep up to 10 people (or 12 with modifications) with extra space for stowage of all the things necessary to enjoy the nautical life. This boat needs a re-model and a lot of mechanical upgrades and navigational instruments before it is ready to sail off-shore, but it is the perfect boat to live on, in-the-water, while you complete the restoration. It is a classic multi-hull built in 1968 and designed by world famous naval designer and builder Ted Irwin. The boat is so spacious inside because of the multiple hulls that it has interior and stowage space equivalent to many 55 or 60 foot traditional yachts. The masts are currently unstepped. The first picture in the listing is from before the masts were taken down. The rest of the pictures were just taken this week. This is a classic yacht with a lot of cool retro-vintage style. It doesn't have the sleek modern look of the cheaply built and flimsy modern catamarans and trimarans, but it has true timeless appeal the way a 68 Camero or 68 VW microbus are. The Corinthian 41 was the first multi-hull yacht built in the United States of America. Prior to these, if you wanted a professionally built multi-hull in the Caribbean or US waters, you had to purchase it in Europe and import it across the Atlantic. There were only 27 of these fine trimarans built at the Corinthian Yachts factory in Tarpon Springs Florida. This one has sailed for many years throughout all parts of the Caribbean, Florida Keys, Bahamas and US East Coast. It survived 120 mile per hour winds in Hurricane Hugo with barely a scratch, and a bronze plaque above the port side double berth proudly remembers that ordeal, when many lesser vessels perished in the storm. Of the original Corinthian 41 boats I can only find two other ones for sale online. One is on yachtworld in Merrit Island Florida for $84,500 and another one, more recently restored is for sale in Texas for $160,000. Do not mistake this for a boat that can just be loaded with canned goods and set sail for the open ocean. You will never find a boat like that on Ebay for under $100,000. Even the boats for $40K or $50K that look very nice inside and have a lot of working systems will still require a whole list of upgrades and small or large projects before they can be safely sailed off-shore. On Youtube, in the SV Delos episode where they haul out their lovely and expensive 53 foot Amel Ketch luxury yacht in the South Pacific, it is awesome and sobering to see their whole wall of post-it-notes of projects and tasks needing to be completed before they are ready to go back in the water. ATTENTION: THIS IS A SERIOUS LISTING FOR A SERIOUS BOAT. YOUR BID OR BEST OFFER 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 CLICKING THE PURCHASE BUTTON. PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE 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 OR YOU HAVE THE OPTION OF KEEPING THE BOAT AS A US COAST GUARD DOCUMENTED VESSEL, WHICHEVER YOU PREFER.
The boat can stay at the very nice marina where it is in Charleston SC for $619 per month, but if that is too expensive for you there are several other marinas in the area which are more affordable but don't have quite as many nice amenities. The place where the boat is has nice hot showers, wifi, 24 hr sailor's lounge, electricity and water at the boat and laundry facilities and they allow you to stay on your boat. It also is a place with a really nice community of fellow sailors whose skills and companionship is a great benefit to one another. To save money on a long-term live-aboard situation you could also set up your own mooring and moor the boat out for free in any one of the nice public anchorages in the area, but to do that you would need to install solar panels or wind generator to run anchor light and bilge pump. MOVING A BIG SAILBOAT WITH A BOAT MOVER CAN BE VERY EXPENSIVE. DUE TO THE FACT THAT THIS IS A MULTI-HULL IT WILL BE NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO MOVE IT BY TRUCK. THE ONLY REALISTIC PLAN IS TO KEEP THE BOAT WHERE IT IS UNTIL THE MECHANICAL ASPECTS ARE RESTORED TO GOOD WORKING ORDER AND THEN MOVE IT BY WATER WITH A COMPETENT CREW. I AM HAPPY TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE OPTIONS IN THAT REGARD IF YOU WANT TO GIVE ME A CALL. AND NOW IF YOU AREN'T YET TIRED OF READING A FEW INSIGHTS TO SHARE ABOUT BUYING BOATS AND CHOOSING THE RIGHT BOAT TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS. Every boat is a project boat. Some boats are more “project” than “boat.” The good ones are more boat than project. This trimaran is huge, spacious and relatively comfortable accomodations to begin your nautical dreams if you are new to sailing. But it has several hundred hours of tedius little projects to be completed before taking it out into the open ocean. I say this again, because so many people shopping for boats on Ebay, seem to think they can just purchase a boat and then two weeks later learn to sail it en-route to some exotic island destination. That is not how sailing works. That is a good recipe to get yourself or someone else hurt and lose your boat. If that is the way you approach sailing, then it is better to purchase a cheap old boat, because at least when you get into trouble with it you won't be destroying a half million dollar yacht running into a pier or or bridge or getting caught by currents or wind that you hadn't factored into your reckless equations of majestic blissful cruising. If you have never sailed before, or only done limited lake or bay sailing, then buy this huge and serious vessel to live on at the dock while you learn to do ocean sailing in a much smaller compact ocean cruiser that will teach you the skills you need to navigate and sail safely without such huge forces of physics being subject to your level of inexperience. If you are an experienced Blue Water ocean sailor then these words are statements of truth whith you live by when you choose your weather window and plan carefully for your first shake-down-cruises. But if you are looking at buying your first boat, then take me seriously. The ocean is a serious place for people with real sailing skills. It is a not good place to practice your learning curve for a novice. Who we are: I teach sailing and cruising professionally part-time and my wife and I are ocean cruisers with thousands of miles of experience cruising the various ports and harbors of the ocean. We are a sort of Humane Society for good old worthy vessels. Whenever we can find a great classic boat through our contacts in the marine culture or through our friends who are marina managers, and we know it will be a good match to meet the needs of some aspiring cruisers or live-aboard anchor sailors, we try to rescue these good boats from oblivion and help find new owners who will restore and refit them to keep them sailing for the next generation. As often as we can, and time-permitting we try to restore a few of these classic ships to cruise ready condition and then sell them at fair market prices. We are lucky to be good enough at that restoration process that we actually make a living doing it and it supports our cruising habit. You can actually make pretty good money buying a good ol' boat for $30K or whatever, and spending another $10k or $20k and a few months restoring it and sailing it and then selling it for $100,000. But sometimes, we find a good and deserving boat, but we just don't have enough time to fit the restoration into our own schedule, and so we adopt it until we can find a worthy new owner, and hopefully get it to someone who will give it the love and attention and hours of work of restoration. We are very committed to helping middle class people continue to be a part of the cruising culture. Often times, yachting is thought of exclusively as a rich mans hobby. And buying and maintaining a ready-to-go world cruiser can require hundreds of thousands of dollars. But it doesn't necessary have to be that way for someone willing to invest sweat equity in a boat with some projects to complete. What this lifestyle does require however, is a fortitude for pushing through lots of tedius little tasks, some of them full of dirt and mud and grease and sweat and the frustration of trying to work through installation and maintenance manuals and order little $12 parts that take three weeks to arrive from some obscure distributor in Japan or Norway. You have to have a willingness to dive into learning new skills. Basic diesel mechanical skills and basic 12volt and 120 volt electrical skills are as necessary to every serious sailor as is the knowledge of safe anchoring and safe sailing. After all, if you can't change your own oil or your own filters or fix a short in the wire to