jovial_cynic
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2017
- Messages
- 83
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Zorro Del Mar
- Vessel Make
- 1972 Tollycraft Tri-Cabin
Hey folks -
My wife and I have enjoyed our 40' Tolly for the past year, and we're now thinking about selling the house and moving onboard a boat for good. (Or at least until the housing market comes back down so we can sell high and buy low!)
Anyhow, the 40' Tolly is great for vacationing, but the size isn't right for our family... which includes my wife and myself, plus our 3 teenage daughters. At a minimum, we're looking at 3 staterooms (our younger two have shared a room forever), 2 heads w/ showers, which probably means something around 50 feet long.
It's strange to me that in the Northwest, you can find a decent 40' boat for $50k, but you can barely look at a 50' boat for less than $200k!
Well, I'd love to hear some suggestions.
Here are some important notes:
* We live on the Puget Sound, and we want to take the boat up and down the Sound every weekend, and take an occasional trip up to Friday Harbor. One day, maybe Alaska. So the boat needs to be able to handle choppier waters.
* My kids aren't hard on furniture or anything, but I would like to stay away from interiors made of cardboard or balsa. I'm being facetious, obviously, but I've heard some things about certain boats as it relates to interior workmanship, and that's of some importance to me.
* Fiberglass.
* A big galley. My wife LOVES to cook, and that's her happy place.
So... I think those are our major requirements.
Thanks!
My wife and I have enjoyed our 40' Tolly for the past year, and we're now thinking about selling the house and moving onboard a boat for good. (Or at least until the housing market comes back down so we can sell high and buy low!)
Anyhow, the 40' Tolly is great for vacationing, but the size isn't right for our family... which includes my wife and myself, plus our 3 teenage daughters. At a minimum, we're looking at 3 staterooms (our younger two have shared a room forever), 2 heads w/ showers, which probably means something around 50 feet long.
It's strange to me that in the Northwest, you can find a decent 40' boat for $50k, but you can barely look at a 50' boat for less than $200k!
Well, I'd love to hear some suggestions.
Here are some important notes:
* We live on the Puget Sound, and we want to take the boat up and down the Sound every weekend, and take an occasional trip up to Friday Harbor. One day, maybe Alaska. So the boat needs to be able to handle choppier waters.
* My kids aren't hard on furniture or anything, but I would like to stay away from interiors made of cardboard or balsa. I'm being facetious, obviously, but I've heard some things about certain boats as it relates to interior workmanship, and that's of some importance to me.
* Fiberglass.
* A big galley. My wife LOVES to cook, and that's her happy place.
So... I think those are our major requirements.
Thanks!