Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We are selling our beloved 1987 Island Packet 31', CONTANGO, which sailed from New Orleans, USA, through the Panama Canal, across the South Pacific to Australia and Lombok, Indonesia. It is loaded with redundant gear and spares. The engine was in good working order the last time we were on it in June 2023. It was appraised for $51,000 USD in Cairns, Australia on June 2, 2022. We are asking $9,999 or best offer in an as is condition. Buyer will have to cover storage fees, inspection fees, moving expenses, and insurance. We are selling due to changes in family circumstances.
Contact Captain Linus Wilson, USCG OUPV at linuswilson@yahoo.com for serious purchase enquiries. CONTANGO, the slow boat, was the subject of two books SLOW BOAT TO CUBA, SLOW BOAT TO THE BAHAMAS, hundreds of YouTube vlogs on the Slow Boat Sailing channel, and scores of episodes of the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast.
Captain Linus Wilson is the author of the travel narratives SLOW BOAT TO THE BAHAMAS, HOW TO SAIL AROUND THE WORLD PART-TIME, and SLOW BOAT TO CUBA. He has also edited the annotated editions of SAILING TO TREASURE ISLAND by Captain J.C. Voss and SAILING THE OGRE by Mabel Stock. Captain Linus Wilson is the author of How to Sail Around the World Part-Time which is available in eBook and softcover on Amazon and in audiobook for all patrons of Slow Boat Sailing at patreon.com/slowboatsailing On the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast Linus Wilson has interviewed the crew of Sailing SV Delos, WhiteSpotPirates (Untie the Lines), Chase the Story Sailing, Gone with the Wynns, MJ Sailing, Sailing Doodles, SV Prism, Sailing Zatara, Adventures of an Old Seadog and many others. Get Linus Wilson’s bestselling sailing books: Slow Boat to the Bahamas at amazon.com/dp/B018OUI1Q2
on Audible at audible.com/pd/B07N7QFNJR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-141382&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_141382_rh_us
Slow Boat to Cuba amazon.com/dp/B01MFFX9AG
gumroad.com/l/cubabook and How to Sail Around the World-Part Time amazon.com/dp/B01B0OFYNW
gumroad.com/l/sailing
Copyright Linus Wilson, Oxriver Publishing, Vermilion Advisory Services, LLC, 2024.
We are selling our beloved 1987 Island Packet 31', CONTANGO, which sailed from New Orleans, USA, through the Panama Canal, across the South Pacific to Australia and Lombok, Indonesia. It is loaded with redundant gear and spares. The engine was in good working order the last time we were on it in June 2023. It was appraised for $51,000 USD in Cairns, Australia on June 2, 2022. We are asking $9,999 or best offer in an as is condition. Buyer will have to cover storage fees, inspection fees, moving expenses, and insurance. We are selling due to changes in family circumstances.
Contact Captain Linus Wilson, USCG OUPV at linuswilson@yahoo.com for serious purchase enquiries. CONTANGO, the slow boat, was the subject of two books SLOW BOAT TO CUBA, SLOW BOAT TO THE BAHAMAS, hundreds of YouTube vlogs on the Slow Boat Sailing channel, and scores of episodes of the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast.
Captain Linus Wilson is the author of the travel narratives SLOW BOAT TO THE BAHAMAS, HOW TO SAIL AROUND THE WORLD PART-TIME, and SLOW BOAT TO CUBA. He has also edited the annotated editions of SAILING TO TREASURE ISLAND by Captain J.C. Voss and SAILING THE OGRE by Mabel Stock. Captain Linus Wilson is the author of How to Sail Around the World Part-Time which is available in eBook and softcover on Amazon and in audiobook for all patrons of Slow Boat Sailing at patreon.com/slowboatsailing On the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast Linus Wilson has interviewed the crew of Sailing SV Delos, WhiteSpotPirates (Untie the Lines), Chase the Story Sailing, Gone with the Wynns, MJ Sailing, Sailing Doodles, SV Prism, Sailing Zatara, Adventures of an Old Seadog and many others. Get Linus Wilson’s bestselling sailing books: Slow Boat to the Bahamas at amazon.com/dp/B018OUI1Q2
on Audible at audible.com/pd/B07N7QFNJR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-141382&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_141382_rh_us
Slow Boat to Cuba amazon.com/dp/B01MFFX9AG
gumroad.com/l/cubabook and How to Sail Around the World-Part Time amazon.com/dp/B01B0OFYNW
gumroad.com/l/sailing
Copyright Linus Wilson, Oxriver Publishing, Vermilion Advisory Services, LLC, 2024.
