GL: What's the Difference?

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

Don't limit your searches.  There are plenty
of twin gasoline engined cruisers that would
suit your purposes.  My previous boat was a
1986 Carver 28' Voyager with twin 305 cid
Crusader engines.  It had a generator and
air conditioning in addition to water heater,
stove, fridge, etc.  Current sell prices for
something in that range would probably be
around 25k or less.  I paid 39k in 1994 and
sold it for 33k in 2002.

Newer and larger would be proportionately
more expensive.  You can buy a heck of a
lot of boat for 50k!!

D C "Mac" Macdonald
m/v Another Adventure
1995 Carver 355 Aft Cabin
Grand Lake - OKlahoma



----Original Message Follows----
From: GHNutley@aol.com
To: great-loop@lists.samurai.com
Subject: GL: What's the Difference?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:49:50 EDT

As some of you may recall, I have contemplated long and hard about this for
several years.  Well, crunch time has arrived.  So, I thought I'd  query my
trusted friends and experts on this list.
Before the question first some facts.  I am a single cruiser.  I  live in 
New
Jersey (please save your comments on that for another time).  I  plan on 
most
of my cruising being the canals of New York and Canada and the  entire 
length
(to Tampa) of the ICW.  Because of divorce(s), a non-planned  early
retirement, two college education bills, etc., money is not all that  
plentiful.  I
figure I will have about $50,000 for a boat and set-up and  about 
$30,000/year
living expenses.  I queried Yachtworld.com for all power  and sail with 
single
engine diesels in a price range up to $45,000 and newer  than 1980 in the 
range
of 30' - 35'.  Hundreds of boats were returned based  on my query.  However,
the breakout was roughly 90% sailboats, 5%  commercial boats and 5% "trawler
types", needing TLC and cosmetic repairs.

So, here's the question (and, yes, I have asked this before), when doing
cruising such as I anticipate, what is the difference between a 
"trawler-type"
boat and a shallow (shoal, less than 4') draft sailboat with all the 
standing
rigging removed?

My first inclination is to say the sailboat makes perfect sense.  But,  what
do I know?  So, I pose this question to this illustrious group of  experts
.... what's the difference?

Greg
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