5 Tips to INSTANTLY Help You Find a FREE YACHT! - DIY Sailing
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We've been getting a lot of feedback wanting us to elaborate on the process of us getting our Endeavour 32 for free, as well as requests for tips and advice. This video is here for YOU to elaborate on our experience getting a free sailboat and to give you some ideas on how you can get your own free yacht! If you have any questions or want anything elaborated on further feel free to leave a comment down below and we will try our best to respond to them all. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can order a Learning the Lines shirt (or two) here!: https://www.bonfire.com/learning-the-lines ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does anyone actually read this? Anyway... Here's the usual stuff below. Learning the Lines is a channel about us, an average couple in our 20's, with big dreams to be sailing the world by the time we're in our 30's. We're not afraid to jump into anything, put in the work, and learn as we go. For this reason our channel is very DIY focused, with the goal to show anyone watching that a lot is possible if you're not afraid to make some mistakes along the way. Please leave a like and comment if you've enjoyed the video, and subscribe if you haven't already.
Often, their ads on Craigslist will disclose their situation. Call them, talk intelligently about what you want and if possible, go look at the boat. If you are interested, evaluate what the sellers are looking for in a buyer. Are you that person? If you like the boat, tell them, but perhaps regretfully, you cannot afford it quite yet. Are they now living much further than you are from the boat? Tell them you will check on the boat for them every week if they seem interested in that. Be a friend! If you do this with several sellers, odds are that ONE of them ends up working a deal with you! You know what? The transaction may in fact lead to a friendship far beyond the sale of the boat.
10. comment for 5 Tips to INSTANTLY Help You Find a FREE YACHT! - DIY Sailing
With free boats I suppose location has a lot to do with it. Checking every day, multiple times a day, being ready to move in a hurry, and finally knowing boats and what is actually entailed in the work is paramount. If you can't do the work, or know how it is done you will not be able to evaluate that rare gem from the many anchors around the neck of boatowners. You guys did a great job.
We got lucky finding a great deal on a boat. It was no means free but the previous owner had done a lot of work and upgrades on it and was willing to let it go at a substantial discount compared to what other HR-35 Rasmus were going for at the time (real selling prices not just asking prices) and we simply had to convince them to sell to us by showing them we were the right new caretakers. It wasn't about the money, but being the right type of people (cruisers) that they wanted to sell to who would treasure their baby. Not changing the name was also important and implicit in the deal. But that is another story...
There is no substitute for digging in and doing. Repetition might be great for building muscle memory, but the ability to jump into any condition or situation and figuring out stuff is very important. Once you are able to teach something to someone, using plain language and in simple distilled-down concepts and they can learn it easily and turn around and again teach it to someone else successfully is the highest order of understanding.
In my book, the ability to teach to others (and not just teaching to a test) but teaching to competency without further assistance is the true test of knowledge. I'm a big believer in the Feynman Technique. Becoming a sailing instructor will push your sailing ability and prowess to a new level. Look at Mads from Sail Life. I'm not sure if he is consciously using the Feynman Technique or doing it naturally. But he is quickly becoming a master boatworker just by running his YouTube channel.
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I first saw this idea as a teenager in the 1980s. Big time golfer made a blind shot out of a sand trap from behind the green and dropped the ball right in the hole. Saved Par after a bad shot. A reporter asked him about his "lucky" shot and he replied with this very same comment. Honestly one of my biggest life changing mind altering moments. And I HATED golf at the time. I couldn't tell you why I watched that 15 seconds of video.
You make your own Luck. Awesome job!
20. comment for 5 Tips to INSTANTLY Help You Find a FREE YACHT! - DIY Sailing
Like I am always looking for a Wayfarer Sailboat, but when I first set it up, I got a lot.. A LOT... of responses for sunglasses... and made sure all the ads HAD sailboat in them the next time
Or the opposite is true the CL 16 is similar to a Wayfarer... or the same, but it is hard to make that one specific because 'CL' is only two letters and will find ads for many things that are spelled with a 'cl' though sometimes a quotation works a la "CL 16"
and then google will change their logrithim and all rules change
isn't that what this channel is all about?
way younger than you are now
The wisdom was, if you wanted a job (or learn something) go to a person who is in the field... those folks --- if respected as knowledgable will talk
and talk
If you are able to build a good relationship with a seller, it may come that they WANT to sell it, just to you, as it is their baby.
30. comment for 5 Tips to INSTANTLY Help You Find a FREE YACHT! - DIY Sailing
If nothing else it's a lot of fun to wander around old boat yard in the winter when the leave don't hide the boats!
Cheers Warren
Boats are constantly falling apart. At least one that is in the water has either had some basic maintenance or it would have sank already. Boats don't sink on the hard, but they are ready to. Decay doesn't stop on land...even fiberglass boats. Through-hulls are a good example, as are the hoses and seacocks connected to them. Dry rot can be worse than when in the water. They could be well past that 'warning sign' point where water was seeping in on a boat laying on the water long before they failed.
I am learning about Sailing crewing for Sailboat races! Our lake in Missouri has a lot of coves to help provide challenge.
I also use YouTube to learn about different blue water boats!