your GPS you had better not go sailing any further than you can call and get a rescue tow from TowBoat US. If you want to learn all these skills of safe vessel operation, navigation and repair and maintenance skills then there are ample resources to acquire that knowledge. I can refer you to dozens of terrific step-by-step books with great photo illustrations and fantastic youtube how-to videos for almost every aspect of restoring a classic sailboat. But you have to have the patience and willingness to develop those skills if you haven't already learned them. Setting sail before you have that skill set is as unwise as letting a twelve year old driver take a car on the Interstate. They may think they know how to drive because they have done it on the go-cart track at the fun park, but you and I know better. If you do not possess this sort of handy knowledge or the willingness to acquire it, you can still join and participate in the nautical life-style, but you need to get competent experienced sailors to help you move any large vessel that you are going to take out on the ocean, and you should spend most of your time in the bay, on the lake or close to shore on calm wind days. About this boat, the GOOD, The BAD and the UGLY. The Good: Really the best thing about this boat is it's huge interior and large spacious deck. It is currently set up with three double cabins. Several thousand dollars was spent on renovating the V-berth cabin just a few years ago, adding a new $800 high quality sealing glass hatch which looks out in between the inner and outer hulls, new port windows and very nice teak and stained birch interior woodwork. The rest of the boat is mostly plywood covered with linoleum and it is original. You can see in the detail photo a few areas where the linoleum is peeling up and needs to be glued back down with contact cement. The boat has hydraulic steering and an autopilot system. It has a dingy davits so you can hang your dingy off the back with block and tackles and raise and lower it rather than having to tow it behind. The outer pontoons have tons of stowage space so that you can put sails and spare diesel fuel and propane tanks and anchors and all that sort of stuff in the outer hulls and leave the main interior clear of clutter. This also means that the interior cubbies and closets can be used for basic household things like clothing and food rather than having to store sailing equipment and spare lines and sails. Because the boat has a protected prop and rudder and no keel, you can sail it right up to a beach at mid tide and just park it on the sand with a safety line tied to a palm tree. Then play and have a couple drinks on the beach until the tide goes out and comes back in, and then just untie and float back off the beach using a tossed kedging anchor to pull yourself back into the deeper water. This also means that you can scrape and re-paint your own bottom and service the prop and rudder etc. just by beaching the boat rather than having to pay for an expensive haul out. In many parts of the world it is also very difficult to find a facility that can haul out a large multi-hull, so this becomes especially important. The deck is also large enough for big potluck parties on deck with your fellow sailors as well as room to mount kayak racks, and bicycles etc.. Other than one of the back cabin port windows the boat really seems to stay very dry when it is raining and I haven't seen any signs of leaking ceiling or windows. There is also a very nice, recently installed canvas dodger over the cockpit that comes with vinyl surround windows that can zip on and off for using the boat in cold or rainy weather and create a completely enclosed cockpit. The boat comes with seven good used sails. It has two very nice, recently installed Stainless 65 gallon water holding tanks (total 130 gallons) plus diesel tanks for 120 gallons for long passages under diesel power when necessary.
The Bad: The previous owner had this boat for sale a couple years ago with a boat broker for $54,000. However, after cruising on it for many years and making a number of upgrades over the years, he moved inland where he lived a couple hours drive from the boat. When it was at the dock and he wasn't able to check on it regularly, the weather got cold and the batteries stopped charging. That caused the bilge pumps to fail, and the boat has a little trickle leak coming in at the stuffing box on the rudder post that leaks two or three gallons of water per day. Over time, and without anyone noticing it, the back of the boat filled up with water. Once the water got above a through hull meant for ejecting water, and instead of ejecting water the boat took on water. The back of the boat filled up and water covered the engine until the marina staff noticed the back of the boat was tilted down and the bow was up higher out of the water than it should have been. They quickly pumped the water out but while it had water in the back of the boat the plywood of the cubboards swelled and got some silty mud residue in the drawers. The water damaged the starter and the alternator and a few other things like the electric pump motor on one of the toilets. I have not tested any of the electical breakers or anything like that, so there may be things there that need to be addressed. I had a professional mechanic inspect the motor after I bought the boat, and they got it to turn over and there is no obvious sign of water getting into the oil or into the anti-freeze, so I think the motor can likely be restored just by pulling the injectors and flushing with marvel mystery oil and changing the air, oil and fuel filters and putting on new alternator and starter. However, until this work is done and the engine is actually running with a supply of fresh fuel and pumping cooling water reliably you can't know for sure about anything. The boat also needs new batteries. The house power is provided by a bank of six volt daisy chained batteries that are about $75 each from Sams Club to replace and the starting power are two 12 volt marine batteries. In a worst worst case scenario the motor might possibly need a re-build. However, it is a 50HP Perkins 4108 diesel which is an extremely tough and reliable motor developed specifically for marine applications. It has the removable piston sleeves to enable a complete re-build without removing from the boat and the rebuild kits are available for it on ebay for about $800. The Ugly: Fortunately, the water that got in the boat didn't mess up things too bad overall, and the V-berth didn't even get wet at all. The worst part is just the plywood cupboards needing to be cleaned and re-painted and some of them perhaps having the plywood back drawer box rebuilt or sanded so they will slide in and out smoothly. The deck also has a few soft spots. The decks were built as a sandwich with two layers of fiberglass with a balsa oreo filling, and although the fiberglass layer is very strong the balsa filling can rot out if you drill a hole in the deck and don't epoxy seal it properly. The former owner used a three quarter inch drill bit to redrill most of the bolt holes, fill them with epoxy and then re-drill so that water couldn't leak inside the deck. He also used a jig saw set to a quarter inch depth to cut out most of the areas that had developed soft spots over the years and took out the old balsa and replaced it with closed cel rigid foam, and then poured fiberglass resin around the foam panels. He put the cut out top patch back down, sealed the edges of the seam with a layer of fiberglass cloth and then sanded it smooth. Due to this work he did, 80% of the boat has very solid decks which will never have any soft spot problems again, but there are still about three or four days of work that needs to be done patching and restoring the few remaining soft spots. There is only one really bad spot, which is right along the very back edge of the deck by the dingy hoist. The other few spots don't really need to be done in any sort of hurry. You could leave them the way they are for many more years if you aren't so picky about a deck with a bit of flex under foot, but to sailors who really want a solid deck it is just a bit annoying walking because you can feel the deck flex beneath your step in a few small areas and you don't get that nice strudy deck feel that we associate with newer modern boats. Other things that maybe should be done would be changing out the turn-buckles on the rigging and getting new lines. There is nothing obvious wrong with the rigging except that it is original and the equipment is old style. If you are going to just spend most of your time at anchor with mostly motoring trips intra-coastal or inland