Came Across a Couple of Interesting Boats...

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MilesandMiles

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http://neworleans.craigslist.org/boa/2608031997.html

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/boa/2608014266.html

This is the place that has them for sale

http://www.coastalcrewboats.com/

I emailed for more pictures and found out they have quite a few of these kinds of boats for sale. I think they're retired work boats of some sort. Does anyone know anything about them? Do they have high enough sides for rough days in the Puget sound? Do they have sleep'able cuddys? Am I going to be chastised for asking stupid questions? :)

Thanks
 
They look like transport vessels so probably no v-berth to sleep in. They look like they could fish in the Puget sound though.

Best of luck to you,
Karl.
 
Looks like boats that I have been in many times. They are cold in the winter, hot in the summer and generally only good in smooth water. Head height is for very short people or just sitting down. In general not very comfortable and only good for a day on the water. Never a night.
 
Very little freeboard, the comment about calm water is relevant. The main difference twixt the two, that I see, is the engine (one new with long warranty) and one 5 years old, probably out of warranty. Bet they were used in the GOM oil spill cleanup.

Charlie
 
I have a 16ft Alumaweld. I have had it out the Jupiter, FL inlet in 6ft chop and in the Gulf in 5ft chop. I had it out yesterday in 3ft waves with a good breeze kicking up the whitecaps. It gives a better ride in the chop we get in the Gulf than my Cape Cruiser, and it handles much better downwind in heavy seas.

Those are really good prices for those boats. I don't know about headroom or freeboard, but I would not discount these boats as smooth water boats only. If you are interested in those, I think it would behoove you to take them for a sea trial.
 
These are similar to boats used by both the Corp or Engineers and private companies as work boats. Some are air conditioned. Yes, they are also used as "crew" boats only in very sheltered waters.

I don't think that they would be good for the purposes in Puget Sound.
 
This looks like the boat in Shultze Gets the Blues, a movie about a German who plays the blues, which nobody appreciates in his hometown, whose greatest ambition is to come to the US to play the blues. He goes to Texas (either San Marcos or New Braunfels, I can't remember) and "borrows" a boat to sail to New Orleans. There's a huge gob of artistic license about the feasibility and length of that boat trip, but a touching movie nonetheless.
Bartman
 
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