With 100k to spend on the boat.....

[egaito]

Yea, I wish I had to too!

The repower thread got me thinking.....if you did, and it had to go into the boat, what would you do with it?

Repower?
Repaint?
Add stabalizers?
Full galley and head makeovers?
A new dinghy, and remote controlled davit?
Hydraulic swim platform and a really annoying PWC to ride on it?
Night vision cameras? (have you seen the one that tracks radar contacts?)
Torpedo tubes? (a favorite of mine)

 

[Boatsb]

Pay it off and use it more.

 

[egaito]

Pay it off and use it more.

Almost mentioned it, but since you bring it up, but the money can't be used to pay off the boat. Consider it a gift from a rich uncle that had a good time on your vessel, perhaps at CDR weekend ;-), and decided to direct your inheritance to the boat (because you made him take his shoes off and display his toe fungus in public) with the condition it be used to improve the vessel in ways of your choosing.

 

[egaito]

OK, the teak helm on the flybridge of the '53 mentioned in the "Boat Surveyed" thread....that's on my list, along with custom fit canvas to protect it from UV.

 

[yachtsmanbill]

A 25 ton central air/heat system that relies on one unit. OR- A nice covered dock-a- minimum at the south pacific port of your choice.

 

[Boatsb]

How about gear? Can I get a set of rods and reels? Maybe new electronics and a few pieces of tackle? The rest would be enought to have someone else do all the work I don't like doing but I need to leave some work for me?

Priority one
Structural, electrical and safety

Priority two
mechanicals and plumbing

Priority three
Exterior cosmetics

Priority four
Interior finish and comforts

Priority five
Find my wife who I would not have seen for about a year at this point in the refit.

 

[yachtsmanbill]

Why #5?? Hire a lawyer and female owned contractors and pay them with unlimited free cruising--ya got 100K for fuel now---

 

[JKC]

This thread is just like one (well, maybe slightly different) several months ago: "What would you NOT do if given a do over". I'm curious about what you WOULD do: Paint, new generator, replace old bimini with new hardtop, replace old windows, swim platform, redo interior, freezer in cockpit, vacuum head, inverter, electronics, or something I haven't thought of.

I'm wondering because I think it will cost close to $100,000 to do these things and I need (or want) them done. I can afford most of them, but do I really want to spend the cash and have them done? (OR sell the boat and go buy a newer, nicer one!)

 

[SKYCHENEY]

A 25 ton central air/heat system that relies on one unit.

Had one of those on a 1984 Gulfstar MY. Worked great, but when it got low on freon you were SOL until you got it charged, no backup.

 

[MikeP]

Stabilizers and a watermake and the money left over might scare up a Vincent Black Shadow in poor condition!

 

[luckydave215]

Hire a guy who's really good at paint, varnish, woodwork, mechanicals, electrical, and detailing for 2 years straight.

Or repower with Cats or Cummins, and ditch the Onan's and replace them with Northern Lights.

I already have the toys and tackle.

 

[jim rosenthal]

1) Buy a vintage E-type, since I'm already spending that money on new engines for Blue Note. Or a Porsche. Or, spend a lot of time looking around and driving different cars to see what I want to get next...

2) I HAVE to spend it on the boat? OK: autopilot, Cummins QSBs instead of 370Ds, a second station for my Northstar 6000i, maybe some woodwork inside, reseal the front triple windshield, replate some hardware that didn't get done last time.....I'm running out of ideas. Maybe a dinghy and OB, but the 36C really can't fit much of one. OH- Veem wheels!!!! A sound shield for the NL genset.

3) Lots of diesel and cruising expenses....food, etc.

 

[(Nobody You Know)]

Come on guys, you all know what you would do if you really gave the thought process it's due diligence. I'd modify the in's and out's of the boat so that I had really good access to all systems be it mechanical, electrical or whatever.

My pet pieve is simple: I can fix anything in the world if I can get to it! (Hell I can fix anything on the d*** space shuttle...if I can get to the problem).