the rigging should be fine, but I would replace the rigging connections or even re-rig before going hundreds of miles off shore. The previous owner replaced nearly all of the stay locks with brand new equipment and that is very good shape, but one of the back stays needs a new stay lock installed and the turn-buckles themselves appear to be original. The masts are currently unstepped and located at a working boatyard about 2 miles from where the boat is located at the marina. They can re-step the masts for you but you will usually have to schedule it a week or two in advance because they stay very busy, and getting back and forth with be easier after you get the motor running again. The other option for making the boat usuable if you don't get the Perkins running again right away is to mount an outboard motor bracket on the transom and put a 25 HP outboard motor. That would enable you to move the boat through calm waters ok and when there is not a big current to fight, but the inboard needs to be running before you sail the back on a big flowing current or go out onto the ocean. If you need to move the boat to another marina in the meantime, get yourself a Boat US premium membership for $150 per year and then you can call the towing service and have them move the vessel for you. But that will only work for one or two boat moves. You can't just get them to tow you every time you want to go sailing. The boat is being sold AS IS and even though I have checked out a lot of things about it, you will learn more of what little projects need to be done once you start spending time on it. The main batteries are dead and I have not checked out any of the equipment like hot water heater or windlass or air conditioner. The stove looks horrid but the microwave looks good. I think the propane system will probably still be working, but you will want a new galley stove. The refrigerator/ Freezer is a very expensive German brand called Grunert and parts and compressors can be ordered for it. The boat has a spare motor for the fridge unit. It comes with a large, probably 40lb or so, danforth anchor and a long rode. However, the chain that is with the boat is too short, so you will want a long piece of galvanized chain the right diameter to fit on the windlass and shackles to connect the anchor and chain and rode. A swivel is also vital to your ground tackle if you are cruising seriously as well as keeping a spare anchor or two on hand to back up your primary. You are buying a boat, knowing that it needs a number of repairs and upgrades. Some of the things like the breaker box and console switches are original to 1968. They look cool but you may want to upgrade to modern guages and the boat also needs, GPS and VHF and depth sounder for coastal use and you will want radar and solar panels before you go cruising. The mast was unstepped in preparation to upgrade the anchor lights and spreader lights and put on new turnbuckles and a new wind vane and VHF antenea. When we bought the boat at first, my friend wanted to partner with me to turn it into an Air BandB floating apartment in Hilton Head and rent it out for $300 per night since it could be made to sleep up to 12 people with a few basic modifications. We were going to make the necessary rigging and lighting upgrades while the mast was down, but then my wife talked me out of the idea of trying to get into the Air B and B business because it would keep us from being able to go sailing internationally. I still think it would be a terrific idea for someone to do with this boat, and after restoring it I think you could make a lot of money with it as a rental boat, but I just have too many irons in the fire to pursue that now, so that is why the boat is up for sale on Ebay. I had it listed before and my friend talked me out of selling it and I cancelled the auction, but now my wife talked some sense into my head, so we are putting it back up on Ebay again. If you have other questions about the vessel please feel free to give me a call. I''ll answer any questions that I know the answer to, and for any others you are welcome to come and inspect the boat in person. I highly recommend folks to come inspect it in person prior to bidding, as that is the only way to truly get an accurate idea of the actual condition of it, how much work is involved in the restoration and whether it is a good fit for your money/spare time ratio. Please consider carefully before bidding. Again, the vessel is being sold As Is and payment is due in full within 24 hours. Thanks for your interest. This is a no-reserve auction and the boat will sell to the highest bidder regardless of whether we break even, make money or lose our shirts. The auction closes Saturday, just after 3:30 pm Eastern time, so if you want to win the auction make sure to get your best bid in ahead of time or else set the alarm on your phone to tune in the final few minutes of the auction and monitor your bidding status. Sometimes the final few minutes will deternine the winner of the auction. If you have questions feel free to give me a call. William (970) 319-4361
Description
| Year: | 1968 | Keel: | Shoal Draft 3 ft |
| Make: | Ted Irwin Designed Tri Built By Corinthian Yachts | Trailer: | Not Included |
| Model: | Gulf States R and D Inc. 41 Foot Multi-hull | Use: | Salt Water |
| Type: | Blue Water Single Piece Moulded Hull Ketch Rigged | Engine Type: | Perkins 4108 Diesel |
| Length (feet): | 41 | Engine Make: | Freshwater Cooled |
| Beam (feet): | 24 | Primary Fuel Type: | Diesel |
| Hull Material: | Fiberglass | Fuel Capacity: | 101 - 150 Gallons |
| Rigging: | Ketch | For Sale By: | Private Seller |
The perfect live-aboard boat to experience the cruising life in relative comfort. Huge spacious interior could sleep up to 10 people (or 12 with modifications) with extra space for stowage of all the things necessary to enjoy the nautical life. This boat needs a re-model and a lot of mechanical upgrades and navigational instruments before it is ready to sail off-shore, but it is the perfect boat to live on, in-the-water, while you complete the restoration. It is a classic multi-hull built in 1968 and designed by world famous naval designer and builder Ted Irwin. The boat is so spacious inside because of the multiple hulls that it has interior and stowage space equivalent to many 55 or 60 foot traditional yachts. The masts are currently unstepped. The first picture in the listing is from before the masts were taken down. The rest of the pictures were just taken this week. This is a classic yacht with a lot of cool retro-vintage style. It doesn't have the sleek modern look of the cheaply built and flimsy modern catamarans and trimarans, but it has true timeless appeal the way a 68 Camero or 68 VW microbus are. The Corinthian 41 was the first multi-hull yacht built in the United States of America. Prior to these, if you wanted a professionally built multi-hull in the Caribbean or US waters, you had to purchase it in Europe and import it across the Atlantic. There were only 27 of these fine trimarans built at the Corinthian Yachts factory in Tarpon Springs Florida. This one has sailed for many years throughout all parts of the Caribbean, Florida Keys, Bahamas and US East Coast. It survived 120 mile per hour winds in Hurricane Hugo with barely a scratch, and a bronze plaque above the port side double berth proudly remembers that ordeal, when many lesser vessels perished in the storm. Of the original Corinthian 41 boats I can only find two other ones for sale online. One is on yachtworld in Merrit Island Florida for $84,500 and another one, more recently restored is for sale in Texas for $160,000. Do not mistake this for a boat that can just be loaded with canned goods and set sail for the open ocean. You will never find a boat like that on Ebay for under $100,000. Even the boats for $40K or $50K that look very nice inside and have a lot of working systems will still require a whole list of upgrades and small or large projects before they can be safely sailed off-shore. On Youtube, in the SV Delos episode where they haul out their lovely and expensive 53 foot Amel Ketch luxury yacht in the South Pacific, it is awesome and sobering to see their whole wall of post-it-notes of projects and tasks needing to be completed before they are ready to go back in the water. ATTENTION: THIS IS A SERIOUS LISTING FOR A SERIOUS BOAT. YOUR BID OR BEST OFFER 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 CLICKING THE PURCHASE BUTTON. PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE 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 OR YOU HAVE THE OPTION OF KEEPING THE BOAT AS A US COAST GUARD DOCUMENTED VESSEL, WHICHEVER YOU PREFER.
