What liveaboard for £2000?

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

Way over 2k but this seems a bargain

Ps.Its on Apollo Duch under house boats (not anything to do with me)
EX Roal Naval survey vessel. PERFECT FOR CONVERSION. ABSOLUTE GIVE AWAY PRICE OF £17,500. DUE TO PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES THIS BOAT IS BEING GIVEN AWAY FOR A QUICK SALE. No timewasters. She needs a good home and a lot of work but she is strucurally sound. She would make an ideal houseboat or she could be put back to her former glory of a survey vessel. I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME AS I AM LEAVING THE COUNTRY.
Status: Available

Price: GBP £17,500

Contact: Richard Lundbech [Send Enquiry]

Telephone: 07968009103

Location: Portsmouth Hampshire UK


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26' for £2000

Yes there are boats for this sort of money. the new owner of my old Macwester 26 is being sold for this sort of price by yet another person who has now decided he gets seasick. I have seen many other sad cases down here on the south coast.

Keep your eyes open the best bargains will be durring the winter.

Good luck
 
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

Agree - the back edge of my yard has loads of old boats whose owners have stopped paying the bills and/or disappeared. They all have notices on warning the owners (should they ever show up) that the boat is going to be repossessed by the yard at such-and-such a date - all the dates are in the past. So they're now for sale by the yard for whatever they can get for them - mostly I think they want the space back rather than to recover the (sometimes extensive) fees.

They're all tatty, some are wrecks, and I wouldn't go near the timber or ply ones, but some of the GRP ones might give someone a sound hull and mast to start from.

The real problem here would be a place to keep it, not the cost of the boat.

Pete
 
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