In short, my most serious insufficiencies prevents me from owning a craft that, in itself, disallows dimensions that would facilitate practical access to even the remotest function. To be even more succent, I cannot afford a 200' vessel that has a walk-in bilge, and all other systems displayed in a manner that would allow such thorough access that it would not sacrifice either muscle or spirit to endeviour it's improvement.

Bruises not withstanding,

Capt'n Bill

 

[Docrockit]

The decision would be to keep it or sell/upgrade. If keeping, replace windows with frameless and paint. Or sell and buy bigger and better...

 

[Buccaneer]

Ummm, with respect to the lawyer and the female contractors; well, the lawyer would probably end up with the boat - and the $100 Grand, and the contractors would never show up in the first place; so, maybe #5 is the cheapest thing after all... (I'm just saying... one shark to another, that is...)

 

[Genesis]

With Gig with $100k it would have been easy - paint and the interior, a set of VEEMS, and I'd probably go through the entire electronics stack (again; it was done by me when I bought her originally.) If I had money left I might be tempted to get rid of the in-floor baitwell, modify the transom to hold one, and place a dive compressor in the hole where the baitwell was (this is a fairly serious mod as the baitwell actually is structural to the cockpit floor.)

My "dream" for Gig was actually to rework the forward SR to be an island berth, relocate the head pump just forward of the head itself, re-plumb for an overboard macerator off the pump-out connection, redo the galley with solid surface and a modern cooktop + convection/micro oven, and refinish all the interior surfaces to OEM spec. That, and new paint. Bucks.

I couldn't have done power on Gig for $100. Best bid I had on a pair of QSMs with gears was around $120 complete; if I get to play in the $150-200 range then I'd redo the whole freaking boat and watch the guys in the Cabos drop their jaws as I go blasting by at 30kts on the NASTY days. Eat my soot!

It's actually a compelling case if you want a "new" boat but don't like the $1m+ tag on one. You can buy a boat like that for $200, put another $200 into it, and have a boat every bit the sea vessel that a new Cabo or Bert is, but for about a third the money, and IMHO in a lot of ways its a BETTER boat than the new ones. I've crawled around a lot of the new ones and while they have the flash and "wow" factor, there are always just enough DUMB things (like the $5 RV light switches!) that fail to impress. Hatteras didn't do stupid stuff like that......

 

[Jaxfishgyd]

After seeing the pics on how clean some of your engine rooms are, then again looking at mine, would be willing to spend the entire amount to have SOMEONE ELSE clean it.....
But guess I'm just gonna have to do it myself........

 

[trogers]

Update the electronics a bit. The basics are all there serve my needs, but I'd like to update my KVH antenna for internet access and dual LNB's.

With 'found' money I'd put a nightvision stabilized camera at the lower helm, digital control heads on the stabilizers for a bit faster response on Naids. Maybe an electronics suite that marries radar/chart plotter and bogey vector plots.

Find somewhere to stash a dive compressor on board my 56.

The Admiral would probably update the furniture on the aft deck.

The rest, if any, would go to cruising at "fuel prices be damned" speeds.

 

[ThirdHatt]

Actually, that's almost exactly what I need to spend to finish the boat! I'd do Stabilizers, Watermaker, Newer Dinghy, new radar, teak&holly flooring in Galley/V-berth/engine hallway and a complete paint job. Yes, I can get all that done for $100k! I should even have enough left over for that dive compressor that's at the bottom of the list.

 

[Paul45c]

Hmm...electronics would be high on the list. I guess full new networked suite, including the radar I don't have now (I honestly probably don't need it down here, but hey, I got $100k to spend!). Sat antennas for TV & internet. Remote cameras for the engine room. New flat screen tv. New sound system.

The rest of it would be like Carl's galley wishlist and some teak & holly decking in the galley. I'd love the teak & holly for the salon, but it's hard to figure exactly how to set that all up with the kind of big engine hatches the old beast has and make it look good. I'd have to ponder that one.

New bridge chairs...the Pompanettes are fine, but Murray Bros. smallest ones are darned nice. They're proud of them, though.