The boat can stay at the very nice marina where it is in Charleston SC for $619 per month, but if that is too expensive for you there are several other marinas in the area which are more affordable but don't have quite as many nice amenities. The place where the boat is has nice hot showers, wifi, 24 hr sailor's lounge, electricity and water at the boat and laundry facilities and they allow you to stay on your boat. It also is a place with a really nice community of fellow sailors whose skills and companionship is a great benefit to one another. To save money on a long-term live-aboard situation you could also set up your own mooring and moor the boat out for free in any one of the nice public anchorages in the area, but to do that you would need to install solar panels or wind generator to run anchor light and bilge pump. MOVING A BIG SAILBOAT WITH A BOAT MOVER CAN BE VERY EXPENSIVE. DUE TO THE FACT THAT THIS IS A MULTI-HULL IT WILL BE NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO MOVE IT BY TRUCK. THE ONLY REALISTIC PLAN IS TO KEEP THE BOAT WHERE IT IS UNTIL THE MECHANICAL ASPECTS ARE RESTORED TO GOOD WORKING ORDER AND THEN MOVE IT BY WATER WITH A COMPETENT CREW. I AM HAPPY TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE OPTIONS IN THAT REGARD IF YOU WANT TO GIVE ME A CALL. AND NOW IF YOU AREN'T YET TIRED OF READING A FEW INSIGHTS TO SHARE ABOUT BUYING BOATS AND CHOOSING THE RIGHT BOAT TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS. Every boat is a project boat. Some boats are more “project” than “boat.” The good ones are more boat than project. This trimaran is huge, spacious and relatively comfortable accomodations to begin your nautical dreams if you are new to sailing. But it has several hundred hours of tedius little projects to be completed before taking it out into the open ocean. I say this again, because so many people shopping for boats on Ebay, seem to think they can just purchase a boat and then two weeks later learn to sail it en-route to some exotic island destination. That is not how sailing works. That is a good recipe to get yourself or someone else hurt and lose your boat. If that is the way you approach sailing, then it is better to purchase a cheap old boat, because at least when you get into trouble with it you won't be destroying a half million dollar yacht running into a pier or or bridge or getting caught by currents or wind that you hadn't factored into your reckless equations of majestic blissful cruising. If you have never sailed before, or only done limited lake or bay sailing, then buy this huge and serious vessel to live on at the dock while you learn to do ocean sailing in a much smaller compact ocean cruiser that will teach you the skills you need to navigate and sail safely without such huge forces of physics being subject to your level of inexperience. If you are an experienced Blue Water ocean sailor then these words are statements of truth whith you live by when you choose your weather window and plan carefully for your first shake-down-cruises. But if you are looking at buying your first boat, then take me seriously. The ocean is a serious place for people with real sailing skills. It is a not good place to practice your learning curve for a novice. Who we are: I teach sailing and cruising professionally part-time and my wife and I are ocean cruisers with thousands of miles of experience cruising the various ports and harbors of the ocean. We are a sort of Humane Society for good old worthy vessels. Whenever we can find a great classic boat through our contacts in the marine culture or through our friends who are marina managers, and we know it will be a good match to meet the needs of some aspiring cruisers or live-aboard anchor sailors, we try to rescue these good boats from oblivion and help find new owners who will restore and refit them to keep them sailing for the next generation. As often as we can, and time-permitting we try to restore a few of these classic ships to cruise ready condition and then sell them at fair market prices. We are lucky to be good enough at that restoration process that we actually make a living doing it and it supports our cruising habit. You can actually make pretty good money buying a good ol' boat for $30K or whatever, and spending another $10k or $20k and a few months restoring it and sailing it and then selling it for $100,000. But sometimes, we find a good and deserving boat, but we just don't have enough time to fit the restoration into our own schedule, and so we adopt it until we can find a worthy new owner, and hopefully get it to someone who will give it the love and attention and hours of work of restoration. We are very committed to helping middle class people continue to be a part of the cruising culture. Often times, yachting is thought of exclusively as a rich mans hobby. And buying and maintaining a ready-to-go world cruiser can require hundreds of thousands of dollars. But it doesn't necessary have to be that way for someone willing to invest sweat equity in a boat with some projects to complete. What this lifestyle does require however, is a fortitude for pushing through lots of tedius little tasks, some of them full of dirt and mud and grease and sweat and the frustration of trying to work through installation and maintenance manuals and order little $12 parts that take three weeks to arrive from some obscure distributor in Japan or Norway. You have to have a willingness to dive into learning new skills. Basic diesel mechanical skills and basic 12volt and 120 volt electrical skills are as necessary to every serious sailor as is the knowledge of safe anchoring and safe sailing. After all, if you can't change your own oil or your own filters or fix a short in the wire to your GPS you had better not go sailing any further than you can call and get a rescue tow from TowBoat US. If you want to learn all these skills of safe vessel operation, navigation and repair and maintenance skills then there are ample resources to acquire that knowledge. I can refer you to dozens of terrific step-by-step books with great photo illustrations and fantastic youtube how-to videos for almost every aspect of restoring a classic sailboat. But you have to have the patience and willingness to develop those skills if you haven't already learned them. Setting sail before you have that skill set is as unwise as letting a twelve year old driver take a car on the Interstate. They may think they know how to drive because they have done it on the go-cart track at the fun park, but you and I know better. If you do not possess this sort of handy knowledge or the willingness to acquire it, you can still join and participate in the nautical life-style, but you need to get competent experienced sailors to help you move any large vessel that you are going to take out on the ocean, and you should spend most of your time in the bay, on the lake or close to shore on calm wind days. About this boat, the GOOD, The BAD and the UGLY. The Good: Really the best thing about this boat is it's huge interior and large spacious deck. It is currently set up with three double cabins. Several thousand dollars was spent on renovating the V-berth cabin just a few years ago, adding a new $800 high quality sealing glass hatch which looks out in between the inner and