CARRI-CRAFT 57 Carri-Craft 57 FLOATING CONDO

HUGE PROJECT HOUSEBOAT FOR SALE AT AUCTION WITH NO RESERVE. PLEASE HAVE YOUR FUNDS LINED UP PRIOR TO PLACING YOUR BID AND IF YOU WISH TO SCHEDULE A PERSONAL INSPECTION OF THE VESSEL PRIOR TO BUYING IT, PLEASE CALL ME TO ARRANGE THAT. You will need a kayak or dingy or other small motor boat or row boat to get out to where the boat is anchored. YOUR BID IS A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT TO PURCHASE THIS VESSEL AS IS, WHERE IS AND TO PAY WITHIN 24 HOURS ACCORDING TO THE PAYMENT TERMS. PLEASE CONSIDER CAREFULLY BEFORE PLACING A BID AND DISCUSS YOUR PLANS WITH YOUR SPOUSE OR BOAT PARTNER ETC. BEFORE COMMITTING TO MAKE THE PURCHASE.

This huge project houseboat was generously donated to our charity to raise money for our coral restoration efforts and our work preventing single use plastics from contaminating the oceans. Unlike other marine donation charities there are no hidden fees or extra documentation fees associated with this auction. What you bid is what you will pay.

Vessel photos were taken when we beached it on a sand bar at high tide and let the tide go out in order to scrape off barnacles. Vessel is now floating at its proper waterline, but these photos give you a good sense of the hull design below the water, especially the photo looking straight at the front of the boat, so I decided to use them for the listing even though the boat looks slightly better than this in real life without all the brown stripe below the water-line. Structurally the vessel has a very strong hull and pretty solid decks on top and no sign at all of any structural damage below the waterline.

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This Carri-Craft houseboat is a huge vessel both in terms of being a HUGE PROJECT and also being a HUGE VESSEL quantity of floating real estate. This vessel is a very strong single piece cast hull with two pontoons (ammas) as part of the same hull. It has a huge wide interior residence floating upon this dual-sided hull. It would make a perfect floating condo on the water or office or art studio in the Washington D.C./Baltimore Maryland area. That is the good news. The bad news is that it needs a ton of restoration work. In fact a more accurate description would be to call it in need of a complete new interior remodel. You can look at the 2 other Carri-Craft 57s for sale on YachtWorld for ideas on what this one could look like once the interior is gutted and a new interior put in. Key West 109K -California 125K. Payment due within 24hrs.

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Think of this boat as the floating equivalent to purchasing bare land to build a house upon. It has square footage but that is about all it has. The motors have significant rust and have not been used at all in years. I believe they are detroit diesels but didn't inspect them close enough to see which models for certain. The interior carpet stinks of pet smell from the guy who lived on it before who had several small dogs on board and he wasnt the worlds greatest dog owner by any stretch. There is rotten plywood and some mold spots. The interior is generally just plain disgusting. You should expect to tear out the interior plywood flooring, the vinyl on the walls and also the ceiling headliner and put in a new plywood floor and paint or otherwise re-surface the interior walls and ceiling. Assume that none of the electronics or mechanicals work properly and if you find out otherwise then lucky for you, but I wouldnt expect anything to work from one glance at the condition of it.

You can look at the two other Carri-Craft 57s for sale on Yachtworld for ideas on what this one could look like once the interior is gutted and a new interior put in. The one in Key West I especially like the way they removed the loft and raised the ceiling into one large room with the pilot station forward which makes it really feel like a really spacious home. It is priced at $109,899. The other one in California has a nice enclosed canvas upper deck salon. It is for sale at $125,000. If you are handy you could easily do the remodel for around 20-30KK and save 60-70K or so over purchasing of of the fully restored sisterships. This project is basically the same as flipping a house that needs a deep re-model.

The boat is anchored in an inland bay just outside Annapolis, Maryland where it has access to the Chesapeake Bay and the Ocean beyond. There is no cost to keep the boat where it is anchored but it is not really a good place to keep it long term as it is a fairly tight harbor. I would recommend moving the vessel to a boatyard or other anchorage where there aren't so many other vessels nearby or bolt an outboard motor bracket and sailboat outboard motor on the back. Then you can move it to a boatyard with travel lift to have it hauled out and moved with a semi truck to wherever you want to keep it at to do the restoration. If you want to keep it anchored for any length of time you will need to register it in Maryland in your own name after paying for it and sign a purchase contract accepting responsibility for safe use, transport and/or mooring of the vessel.

Restoring this floating house will require some serious elbow grease and a lot of plywood and paint and other building materials. If you are comfortable with land-based house re-models this will be a familiar sort of project for you. It will be very similar to gutting a land house back to the walls and starting over with all new everything. But if you have never done a house re-model, consult with folks who have already done that to get an accurate idea of how much work you are getting yourself into on this one before placing your bid.

To move the boat locally during calm wind an outboard motor bracket could be bolted on the transom and put a 15 to 150 horsepower outboard motor on the back. To bring it to the anchorage we used only a small pontoon boat with an 8hp outboard motor believe it or not, and it moved it but pretty slowly and only in calm water. But I think a mounted 50hp or larger motor would move it fairly gracefully from one location to another during calm weather at 3 to 5 knots. If you want to go faster you would obviously need some larger outboard motors installed or to do the impossiblereplace or repair the inboards.

But if you just want a floating condo that you can move from place to place every once in a while but mostly keep in one spot I think a modest sized outboard motor would be just fine for carefully planned boat movements from one marina or anchorage to another

This boat has a terrific and strong upper exterior deck that could easily support a rooftop canopy and deck chairs for an upper deck sort of experience on top of your residence. The interior is similar in size to a single wide mobile home.

If you want to invest in the floating real estate of a true Fixer-Upper project vessel of this scale and you want to transform it into a floating oasis upon the water, this could be a fantastic opportunity to buy your dream real-estate that becomes the place you design and build your future home within. It ill be a ton of work, but for the right person with some handy skills and not afraid to invest some real effort, this could truly be transformed into an amazing floating home.

Includes roughly $800 worth of anchors,lines and chain and $1900 worth of solar panels ready to install.

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Payment due within 24 hours after close of auction via Venmo or Cashier's Check with managers receipt as proof of payment at any Wells Fargo Bank. Paypal deposit due immediately after close of the auction. If you are the high bidder at the close of the auction please call me right after auction closes to discuss the details of the transaction & tell me what name/ address you want on the Bill of Sale. Will phone CLEAR OWNERSHIP PAPERS.