What liveaboard for £2000?

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The recent posts about buying to a budget made me curious as to the answers I'd get to this...

I have £2,000. What yacht could I buy to liveaboard and do some cruising with?

Cheers,

Nathan
 
A project...

The best you could do would be to pick up someone else's project boat, most likely in the form of an old hull, if you are lucky with a mast. You could even find a wrecked boat that was written off.

Then you could invest in all the repairs and new equipment over time, hoping to find as much of it used as possible and to do all of the work yourself where practical.

Your end budget would still exceed £2000, but you could invest it over time and invest as much of your own time as possible rather than money.

And lastly, a bit depends upon your definition of "living". If pitching a tent (or a boomtent) on a floating hulk, with no plumbing and a single portable gas burner consitutes "liveaboard" for you, then you might find something for £2000...
 
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Many years ago I knew of a bloke who lived on a Silhouette(18ft) with his dog. He cruised up and down the East coast. I guess it depends on what level of comfort you need/want.
 
What's wrong with the 2 you've already got?

You could probably get an early GRP classic - W22 or Nomad or W25, possibly even a Cirrus. A Mirror Offshore like Dylan's or a wooden Folk boat are very different beasts that may occur at that price. But the Westerlies will give you standing headroom which is a big help for liveaboard. Not many old Plywood jobbies left & suspect but a GRP Caprice might be available. Quite a few grp canal & river cruisers would do if you only want to live on it rather than go anywhere.

Easiest thing, as you know, is to search a few brokerage sites. But that wouldn't start a fight on here would it?
 
Real bargins are unlikely to be on brokers sites. Best wander round yards or phone them. Must be loads they want to see the back of. What about that one that Seanick found, needs fixing, but apart from the sails, mostly there.
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Easiest thing, as you know, is to search a few brokerage sites. But that wouldn't start a fight on here would it?
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I wasn't trying to start a fight, honestly, I wasn't.. aren't.

I was just curious as to the answers that would be given. I'm not after a third boat, 2 is enough, and I'm trying to get that down to one at the moment.

I bought Kudu for £2,000, then spent a few hundred quid on a shore power installation, and I'm now on my third year aboard. Of course, I've done a fair few improvements since, but she changed very little in the first year. This year she's got hot/cold running water!

Anyway, as I said, it was just supposed to be a light hearted jest at would people would live on given a 2k budget.
 
Living alone on a small boat, fair enough.

It's when there are two you need the space, storage etc. Not just because there's two but because you both have very slightly different ideas of how and when things should be done, where things should live, who wants the radio on and who the cd etc. etc.

You need a bit of your own space then, if it's only a crawl in fo'c'sl.
 
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Living alone on a small boat, fair enough.

It's when there are two you need the space, storage etc. Not just because there's two but because you both have very slightly different ideas of how and when things should be done, where things should live, who wants the radio on and who the cd etc. etc.

You need a bit of your own space then, if it's only a crawl in fo'c'sl.
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Living with somebody in a 5 bed house is too crowded for me. I'll stick to my own little boaty world I think.

Not that I'm a miserable grumpy sod or anything. I mean, I've had 4 people stay over on Kudu before now, and they've all been well entertained, but I like them to sod off at the end of the weekend :p
 
Many years ago, soon after I'd started my first job in London, I was on holiday on my dad's boat on the East Coast of Scotland. I think it was in Arbroath that we tied up next to a beautiful wooden 2.5 tonner - rather like a Hillyard 2.5 tonner, but the owner said it wasn't. The owner said she was for sale. I was seriously tempted to buy her and live aboard, finding somewhere on the Thames to moor. It would probably have paid me to do that - monthly rental of bed-sits would have balanced out in a year or so! I didn't do it - but I would have been quite happy living on board her. No headroom, even for me (5'7"), but who cares about creature comforts a) when you're 22, b) when the vessel concerned is beautiful?
 
Simple. If you ask round at many clubs you will find there are old GRP boats, things like the very early Westerlies, that people cant sell and are prepared to give away or just take £500 for.. Ask at brokers or look at ads and you'll get nowhere

We had a perfectly sound but not finished 27 ft long keeler chopped up and taken to the dumpit because we literally couldnt give it away.
 
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