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Good on you for having the the dream its where most of us started, as well as being a yachtie I did a bit of cycling for a few years, and a mechanic once told me to think of a bike as a frame with a collection of parts. Those parts can be old, or new, expensive or cheap, flogged or unserviceable, obsolete or otherwise etc, you can easily spend 20K on a pushbike but cheap and cheerful or worth 20K both will get you to the dairy for a pint of milk and technically you are "Cycling" Yachts are a bit like that , you can get a floating 40 ft yacht for <30K and it will be technically complet

Sorry to sound pessimistic, but unfortunately I do not believe this is realistic. To have a vessel capable of RNZ or to the Pacific requires a boat in good order and well equipped. To go international you need to have a boat surveyed to Cat 1 standard, or you won't be given the paperwork to leave. The first time I did Cat 1 it cost me more than your budget to buy a boat, and my boat was already pretty tidy. Unless you buy a vessel registered offshore (Cat 1 not then required - but for a NZ resident GST would be immediately due), in which case you MAY find something, but it wont

There's been a lot of threads on the sire on this topic and they always come back to the compromise of cost/condition and unknowns. Search them and have a read. Also good to trawl you tube for ideas. There are lots of "I bought a cheap boat and went sailing" channels. They'll give you great insights. Lastly you've asked what you could get in tbe price range - answer is lots of things. You're best to make a list and go visit some listed in your area. You'll begin to get an idea of the range of size configuration condition of vessels in your price range. Don't be in a hurry. If you

D28 ,a few under 25k that look ok. Capable cruiser big volume for size. Not sure about offshore capabilities. Hmm h28 cheap as chips a few ventured offshore.

Something in your budget is going to have to give. Its either the dollar figure, the proposed size, or the proposed scope of use. It's the cheap/fast/good triangle on water.

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