I have the opportunity to buy an abondoned boat at a boatyard. Lookin inside, the storage reciepts say it is a 27 Columbia. The pictures I find on the internet, it looks like a 28. I can get it for less than a $1000. It has been setting for a long time. Where one ot the stands is positioned the hull oil canned pretty good and there is a crack about 4 inches long about 5 inches behing the keel that is running perpendicular(sp). IS this a cored hull or a solid glass hull?It has a crapload of sails and a diesel engine. Don't know if it runs. THe inside is cluttered with a buch of odds and ends parts. If it can't be brought back from the dead I am wondering if it can be parted out and maybe turn a little profit. The Mast and boom are in excellent shape. Thanks.
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I have the opportunity to buy an abondoned boat at a boatyard. Lookin inside, the storage reciepts say it is a 27 Columbia. The pictures I find on the internet, it looks like a 28. I can get it for less than a $1000. It has been setting for a long time. Where one ot the stands is positioned the hull oil canned pretty good and there is a crack about 4 inches long about 5 inches behing the keel that is running perpendicular(sp). IS this a cored hull or a solid glass hull?It has a crapload of sails and a diesel engine. Don't know if it runs. THe inside is cluttered with a buch of odds and ends parts. If it can't be brought back from the dead I am wondering if it can be parted out and maybe turn a little profit. The Mast and boom are in excellent shape. Thanks.
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Scott
Make it a project for profit
Why pay somebody to remove their corpse? They may be willing to pay you. If you really want a project and have the place to work on it, why not ask them (whoever "they" may be)to pay you for transport to your place? You don't make it clear who wants to sell. The boatyard may want the space and can't collect fees from an owner who disappeared. The mast and boom may be a bonus, but if there was anything of value, wouldn't it be gone by now?
Why pay somebody to remove their corpse? They may be willing to pay you. If you really want a project and have the place to work on it, why not ask them (whoever "they" may be)to pay you for transport to your place? You don't make it clear who wants to sell. The boatyard may want the space and can't collect fees from an owner who disappeared. The mast and boom may be a bonus, but if there was anything of value, wouldn't it be gone by now?
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Scott
Make it a project for profit
Why pay somebody to remove their corpse? They may be willing to pay you. If you really want a project and have the place to work on it, why not ask them (whoever "they" may be)to pay you for transport to your place? You don't make it clear who wants to sell. The boatyard may want the space and can't collect fees from an owner who disappeared. The mast and boom may be a bonus, but if there was anything of value, wouldn't it be gone by now?
Why pay somebody to remove their corpse? They may be willing to pay you. If you really want a project and have the place to work on it, why not ask them (whoever "they" may be)to pay you for transport to your place? You don't make it clear who wants to sell. The boatyard may want the space and can't collect fees from an owner who disappeared. The mast and boom may be a bonus, but if there was anything of value, wouldn't it be gone by now?
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Glen
Boat Yard
This is a boatyard selling the boat. Everything is in the boat. The boat yard knows there is value in the salvage of the boat but doesn't want to deal with it. They don't want to give it away either.
This is a boatyard selling the boat. Everything is in the boat. The boat yard knows there is value in the salvage of the boat but doesn't want to deal with it. They don't want to give it away either.
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Glen
Boat Yard
This is a boatyard selling the boat. Everything is in the boat. The boat yard knows there is value in the salvage of the boat but doesn't want to deal with it. They don't want to give it away either.
This is a boatyard selling the boat. Everything is in the boat. The boat yard knows there is value in the salvage of the boat but doesn't want to deal with it. They don't want to give it away either.
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Augie Byllott
Abandoned Columbia
Any idea of the price of a 27 or 28 foot Columbia of the vintage you are looking at? Could be that the price of getting this one up, running, and in the water wouldn't be far from one that is ready to go. Because of problems not readily apparent at the outset, many 'project' boats never get to sail.
Any idea of the price of a 27 or 28 foot Columbia of the vintage you are looking at? Could be that the price of getting this one up, running, and in the water wouldn't be far from one that is ready to go. Because of problems not readily apparent at the outset, many 'project' boats never get to sail.
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Augie Byllott
Abandoned Columbia
Any idea of the price of a 27 or 28 foot Columbia of the vintage you are looking at? Could be that the price of getting this one up, running, and in the water wouldn't be far from one that is ready to go. Because of problems not readily apparent at the outset, many 'project' boats never get to sail.
Any idea of the price of a 27 or 28 foot Columbia of the vintage you are looking at? Could be that the price of getting this one up, running, and in the water wouldn't be far from one that is ready to go. Because of problems not readily apparent at the outset, many 'project' boats never get to sail.
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Glen
Abandoned Columbia
Augie, I was starting to think on the same line. I have considered if I get it, I would gut it, and sell the parts. I just am not sure if I would really turn any kind of profit off of it. I would need to gut it quickly and cut the rest of it up so I would not have to pay storage. If I could find a buyer for the mast I would jump on it because then I know there would be a profit.
Augie, I was starting to think on the same line. I have considered if I get it, I would gut it, and sell the parts. I just am not sure if I would really turn any kind of profit off of it. I would need to gut it quickly and cut the rest of it up so I would not have to pay storage. If I could find a buyer for the mast I would jump on it because then I know there would be a profit.
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Glen
Abandoned Columbia
Augie, I was starting to think on the same line. I have considered if I get it, I would gut it, and sell the parts. I just am not sure if I would really turn any kind of profit off of it. I would need to gut it quickly and cut the rest of it up so I would not have to pay storage. If I could find a buyer for the mast I would jump on it because then I know there would be a profit.
Augie, I was starting to think on the same line. I have considered if I get it, I would gut it, and sell the parts. I just am not sure if I would really turn any kind of profit off of it. I would need to gut it quickly and cut the rest of it up so I would not have to pay storage. If I could find a buyer for the mast I would jump on it because then I know there would be a profit.
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