On 2/18/2022 9:10 PM, film...@gmail.com wrote:

On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 1:46:51 PM UTC-8, Technobarbarian wrote:

On 2/18/2022 11:59 AM, George.Anthony wrote:

On 2/18/2022 11:48 AM, bfh wrote:

Technobarbarian wrote:

I'd bet that you could own it for a lot less than $30K. I had a >>>>> short flirtation with boat fever. One of the things I've discovered
is that there are a lot of "project" boats out there.

Just about all boats are holes in the water into which you throw money. >>>

The two happiest days of a man's life...

I saw a nice old cabin cruiser you could pick up for the cost of the >>>>> tires the owner had to put under it to get it out of there.

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/02/18/portland-sternwheeler-jean-commericial-ships-for-sale-columbia-river-captain-chris-jones/


"For sale: $30,000 Portland sternwheeler. Asset or albatross?"

TB

Back when I was growing up in Newport my brother and I had a boat
that we scraped and sanded and painted for salt water. We did a lot of
fishing in the bay. From there to the Navy to scuba diving in Mexico I
have a lot of experience with boats and understand the math. That wasn't
my biggest problem. My biggest problem is that even if I lived on the
coast I wouldn't use a boat all that much. As it is, at most, I might
want to use a boat maybe 10 times a year. It's cheaper and easier to
scratch my itch by renting a boat every now and then. And that's what I
plan to do.

When I was diving in Mexico I was sometimes offered "project"
boats for free. I figured that by the time I got done the boat might be
worth about what I had paid for everything I needed to put it back into
reasonable condition.

The one small flaw in my plan it that at the one bay I'd most like
to use a boat there are no rentals available. I'm looking at various
ways around this problem. I've seen guys setting crab traps from kayaks.
I won't be doing that.

TB

In my limited experience, it's far better to have friends with various boats, instead of owning one of your own... Smaller outboard skiffs are the exception....

Davy Jones Jr.

I'm sure you're right. My BIL has a nice boat and I could go out
with him anytime I felt like it, but he mostly trolls the river or goes
out on the ocean. I've done plenty of that style of fishing in the past
and I'm not really interested in doing more. He gives us all the salmon
we can eat already cleaned and packaged anyway. I was looking at
something around a 14' aluminum boat for crabbing in the bays. There are
a lot of these things floating around and you can pick them up pretty
cheaply. After looking at a lot of boats on Craig's list and looking at
the numbers I figure it's cheaper and easier for me to rent a boat
that's already sitting there in the water. At the end of the day I can
just leave it there and drive away.

I'm still puzzling over Netarts bay and considering all sorts of
crazy ideas. Hey, my ideas aren't any crazier than the guys a I saw
there fishing from a Jet-ski with spear-guns. Netarts is an attractive
little bay because there are no big rivers flowing into it. So heavy
rain doesn't affect crabbing as much as it does other places. There are
a number of options for crabbing there, but there are no docks you can
drop your traps from and no rental boats. People with boats do nicely
there. The shore crabbers work for their crabs. I'm too lazy for that.
The most effective method would be to get scuba gear and go out and
collect the crabs by hand. That gear is more expensive to buy or rent
than a boat. Crab raking works well there, but that requires wading
around in the bay during a low tide after it gets dark. The big crabs
stay in deeper water during the day. I don't think I'm quite crazy
enough for that one. I'm considering ways I could lift my traps straight
up using an inner-tube and a small air compressor.

TB

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