klee wyck
Guru
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2014
- Messages
- 1,022
- Location
- USA PNW
- Vessel Name
- Domino and Libra
- Vessel Make
- Malcom Tennant 20M and Noordzee Kotter 52
Question:
Can a well-found 32’Grand Banks with an asking price of only $35,000 actually exist in this market? The answer is YES. Prospective buyers should not be suspicious of the below-market price. Ebbtide is a handsome, honest boat. All upgrades are high quality and as described. She shows well and will certainly become the “pride and joy” for the next lucky owners.
Allow me to add that Bob & Jill are the warmest people you will ever meet. We were treated to a very enjoyable sunny afternoon cruise of Bellingham Bay.
Unfortunately, the engine space access of a 32’ Grand Banks is intended for younger folks without knee and hip joint issues. If this were not the case we would already be the next lucky owners!
Don Miner
7 Knots
Without any intent to change the mind of 7 and with much respect to those of you who like to spend lots of time in the mechanical spaces of your boat, I offer this perspective as a form of 'the minority report' on the above comment.
Boats are compelling from any number of perspectives to include living and spending time on the water, cruising for the sake of cruising or going places you like or have not yet been, and as pieces of equipment to exercise your mechanical hobbies on. For me, the first two apply and the last one does not.
I was trained and am accomplished in the natural sciences. I enjoy that activity to no end partly, I am sure, because I am good at it. I am not naturally mechanical, am not good at it, and do not particularly enjoy it likely for that reason. I can certainly earn more in the natural science activity than I can save by doing my own service or repair work.
So that leaves the risk or problem of that kind of work necessary while cruising. I will certainly do my best even in a tough compartment in this case but the reality is I will only have so much potential to change the outcome.
So what? With all due respect to Ebbtide as I love this boat, she is unlikely to ever venture real far from help. A tow subscription and a checkbook....we are back in business. See avatar, this is coming from a man that has an engine room that at least four grown men can stand up in at one time so I am not defending my own turf here.
But consider that I have spent many multiples of Ebbtides asking price for that luxury. With the difference, I can pay for anything that will ever need doing in the mechanical spaces of Ebbtide.
And that is my long winded point here. I feel like Ebbtide is a great well found boat at an incredible price which by many accounts has seen exemplary care. That is a rare and precious combination. If her mechanical space is the one negative among many pluses, that almost endears her more to folks like me. Now I have an excuse to pay someone else with the money I have in my pocket from an incredible value offering like this.
For the record, I have never met Bob and Jill though I wish I had. Not being a fly bridge guy but appreciative of the Grand Banks look and quality, I think this might be one of the best boat offerings in terms of value that I have ever encountered. Good luck to her and her owners, current and future.
I hope she stays around B'ham.