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Originally Posted by Sunroof
Green Cove Springs??????
I used to live aboard my Coronado 35 sailboat at Green Cove Springs, Florida at the old Navy docks! The great secret about that location is the DO-IT-YOURSELF Yard and that is one of the best places to find a bargain on a boat. I was there back in the mid-1980's when the marina was fairly new. Today, areas around the docks have shoaled in and its tough for deep keeled boats to get and out for the lift. Back in my days, they has a cool little restaurant and the place was managed by a young couple. I was there last year checking the place out and along side the road leading to one of the many long concrete docks was a Space Shuttle long fuel pod the shuttle attached to. The one that lost its foam coating! Interesting place.
Bob
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Bob I started visiting GCS in the late 80's....then sailing in/out on the Morgan 30 in the 90s....buddy lived there on it for a few months...divorce
. Other bud was a crane op there....salvaged a 50'er (virtually free
) from the Charleston mess...sat in the H2O and on the hill for a decade....$$$ pit. FUN times sailing the St. J
No I would not pay to inspect a $5K boat...but I'd not be shocked at another 5 either....it's a BOAT
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I did watch an old 72' wooden 3 masted schooner being restored over 15 yrs up in Jax. too...it was trucked over to Jim's harbor....SD. Sailed into the Pacific a couple of times on it. A real head turner....like a porch
BOATs.....$500 for a gal of the good paint
Eyes wide open...
GCS....the Tugboat restaurant
? Yup....