How Far to search....
Since Carl is talking about spending about 55 or 60K, give or take...
perhaps truck transportation is not such a high percentage of this price to further invest.
If a search of brokers in the Great Lakes area is not productive, why not look further afield? We ended up buying our boat in the SF Bay area and having it trucked up to Portland, OR. This added $1900. in trucking costs.
I know that traveling to look for a boat costs $$, but we looked at our plane trip to the Bay area as a mini-vacation. The haulout and survey will be done in any case -- you just have the trucking and commisioning at your home port to add in.
We figured that it would all amortize out if we kept it a long time, and 10 years later we judge that it has, and then some.
We really like our Olson 34 -- my wife sez to add that it's not for sale...
Happy hunting,
Loren in Portland, OR
If you guys ever visit the NW, let's go for a sail!