I recently let a sailboat, that I've been searching 2 years for, slip away because of the 4 hour one-way drive to check it out. How far would you be willing to travel to checkout a trailerable sailboat that you've been looking for?
Great answer! I drove at least 3000 miles over two years and flew to Maryland and the Carolinas looking at boats. Settled on a boat in Charleston. You shouldn’t think twice about a four hour trip. Just do it!Whatever it took if the right boat.
There is also a FB site called "Sailing Vessels for Sale by Owner"I'm currently negotiating with the seller of a trailerable boat 4,200 km by road from my house. It's the closest one I've been able to find that meets my criteria in nearly a year of shopping.
Maybe I'm too fussy. I would love to find something closer but I realized months ago that the odds don't favour that.
Incidentally, I recently discovered that Facebook Marketplace has become a popular place to sell boats. Not having a Facebook account I didn't even think to look there. I discovered a few weeks ago that a boat I probably would have been quite happy with, and that is so close I can actually see it if I stand on my roof and use binoculars, sold on Facebook Marketplace. So that's now in my search strategy.
I didn't know that! Yes, they must be fairly rare as I've never seen one for sale in the U.S. It's definitely a boat I would consider, especially if I wanted an older boat to fix up--which I might, in a couple of years.There were about 500 built in the US under license from Rob Legg.