outer hulls, new port windows and very nice teak and stained birch interior woodwork. The rest of the boat is mostly plywood covered with linoleum and it is original. You can see in the detail photo a few areas where the linoleum is peeling up and needs to be glued back down with contact cement. The boat has hydraulic steering and an autopilot system. It has a dingy davits so you can hang your dingy off the back with block and tackles and raise and lower it rather than having to tow it behind. The outer pontoons have tons of stowage space so that you can put sails and spare diesel fuel and propane tanks and anchors and all that sort of stuff in the outer hulls and leave the main interior clear of clutter. This also means that the interior cubbies and closets can be used for basic household things like clothing and food rather than having to store sailing equipment and spare lines and sails. Because the boat has a protected prop and rudder and no keel, you can sail it right up to a beach at mid tide and just park it on the sand with a safety line tied to a palm tree. Then play and have a couple drinks on the beach until the tide goes out and comes back in, and then just untie and float back off the beach using a tossed kedging anchor to pull yourself back into the deeper water. This also means that you can scrape and re-paint your own bottom and service the prop and rudder etc. just by beaching the boat rather than having to pay for an expensive haul out. In many parts of the world it is also very difficult to find a facility that can haul out a large multi-hull, so this becomes especially important. The deck is also large enough for big potluck parties on deck with your fellow sailors as well as room to mount kayak racks, and bicycles etc.. Other than one of the back cabin port windows the boat really seems to stay very dry when it is raining and I haven't seen any signs of leaking ceiling or windows. There is also a very nice, recently installed canvas dodger over the cockpit that comes with vinyl surround windows that can zip on and off for using the boat in cold or rainy weather and create a completely enclosed cockpit. The boat comes with seven good used sails. It has two very nice, recently installed Stainless 65 gallon water holding tanks (total 130 gallons) plus diesel tanks for 120 gallons for long passages under diesel power when necessary.
The Bad: The previous owner had this boat for sale a couple years ago with a boat broker for $54,000. However, after cruising on it for many years and making a number of upgrades over the years, he moved inland where he lived a couple hours drive from the boat. When it was at the dock and he wasn't able to check on it regularly, the weather got cold and the batteries stopped charging. That caused the bilge pumps to fail, and the boat has a little trickle leak coming in at the stuffing box on the rudder post that leaks two or three gallons of water per day. Over time, and without anyone noticing it, the back of the boat filled up with water. Once the water got above a through hull meant for ejecting water, and instead of ejecting water the boat took on water. The back of the boat filled up and water covered the engine until the marina staff noticed the back of the boat was tilted down and the bow was up higher out of the water than it should have been. They quickly pumped the water out but while it had water in the back of the boat the plywood of the cubboards swelled and got some silty mud residue in the drawers. The water damaged the starter and the alternator and a few other things like the electric pump motor on one of the toilets. I have not tested any of the electical breakers or anything like that, so there may be things there that need to be addressed. I had a professional mechanic inspect the motor after I bought the boat, and they got it to turn over and there is no obvious sign of water getting into the oil or into the anti-freeze, so I think the motor can likely be restored just by pulling the injectors and flushing with marvel mystery oil and changing the air, oil and fuel filters and putting on new alternator and starter. However, until this work is done and the engine is actually running with a supply of fresh fuel and pumping cooling water reliably you can't know for sure about anything. The boat also needs new batteries. The house power is provided by a bank of six volt daisy chained batteries that are about $75 each from Sams Club to replace and the starting power are two 12 volt marine batteries. In a worst worst case scenario the motor might possibly need a re-build. However, it is a 50HP Perkins 4108 diesel which is an extremely tough and reliable motor developed specifically for marine applications. It has the removable piston sleeves to enable a complete re-build without removing from the boat and the rebuild kits are available for it on ebay for about $800. The Ugly: Fortunately, the water that got in the boat didn't mess up things too bad overall, and the V-berth didn't even get wet at all. The worst part is just the plywood cupboards needing to be cleaned and re-painted and some of them perhaps having the plywood back drawer box rebuilt or sanded so they will slide in and out smoothly. The deck also has a few soft spots. The decks were built as a sandwich with two layers of fiberglass with a balsa oreo filling, and although the fiberglass layer is very strong the balsa filling can rot out if you drill a hole in the deck and don't epoxy seal it properly. The former owner used a three quarter inch drill bit to redrill most of the bolt holes, fill them with epoxy and then re-drill so that water couldn't leak inside the deck. He also used a jig saw set to a quarter inch depth to cut out most of the areas that had developed soft spots over the years and took out the old balsa and replaced it with closed cel rigid foam, and then poured fiberglass resin around the foam panels. He put the cut out top patch back down, sealed the edges of the seam with a layer of fiberglass cloth and then sanded it smooth. Due to this work he did, 80% of the boat has very solid decks which will never have any soft spot problems again, but there are still about three or four days of work that needs to be done patching and restoring the few remaining soft spots. There is only one really bad spot, which is right along the very back edge of the deck by the dingy hoist. The other few spots don't really need to be done in any sort of hurry. You could leave them the way they are for many more years if you aren't so picky about a deck with a bit of flex under foot, but to sailors who really want a solid deck it is just a bit annoying walking because you can feel the deck flex beneath your step in a few small areas and you don't get that nice strudy deck feel that we associate with newer modern boats. Other things that maybe should be done would be changing out the turn-buckles on the rigging and getting new lines. There is nothing obvious wrong with the rigging except that it is original and the equipment is old style. If you are going to just spend most of your time at anchor with mostly motoring trips intra-coastal or inland the rigging should be fine, but I would replace the rigging connections or even re-rig before going hundreds of miles off shore. The previous owner replaced nearly