BOAT AUCTION 2023: Where to buy a SUPER CHEAP sailboat!

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BOAT AUCTION 2023: Where to buy a SUPER CHEAP sailboat!


Here at Shoreline Marina in Long Beach, CA we have a boat auction twice per year. In this video I bring you along with me to watch bidders buy boats for super cheap. Some of them didn’t even get a bid and weren’t sold at all. The opening bid for a sailboat is $400 and they still didn’t sell.

These sailboats are run down and dirty. Most of…

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  1. A lot of people think it's sad to see these boats get scrapped, buy there's much more positive side to the story. The only way to find some of the parts to maintain and restore old sailboats, is from other salvaged boats. Hopefully the salvaged parts end up on eBay, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, or some local used part market (I love Minnie's Yacht Surplus in Newport Beach, CA). When your viewers finally do get the fixer-upper sailboat they've been dreaming about (and I hope they do), they'll be grateful that some boats get scrapped by guys like "Capt. America". For anybody maintaining a large boat on a modest budget, guys like him are actual heroes.

    I'm posting this after skimming over 750+ comments, looking for information that would help me get the windshield from that Columbia 45 (I'm not asking you for more info because I know you don't have it). I bought one two years ago that was seaworthy and insurable, but still needed a lot of work. If the Columbia 45 in your video ended up in a scrapyard within 100 miles of Los Angeles, I would be there asap, loading up on spare parts (and getting the windshield I've been looking for).

  2. That was fun for sure! I would have bid on that last Catalina 30. I'd first haul it out and check for that Catalina smile, these boats are notorious for keel separating from hull. The rest of it is normal clean and maintenance. These boats are roomy and fun to sail.

  3. is there any point in restoring these boats? i mean the wood under that gelcoat could be rotten right?
    What do you guys think is it better to buy one of these poor boat and fix her up as i save from paycheck to paycheck or buy a sailaway boat spending all that big buck all at once?

  4. Interesting video. Thanks. The truth is that it costs thousands to scrap one of these. So if they can give em away they are way ahead. A friend bought a Morgan OI 33 for a dollar. She now has over 20K into it and still not up to a nice one that you could have bought ready to cruise for similar money. I wouldn’t touch any of those boats. Not worth it. If you are young and very handy with a decent budget to referb. AND LOTS of ambition. Ok. Have fun.

  5. These look like confiscated anchorout. My town of Sausalito is taking away boats because they claim the anchors are hurting the Eel grass, but the mega yachts behemoth anchors are fine? They are also unfairly using the three day moorage to tow away boats. They lied about the number of anchorouts over the years. (Most people couldn't live as an Anchorout. They just don't have the skills, or the health to live on the water. I'm tired of MIMBY's making everything illegial. There are literally no cheap ways to live anymore. It's unAmerican?)

  6. The problem is not really the deals. The problem is that boat you buy for $300 has to leave the marina immediately. Which is why they don't sell. No other marina will accept them. Dirty and unregistered. You have to remove the boat from the water and fix it. Then wait maybe years for a slip to open up. Then pay $700 a month to store your $300 boat. In the end, the marinas usually pay a lot of money to have these boats removed and destroyed.

  7. I got my Catalina 36 for $750 at a boat auction. Granted it smells bad and needs a new engine but it has a solid hull and can be brought back with a little work. I have the skills, I will find the time and money and soon I will be sailing on the Puget Sound and Salish Sea.

  8. Dear Andy & Misty, I would be interested in the auction and have some questions about it. (By the way, I signed up for the notification list, but there was no auction in September. I hope to be notified of the next one.)
    1. Can a foreign (EU.) citizen participate in the auction?
    2. Do the ships sold come with any kind of ship documents and ship certificates?
    3. Can the purchased boats be transported only by land, or by water (towed or sailing)?
    4. You mentioned a grace period of a few days for delivery. It is possible to improve the condition of the ship in the port during this time; work on it?
    If you know, please answer my questions. Thanks.

  9. repurposing/renewing a used boat is one way of keeping derelict boats out of our oceans and landfills. Another action that qualifies for our #onemillionboater pledge to change one thing to help protect oceans from pollution. Kudos for promoting these boat auctions!