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If you're looking for a pedal boat here's your chance. You'll have to go over to Bainbridge to pick it up. Here's the info from Tami... IMPOUND & AUCTION & DISPOSAL Impound/Public Auction Pelican Pedal boat Sealed bid. Deadline...
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I still owe you my detailed notes and thoughts on this process and I'm holding those back for now, but I wanted to let you know what is up with our offer and the boat. Wednesday Dawn, My Broker, My Surveyor and I were in Blaine and taking the boat...
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Tomorrow Dawn and I are going to Blaine to test sail the Pearson 424 we're currently evaluating for purchase. My hope is everything goes well and the whole thing is uneventful. It would be a nice change to have some good news this week. Assuming it...
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As promised here is a list of fees associated with buying your own boat these do not include any loan fees, or insurance: Sales Tax 9% of the sales price WA State Registration .5% of the sales price (plus some nominal fee ~$30) Boat Survey $14-$17/foot...
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Well the offer was accepted and now we jut have to do the sea trial and the survey. All of that will take a few weeks. I'll pass along information as we find out more. I'll post something up about fees for sure as there was no good information...
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Dawn and I made an offer on a boat today. That is just step one, for those who aren't familiar with it the process go like this: Courtesy visit. You get to go look at the boat crawl around it but not sail or motor or leave the dock. - DONE Offer to...
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I'm actively searching for the boat right now and have a couple of good leads and I don't want to tip off anyone. ;-) If I give up on any of the current leads I'll post details about them and lots of pics. I HIGHLY recommend you have a digital...
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One of the things I'm starting to give more thought to is the secondary propulsion system (the engine) that we'll have aboard. My goals are to have a more efficient (greener) system and one which is as quiet as possible and that the system should...
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Dawn and I are starting to go from the pure fantasy mode to the getting real mode about buying our boat and move our plans to go cruising to the next stage. Here's an email I sent here last week and thought you might like to follow (and comment on...
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I think this is a better look at the prices than the line chart in my last post. This is a count of boats at the same price also showing the rig of the boats at that same price. There is definitely a grouping of boats at US$60K and another at just shy...
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I wanted to get a feel for what is available out there in my range and thought YachtWorld was as good a place as any to do some analysis. I started out by doing three separate queries for keyword Ketch, Cutter and Yawl all with the additional criteria...
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The Seven Seas Cruising Association (SSCA) puts out a monthly newsletter with articles from its members and these articles also include information about the type, length and draft of author’s vessel. In a demonstration of what a geek I am I have...
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I wrote an article back in May 2006 about surveyor recommendations from posts sent to the Pac NW Sailing/Cascadia lists dating back to November 2005. Back then when I had searched for information on Surveyors there were a ton of previous threads seeking...
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Updated with input from Dawn After the Seattle Boat Show last winter, I felt I had a hard time remembering the boats and especially how one boat felt as compared to another. I was basically wandering around the boats, opening all the hatches but not really...
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