Todays Funny:

[CapnK]

Saw this title on YooToob - I'll not link it and give them traffic undeserved, but it says:

"Proof That AFFORDABLE 48' WORLD CRUISERS in Good Shape Exist!"

Riiiight... as long as you consider a $180K purchase price for a used vehicle to be considered 'affordable', maybe they do...

  :o ::) ;D ;D

[wolverine]

$180K?  How many are available?  At such a ridiculous low price I can buy several to keep at my favorite sailing waters and have my pilot jet me back and forth.

Oh wait, 48' is kinda small.  Never mind.

[CapnK]

Oh wait, 48' is kinda small.  Never mind.

Easy solution - buy two of them, make a catamaran.

Less than $500K is still "affordable", right?

[Godot]

It's all relative.

Around where I live, a single family home in a halfway decent (not super high end) neighborhood would be considered quite affordable for $500k. Just a few miles away in Baltimore City, in perhaps a less than stellar location, $500k, or even 400, 300, 200k, would be absurd.

That $180 thousand dollars is not just for a used vehicle. It is quite possibly for a new home. It is also for a level of freedom to travel the world. Now, we can get that a lot cheaper in our sailfar efficiency apartment style, umm, yachts(?); but we generally aren't talking 48' either. Now, I didn't see the video so I don't know the planned use case. A family of six on a world cruise may feel a little crowded in a thirty footer.

For what it's worth, I've been known to browse yacht world on occasion, looking with sincere interest at boats up to forty feet or so (about the biggest I'd feel comfortable handling alone...and my use case is that any boat I own must be something I can singlehand, in less than ideal conditions, without too much added technological help). For, I don't know, maybe 3-400 grand it is possible to get a premium world cruiser in excellent condition. For a high end boat, that can be considered affordable. While that would far exceed my discretionary cash, it's all relative.

heck, if a 100 foot shiny superyacht was sailed into port by Ted Turner or something, and he said to you, "darn it Cap'nK, this tiny boat is just too tiny for me to move about in! I'll give you the keys right now for $180,000 'cause I just don't want to deal with piddly things anymore" I would say that would be extremely affordable for that particular "used vehicle."

For about that same $180,000, you could get this as a used vehicle...