Over 50'/Under $50,000

Fancy a bit of DIY? From the looks of this 55' Bruce Roberts-in-progress, nothing more than the efforts of a rank amateur are required to finish her off in the spirit of the original project.

This "solid glass with foam core" beauty (which is it? solid glass or foam core?) sports an interior that could have been metaphor in a Conrad novel. Clearly, it started out (two decades ago?) as an attempt to make a professional job of it. Then the mad desire to just finish that became a slapdash race to the bottom of the scrap wood pile.

The horror.

Over 50'/Under $50,000

Continuing our (tongue-in-cheek) series of the market for used, big and cheap ...

Nothing telegraphs "Danger, Will Robertson!" quite like the words "owner built" and "ferro cement". If any part of the hull or deck is covered in blue plastic tarp, well then, that's just icing on the topsides.

http://www.sailboatlistings.com/view/7986

Among other things, this 56' behemoth would sleep the forenoon watch on the USS Nimitz. She's ostensibly a ketch, though the sails are "plus", whatever that means. The head apparently comes with its own holding tank (how 1960s!).

Ad says the hull has no leaks. At first glance, we felt the not sinking thing was a definite selling point. In fact, everything sounded swell until we got to the part of the blurb that advised "in need of repairs and TLC."

Awl, shucks. A project boat.

Our guess is this beauty is way beyond TLC.