all of the stay locks with brand new equipment and that is very good shape, but one of the back stays needs a new stay lock installed and the turn-buckles themselves appear to be original. The masts are currently unstepped and located at a working boatyard about 2 miles from where the boat is located at the marina. They can re-step the masts for you but you will usually have to schedule it a week or two in advance because they stay very busy, and getting back and forth with be easier after you get the motor running again. The other option for making the boat usuable if you don't get the Perkins running again right away is to mount an outboard motor bracket on the transom and put a 25 HP outboard motor. That would enable you to move the boat through calm waters ok and when there is not a big current to fight, but the inboard needs to be running before you sail the back on a big flowing current or go out onto the ocean. If you need to move the boat to another marina in the meantime, get yourself a Boat US premium membership for $150 per year and then you can call the towing service and have them move the vessel for you. But that will only work for one or two boat moves. You can't just get them to tow you every time you want to go sailing. The boat is being sold AS IS and even though I have checked out a lot of things about it, you will learn more of what little projects need to be done once you start spending time on it. The main batteries are dead and I have not checked out any of the equipment like hot water heater or windlass or air conditioner. The stove looks horrid but the microwave looks good. I think the propane system will probably still be working, but you will want a new galley stove. The refrigerator/ Freezer is a very expensive German brand called Grunert and parts and compressors can be ordered for it. The boat has a spare motor for the fridge unit. It comes with a large, probably 40lb or so, danforth anchor and a long rode. However, the chain that is with the boat is too short, so you will want a long piece of galvanized chain the right diameter to fit on the windlass and shackles to connect the anchor and chain and rode. A swivel is also vital to your ground tackle if you are cruising seriously as well as keeping a spare anchor or two on hand to back up your primary. You are buying a boat, knowing that it needs a number of repairs and upgrades. Some of the things like the breaker box and console switches are original to 1968. They look cool but you may want to upgrade to modern guages and the boat also needs, GPS and VHF and depth sounder for coastal use and you will want radar and solar panels before you go cruising. The mast was unstepped in preparation to upgrade the anchor lights and spreader lights and put on new turnbuckles and a new wind vane and VHF antenea. When we bought the boat at first, my friend wanted to partner with me to turn it into an Air BandB floating apartment in Hilton Head and rent it out for $300 per night since it could be made to sleep up to 12 people with a few basic modifications. We were going to make the necessary rigging and lighting upgrades while the mast was down, but then my wife talked me out of the idea of trying to get into the Air B and B business because it would keep us from being able to go sailing internationally. I still think it would be a terrific idea for someone to do with this boat, and after restoring it I think you could make a lot of money with it as a rental boat, but I just have too many irons in the fire to pursue that now, so that is why the boat is up for sale on Ebay. I had it listed before and my friend talked me out of selling it and I cancelled the auction, but now my wife talked some sense into my head, so we are putting it back up on Ebay again. If you have other questions about the vessel please feel free to give me a call. I''ll answer any questions that I know the answer to, and for any others you are welcome to come and inspect the boat in person. I highly recommend folks to come inspect it in person prior to bidding, as that is the only way to truly get an accurate idea of the actual condition of it, how much work is involved in the restoration and whether it is a good fit for your money/spare time ratio. Please consider carefully before bidding. Again, the vessel is being sold As Is and payment is due in full within 24 hours. Thanks for your interest. This is a no-reserve auction and the boat will sell to the highest bidder regardless of whether we break even, make money or lose our shirts. The auction closes Saturday, just after 3:30 pm Eastern time, so if you want to win the auction make sure to get your best bid in ahead of time or else set the alarm on your phone to tune in the final few minutes of the auction and monitor your bidding status. Sometimes the final few minutes will deternine the winner of the auction. If you have questions feel free to give me a call. William (970) 319-4361
The boat can stay at the very nice marina where it is in Charleston SC for $619 per month, but if that is too expensive for you there are several other marinas in the area which are more affordable but don't have quite as many nice amenities. The place where the boat is has nice hot showers, wifi, 24 hr sailor's lounge, electricity and water at the boat and laundry facilities and they allow you to stay on your boat. It also is a place with a really nice community of fellow sailors whose skills and companionship is a great benefit to one another. To save money on a long-term live-aboard situation you could also set up your own mooring and moor the boat out for free in any one of the nice public anchorages in the area, but to do that you would need to install solar panels or wind generator to run anchor light and bilge pump. MOVING A BIG SAILBOAT WITH A BOAT MOVER CAN BE VERY EXPENSIVE. DUE TO THE FACT THAT THIS IS A MULTI-HULL IT WILL BE NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO MOVE IT BY TRUCK. THE ONLY REALISTIC PLAN IS TO KEEP THE BOAT WHERE IT IS UNTIL THE MECHANICAL ASPECTS ARE RESTORED TO GOOD WORKING ORDER AND THEN MOVE IT BY WATER WITH A COMPETENT CREW. I AM HAPPY TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE OPTIONS IN THAT REGARD IF YOU WANT TO GIVE ME A CALL. AND NOW IF YOU AREN'T YET TIRED OF READING A FEW INSIGHTS TO SHARE ABOUT BUYING BOATS AND CHOOSING THE RIGHT BOAT TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS. Every boat is a project boat. Some boats are more “project” than “boat.” The good ones are more boat than project. This trimaran is huge, spacious and relatively comfortable accomodations to begin your nautical dreams if you are new to sailing. But it has several hundred hours of tedius little projects to be completed before taking it out into the open ocean. I say this again, because so many people shopping for boats on Ebay, seem to think they can just purchase a boat and then two weeks later learn to sail it en-route to some exotic island destination. That is not how sailing works. That is a good recipe to get yourself or someone else hurt and lose your boat. If that is the way you approach sailing, then it is better to purchase a cheap old boat, because at least when you get into trouble with it you won't be destroying a half million dollar yacht running into a pier or or bridge or getting