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 4pm 09/22/08. 2 Bainbridge Harbor Master 80 Madison...

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 to Pt. Roberts to be hauled-out. The Surveyor and...

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 does go well just the Survey remains. Wish us luck...

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 (varies by Surveyor) Haul Out - $300-$400 (varies...

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 on closing costs and all that.

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 Purchase by Buyer (Dawn and I) - DONE Offer Acceptance...

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 camera and take pictures of everything, it has...

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 meet our propulsion and battery charging needs...

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) my thought process. I looked at all the < $70K...

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 of US$70K. With the very small numbers of boats at...