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The BoatFools Sailing Report delivers a comprehensive monthly dispatch on used sailboats, combining sales data, market trends, comparables, and analysis, along with a showcase of a standout sailboat for sale—think Kelley Blue Book, but for sailboats!
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Not Gonna Lie (opens the original)
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Not gonna lie.Sometimes looking at all the old, beautiful boats for sale can be a little depressing.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</d
The End of the Season: 10 Things We Learned (opens the original)
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Our first season of chartering our two Morgan sailboats has come to a close. We are exhausted, astonished, and mostly…relieved.The learning curve this season looked like the graph of a tech stock IPO—straight up.Those of you who have read previous newsletters know that our season started off on the wrong foot with our new-to-us Morgan 384. We thought we were all dialed in on account of the new Beta diesel with only 37 hours on it.We couldn’t have been more wrong.But with some long days and the h
I Was Only Going Down to the Boat for Ten Minutes (opens the original)
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I was only going down to the boat for ten minutes.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.My plan
Hits, Misses & Opportunities (opens the original)
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Several of the boats we’ve recently featured on BoatFools Sailing are still searching for their next owners despite offering genuine value and, in some cases, remarkable pedigrees.At the very same time, one of our consulting clients is just days from completing an Atlantic crossing in the very boat he flew halfway around the world to buy.It’s a fitting reminder that while some boats are still waiting for their next owners, others are already carrying dreams across oceans.When Certain Boats Don’t
Two Weeks Into the Unknown (opens the original)
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There are moments in boating that no amount of preparation can prepare you for.This was one of them.After months of sanding, varnishing, troubleshooting, replacing, upgrading, cleaning, commissioning, and more than a few late nights wondering what we’d gotten ourselves into, our “new-to-us” Morgan 384 finally slipped her lines.Not with Canadian Ken, Green Mountain Josh, and me aboard.Not for a weekend sail. But for two weeks with a family we’d only recently met.As she motored away from the dock,
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