I’m looking for an excuse to trade around for a good sailboat that can be brought up to shape for circumnavigation.
Rent “Waterworld” and get a look at that plan.
It’d be difficult to secure a boat.
“I’m looking for an excuse to trade around for a good sailboat that can be brought up to shape for circumnavigation.”
I’m a liveaboard on a small cruising sailboat in JAX, let me know your requirements and I’ll keep an eye out; I do see cheap fixer upper sailboats regularly...not necessarily exactly when you want them.
One thing many new people do is insist on a blue water, go anywhere boat, then they find out the price is in the sky, both to buy and maintain, and 99.99% of the time, that boat is not going to sail through blue water conditions. With proper preparation much humbler boats have circumnavigated on much more frugal budgets. My favorite example is the Martin family, who began their circumnavigation as newlyweds aboard a Cal24 and completed it as parents of a family of 5...and they had next to nothing, worked his way around the world.
As far as a SHTF platform, this is my home, I already live the lifestyle seperated from the electrical grid snd all services...my bug out means I raise anchor, head for Nassau and watch the news. If its long term, there are few pkaces in the Caribbean where s dollar goes farther than the Dominican, many cruisers like Panama, Guatemala has what amounts to a cruiser capital in the Rio Dulces, although theres a lot of unrest there lately...some people say they get palatial service in Colombia as long as they never leave the marina.
One huge sailboat...just under 50’, I believe...tight as a drum but needs handyman everywhere, no engine, no mast...the guy just uses it as a houseboat and he did say once he’d take 5k for it. He even found a mast for it for $800 but balked when he found the cost of the truck to bring it and the crane to set it were more than the mast...and $800 buys a lot of beer, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, let me know just what you’re interested in and if I see something I’ll shoot you a line.
“I’m looking for an excuse to trade around for a good sailboat that can be brought up to shape for circumnavigation.”
That was, or could be again, a dream of mine. I sailed for many years on Lake Erie. I have sailed in the Bahamas, and in Ireland. Circumnavigation would require going around the horns in a bugout situation...avoiding the Panama and Suez Canals. Properly equipped, one could find that desert island paradise...especially with some foreknowledge and planning. Then the world could go to hell in a handbasket and one could be comfortable and safe.
For now though, I am prepared to bugin for as long as necessary in our quasi-rural setting. We have a surrey and horses trained as a team to pull it. My ancestors were Marblehead seamen and pioneers, they fought in the Revolution and in the Civil War (and those that followed) and it is in my blood. We are survivors. We are overcomers. Our God is Good!