caught by currents or wind that you hadn't factored into your reckless equations of majestic blissful cruising. If you have never sailed before, or only done limited lake or bay sailing, then buy this huge and serious vessel to live on at the dock while you learn to do ocean sailing in a much smaller compact ocean cruiser that will teach you the skills you need to navigate and sail safely without such huge forces of physics being subject to your level of inexperience. If you are an experienced Blue Water ocean sailor then these words are statements of truth whith you live by when you choose your weather window and plan carefully for your first shake-down-cruises. But if you are looking at buying your first boat, then take me seriously. The ocean is a serious place for people with real sailing skills. It is a not good place to practice your learning curve for a novice. Who we are: I teach sailing and cruising professionally part-time and my wife and I are ocean cruisers with thousands of miles of experience cruising the various ports and harbors of the ocean. We are a sort of Humane Society for good old worthy vessels. Whenever we can find a great classic boat through our contacts in the marine culture or through our friends who are marina managers, and we know it will be a good match to meet the needs of some aspiring cruisers or live-aboard anchor sailors, we try to rescue these good boats from oblivion and help find new owners who will restore and refit them to keep them sailing for the next generation. As often as we can, and time-permitting we try to restore a few of these classic ships to cruise ready condition and then sell them at fair market prices. We are lucky to be good enough at that restoration process that we actually make a living doing it and it supports our cruising habit. You can actually make pretty good money buying a good ol' boat for $30K or whatever, and spending another $10k or $20k and a few months restoring it and sailing it and then selling it for $100,000. But sometimes, we find a good and deserving boat, but we just don't have enough time to fit the restoration into our own schedule, and so we adopt it until we can find a worthy new owner, and hopefully get it to someone who will give it the love and attention and hours of work of restoration. We are very committed to helping middle class people continue to be a part of the cruising culture. Often times, yachting is thought of exclusively as a rich mans hobby. And buying and maintaining a ready-to-go world cruiser can require hundreds of thousands of dollars. But it doesn't necessary have to be that way for someone willing to invest sweat equity in a boat with some projects to complete. What this lifestyle does require however, is a fortitude for pushing through lots of tedius little tasks, some of them full of dirt and mud and grease and sweat and the frustration of trying to work through installation and maintenance manuals and order little $12 parts that take three weeks to arrive from some obscure distributor in Japan or Norway. You have to have a willingness to dive into learning new skills. Basic diesel mechanical skills and basic 12volt and 120 volt electrical skills are as necessary to every serious sailor as is the knowledge of safe anchoring and safe sailing. After all, if you can't change your own oil or your own filters or fix a short in the wire to your GPS you had better not go sailing any further than you can call and get a rescue tow from TowBoat US. If you want to learn all these skills of safe vessel operation, navigation and repair and maintenance skills then there are ample resources to acquire that knowledge. I can refer you to dozens of terrific step-by-step books with great photo illustrations and fantastic youtube how-to videos for almost every aspect of restoring a classic sailboat. But you have to have the patience and willingness to develop those skills if you haven't already learned them. Setting sail before you have that skill set is as unwise as letting a twelve year old driver take a car on the Interstate. They may think they know how to drive because they have done it on the go-cart track at the fun park, but you and I know better. If you do not possess this sort of handy knowledge or the willingness to acquire it, you can still join and participate in the nautical life-style, but you need to get competent experienced sailors to help you move any large vessel that you are going to take out on the ocean, and you should spend most of your time in the bay, on the lake or close to shore on calm wind days. About this boat, the GOOD, The BAD and the UGLY. The Good: Really the best thing about this boat is it's huge interior and large spacious deck. It is currently set up with three double cabins. Several thousand dollars was spent on renovating the V-berth cabin just a few years ago, adding a new $800 high quality sealing glass hatch which looks out in between the inner and outer hulls, new port windows and very nice teak and stained birch interior woodwork. The rest of the boat is mostly plywood covered with linoleum and it is original. You can see in the detail photo a few areas where the linoleum is peeling up and needs to be glued back down with contact cement. The boat has hydraulic steering and an autopilot system. It has a dingy davits so you can hang your dingy off the back with block and tackles and raise and lower it rather than having to tow it behind. The outer pontoons have tons of stowage space so that you can put sails and spare diesel fuel and propane tanks and anchors and all that sort of stuff in the outer hulls and leave the main interior clear of clutter. This also means that the interior cubbies and closets can be used for basic household things like clothing and food rather than having to store sailing equipment and spare lines and sails. Because the boat has a protected prop and rudder and no keel, you can sail it right up to a beach at mid tide and just park it on the sand with a safety line tied to a palm tree. Then play and have a couple drinks on the beach until the tide goes out and comes back in, and then just untie and float back off the beach using a tossed kedging anchor to pull yourself back into the deeper water. This also means that you can scrape and re-paint your own bottom and service the prop and rudder etc. just by beaching the boat rather than having to pay for an expensive haul out. In many parts of the world it is also very difficult to find a facility that can haul out a large multi-hull, so this becomes especially important. The deck is also large enough for big potluck parties on deck with your fellow sailors as well as room to mount kayak racks, and bicycles etc.. Other than one of the back cabin port windows the boat really seems to stay very dry when it is raining and I haven't seen any signs of leaking ceiling or windows. There is also a very nice, recently installed canvas dodger over the cockpit that comes with vinyl surround windows that can zip on and off for using the boat in cold or rainy weather and create a completely enclosed cockpit. The boat comes with seven good used sails. It has two very nice, recently installed Stainless 65 gallon water holding tanks (total 130 gallons) plus diesel tanks for 120 gallons for long passages under diesel power when necessary.
