AI6YR BenAnyone want a free boat? 🤪
I wonder how many thousands and thousands of dollars would be required to fix it... much be a lot!
https://ventura.craigslist.org/zip/d/oxnard-1976-tayana-pilothouse-trawler/7922565712.html
Shirley Eugest@ai6yr
Free tiny home. No plumbing. Might leak.
"need new pistons and sleeves/overhaul, topside wood rot on roof and sides needs to be restored, will need to be towed away"
AN/CRM-114@ai6yr “needs to be towed”
groff 🇺🇦@ai6yr For free I'd stick it in the garden and use it as an office or a boutique chicken coop.
Sarah E Bourne
Brian Davis@ai6yr looks pretty cool though.
@intrepidhero Check out the listing for the interior... interior is spotless!
Nature Punk@ai6yr @intrepidhero It's all about the transport and storage. If you've got both of those sorted it looks like a bargain for somebody who needs another hobby and potentially a small home at the end of it.
Jer 🚲@ai6yr @intrepidhero All those innards would probably look nice in someone's van conversion. ';^)
@intrepidhero And you'd have to airbrush Poseidon on the side of van.
Larry Anderson 🕊️@ai6yr There is nothing as expensive as a free boat.
Paul_IPv6
Rich Stein (he/him)@larand @ai6yr
Or as the saying goes, a boat is a hole in the water surrounded by wood or fiberglass into which you pour money.
I miss mine.
BTW, small airplanes are even more expensive — everything from light bulbs on up has to be FAA certified — but they are fun!
Friends' boats and airplanes do help lessen the cost. 😉
@RunRichRun @ai6yr I’ve been fortunate in having friends who owned boats, friends who owned planes, and friends who own old British sports cars. It has saved me untold tens of thousands over the years. 😂
dr_a@larand @RunRichRun @ai6yr I have a friend into vintage British motorcycles and small airplanes. His interests have saved me a ton. :)
@paul_ipv6 I have been told the best way to enjoy sailing, is to learn how to sail and then offer yourself up to help people sail their boats, since they are perpetually short of crew.
DonCC
GhostOnTheHalfShellLike people say in that hobby, a boat is a steel or wood or fiberglass lined hole into which you throw money
cognitively accessible math@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr Stan Rogers has two songs about it:
https://youtu.be/-Otq3gJObaA?si=rWqmJSfFDEIfCCG7 (about pouring the money in)
and the more famous one which a shipwrecked man says saved is life because he kept singing the chorus to stay awake waiting for rescue in the cold https://youtu.be/Fhop5VuLDIQ?si=wezIMk7chjPMkCQ8
Man with Blue Dolphin
C.W. Williams 🇺🇦 🌊🇨🇦🦑🇬@ai6yr
Ideal for anyone who already has a 1976 Tayana Pilothouse trawler for parts.
Ideal for anyone who already has a 1976 Tayana Pilothouse trawler for parts.
LOL.
i have a friend who likes tinkering with MGs. at one point, his wife described the collection as "the parts car and the one that doesn't run".
@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr
Now that's funny. I wa s considering writing "future grounds for Trial Seperation or Divorce" also.
Now that's funny. I wa s considering writing "future grounds for Trial Seperation or Divorce" also.
Internet Rando
Cass M 🇨🇦 
@paul_ipv6 sounds like my childhood
@ai6yr
my POV is this is a free dwelling (ADU) that needs work...
would a floating dwelling be worth the money it costs???
my POV is this is a free dwelling (ADU) that needs work...
would a floating dwelling be worth the money it costs???
Joseph Elfelt@DonChacale @ai6yr Ok, I give up. Why does it have to be floating in order to live in?
Bill Ricker@DonChacale @ai6yr
I've heard living aboard can beat rent in the short term in land-scarce coastal towns but marina fees are not unlike HOA fees.
I've heard living aboard can beat rent in the short term in land-scarce coastal towns but marina fees are not unlike HOA fees.
@n1vux @DonChacale @ai6yr I've got a live-aboard friend who worked out that their moorage and maintenance are on a par with rent, but for colder, damper, more crowded living space.
@dr_a @DonChacale @ai6yr
And around here (New England), normal boat insurance doesn't cover boats left in water during winter. IDK if live aboards get a rider for 'don't leave sheltered marina slip' for winter or assume liability for what a nor'easter can do. Those recreational boats that aren't sailed to a sunnier latitude, by owner or hired crew, are either tricked south or pulled out, propped up, and shrink wrapped.
And around here (New England), normal boat insurance doesn't cover boats left in water during winter. IDK if live aboards get a rider for 'don't leave sheltered marina slip' for winter or assume liability for what a nor'easter can do. Those recreational boats that aren't sailed to a sunnier latitude, by owner or hired crew, are either tricked south or pulled out, propped up, and shrink wrapped.
@dr_a @DonChacale @ai6yr
Wind can topple a shrink-wrapped recreational boat on a stand in the marina yard, but at least it's insured. But that doesn't work for living.
Wind can topple a shrink-wrapped recreational boat on a stand in the marina yard, but at least it's insured. But that doesn't work for living.
Michael Busch@dr_a @n1vux @DonChacale @ai6yr
I have known people who saved money by living on board a boat.
But that was comparing marina fees to the cost of an apartment in Berkeley.
@michael_w_busch @dr_a @DonChacale @ai6yr
Yep. Over priced port cities with inadequate dry acreage in commuting distance is prime place for this life hack, whether SF Bay or Boston Harbor.
Yep. Over priced port cities with inadequate dry acreage in commuting distance is prime place for this life hack, whether SF Bay or Boston Harbor.
@n1vux @michael_w_busch @DonChacale @ai6yr There seem to be a lot of live-aboard folks in Seattle since we're a pretty good spot for that life.
NilaJonesThere's also the question of what the fines will be if the city finds out somebody is living in it
well... i was thinking of docking it ,paying slip fees et cet...
such as...
https://treasureislandyachtharbor.com/slip-pricing/
Jim Hubbell@ai6yr
Hmmm. Does it come with a trailer?
Hmmm. Does it come with a trailer?
FreddyB Aviation Photography@ai6yr BOAT = Bust Out Another Thousand or 10's of thousands in this case
Stacey CampbellBreak
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