Bargain Voyagers Ocean-Worthy, and Affordable
USED BOAT REVIEW CLASSIC CRUISERS FOR LESS THAN $75,000 The Endeavour 37 was based on a Lee Creekmore hull that was cut in half and extended. The handsome Luders 33 was the boat in which teenager Robin Lee Graham completed his historic cir- cumnavigation. Arthur Edmunds designed the full-keel Princess 36 aft-cockpit ketch and the larger Coyle Brian by Photo Mistress 39 center-cockpit ketch. None of these boats are fancily finished, but the fiberglass work is solid and well executed. They’re Bargain Voyagers ocean-worthy, and affordable. The Princess 36 was in production from roughly 1972 to 1982. We’d look for PS picks a few recession-proof a later model year; prices are under cruisers worthy of sweat equity. $50,000. BRISTOL 35.5C et’s say you’re looking to buy a board engine. Too small, however, to Bristol Yachts was founded by Clint L boat for summer cruising along satisfy our new criteria. So we need Pearson, after he left Pearson Yachts the coastal U.S. or on the Great Lakes, to jump up in size. As we culled in 1964. His early boats were Ford one that, when the time is right, is through the possibilities, we found and Chevy quality, good but plainly also capable of taking you safely and a fairly narrow range of boat lengths finished, like the Allieds. Over the efficiently to Baja or the Bahamas, and vintages that satisfy the criteria. years this changed, so that by the and perhaps even island-hopping Of course, there always are excep- late 1970s and early 1980s, his boats from Miami to the West Indies.
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