The Bad: The previous owner had this boat for sale a couple years ago with a boat broker for $54,000. However, after cruising on it for many years and making a number of upgrades over the years, he moved inland where he lived a couple hours drive from the boat. When it was at the dock and he wasn't able to check on it regularly, the weather got cold and the batteries stopped charging. That caused the bilge pumps to fail, and the boat has a little trickle leak coming in at the stuffing box on the rudder post that leaks two or three gallons of water per day. Over time, and without anyone noticing it, the back of the boat filled up with water. Once the water got above a through hull meant for ejecting water, and instead of ejecting water the boat took on water. The back of the boat filled up and water covered the engine until the marina staff noticed the back of the boat was tilted down and the bow was up higher out of the water than it should have been. They quickly pumped the water out but while it had water in the back of the boat the plywood of the cubboards swelled and got some silty mud residue in the drawers. The water damaged the starter and the alternator and a few other things like the electric pump motor on one of the toilets. I have not tested any of the electical breakers or anything like that, so there may be things there that need to be addressed. I had a professional mechanic inspect the motor after I bought the boat, and they got it to turn over and there is no obvious sign of water getting into the oil or into the anti-freeze, so I think the motor can likely be restored just by pulling the injectors and flushing with marvel mystery oil and changing the air, oil and fuel filters and putting on new alternator and starter. However, until this work is done and the engine is actually running with a supply of fresh fuel and pumping cooling water reliably you can't know for sure about anything. The boat also needs new batteries. The house power is provided by a bank of six volt daisy chained batteries that are about $75 each from Sams Club to replace and the starting power are two 12 volt marine batteries. In a worst worst case scenario the motor might possibly need a re-build. However, it is a 50HP Perkins 4108 diesel which is an extremely tough and reliable motor developed specifically for marine applications. It has the removable piston sleeves to enable a complete re-build without removing from the boat and the rebuild kits are available for it on ebay for about $800. The Ugly: Fortunately, the water that got in the boat didn't mess up things too bad overall, and the V-berth didn't even get wet at all. The worst part is just the plywood cupboards needing to be cleaned and re-painted and some of them perhaps having the plywood back drawer box rebuilt or sanded so they will slide in and out smoothly. The deck also has a few soft spots. The decks were built as a sandwich with two layers of fiberglass with a balsa oreo filling, and although the fiberglass layer is very strong the balsa filling can rot out if you drill a hole in the deck and don't epoxy seal it properly. The former owner used a three quarter inch drill bit to redrill most of the bolt holes, fill them with epoxy and then re-drill so that water couldn't leak inside the deck. He also used a jig saw set to a quarter inch depth to cut out most of the areas that had developed soft spots over the years and took out the old balsa and replaced it with closed cel rigid foam, and then poured fiberglass resin around the foam panels. He put the cut out top patch back down, sealed the edges of the seam with a layer of fiberglass cloth and then sanded it smooth. Due to this work he did, 80% of the boat has very solid decks which will never have any soft spot problems again, but there are still about three or four days of work that needs to be done patching and restoring the few remaining soft spots. There is only one really bad spot, which is right along the very back edge of the deck by the dingy hoist. The other few spots don't really need to be done in any sort of hurry. You could leave them the way they are for many more years if you aren't so picky about a deck with a bit of flex under foot, but to sailors who really want a solid deck it is just a bit annoying walking because you can feel the deck flex beneath your step in a few small areas and you don't get that nice strudy deck feel that we associate with newer modern boats. Other things that maybe should be done would be changing out the turn-buckles on the rigging and getting new lines. There is nothing obvious wrong with the rigging except that it is original and the equipment is old style. If you are going to just spend most of your time at anchor with mostly motoring trips intra-coastal or inland the rigging should be fine, but I would replace the rigging connections or even re-rig before going hundreds of miles off shore. The previous owner replaced nearly all of the stay locks with brand new equipment and that is very good shape, but one of the back stays needs a new stay lock installed and the turn-buckles themselves appear to be original. The masts are currently unstepped and located at a working boatyard about 2 miles from where the boat is located at the marina. They can re-step the masts for you but you will usually have to schedule it a week or two in advance because they stay very busy, and getting back and forth with be easier after you get the motor running again. The other option for making the boat usuable if you don't get the Perkins running again right away is to mount an outboard motor bracket on the transom and put a 25 HP outboard motor. That would enable you to move the boat through calm waters ok and when there is not a big current to fight, but the inboard needs to be running before you sail the back on a big flowing current or go out onto the ocean. If you need to move the boat to another marina in the meantime, get yourself a Boat US premium membership for $150 per year and then you can call the towing service and have them move the vessel for you. But that will only work for one or two boat moves. You can't just get them to tow you every time you want to go sailing. The boat is being sold AS IS and even though I have checked out a lot of things about it, you will learn more of what little projects need to be done once you start spending time on it. The main batteries are dead and I have not checked out any of the equipment like hot water heater or windlass or air conditioner. The stove looks horrid but the microwave looks good. I think the propane system will probably still be working, but you will want a new galley stove. The refrigerator/ Freezer is a very expensive German brand called Grunert and parts and compressors can be ordered for it. The boat has a spare motor for the fridge unit. It comes with a large, probably 40lb or so, danforth anchor and a long rode. However, the chain that is with the boat is too short, so you will want a long piece of galvanized chain the right diameter to fit on the windlass and shackles to connect the anchor and chain and rode. A swivel is also vital to your ground tackle if you are cruising seriously as well as keeping a spare anchor or two on hand to back up your primary. You are buying a boat, knowing that it needs a number of repairs and upgrades. Some of the things like the breaker box and console switches are original to 1968. They look cool but you may want to upgrade to modern guages and the boat also needs, GPS and VHF and depth sounder for coastal use and you will want radar and solar panels before you go cruising. The mast was unstepped in preparation to upgrade the anchor lights and spreader lights and put on new turnbuckles and a new wind vane and VHF antenea. When we bought the boat at first, my friend wanted to partner with me to turn it into an Air BandB floating apartment in Hilton Head and rent it out for $300 per night since it could be made to sleep up to 12 people with a few basic modifications. We were going to make the necessary rigging and lighting upgrades while the mast was down, but then my wife talked me out of the idea of trying to get into the Air B and B business because it would keep us from being able to go sailing internationally. I still think it would be a terrific idea for someone to do with this boat, and after restoring it I think you could make a lot of money with it as a rental boat, but I just have too many irons in the fire to pursue that now, so that is why the boat is up for sale on Ebay. I had it listed before and my friend talked me out of selling it and I cancelled the auction, but now my wife talked some sense into my head, so we are putting it back up on Ebay again. If you have other questions about the vessel please feel free to give me a call. I''ll answer any questions that I know the answer to, and for any others you are welcome to come and inspect the boat in person. I highly recommend folks to come inspect it in person prior to bidding, as that is the only way to truly get an accurate idea of the actual condition of it, how much work is involved in the restoration and whether it is a good fit for your money/spare time ratio. Please consider carefully before bidding. Again, the vessel is being sold As Is and payment is due in full within 24 hours. Thanks for your interest. This is a no-reserve auction and the boat will sell to the highest bidder regardless of whether we break even, make money or lose our shirts. The auction closes Saturday, just after 3:30 pm Eastern time, so if you want to win the auction make sure to get your best bid in ahead of time or else set the alarm on your phone to tune in the final few minutes of the auction and monitor your bidding status. Sometimes the final few minutes will deternine the winner of the auction. If you have questions feel free to give me a call. William (970) 319-4361