I recommend you to use Internet to find a sailboat of your dream. In Internet you will find a lot of offers of sailboats for sale. Webpages will provide you with an extensive listing of sailboats or sale: cruising yachts, daysailers, raceboats, beach catamarans, and custom yachts. Internet search for sailboats for sale is very convenient. Sitting in your armchair you will see photos of used sailboats, review specs-at-a-glance as well as a detailed description and contact information. Web pages do their best to draw more clients.
But to use Internet to search for sailboats for sale you should know what you want to find. Most of web pages that deal with sailboats for sale will offer you to fill a search form. Such form may contain the following fields: manufacturer or builder, model, length (from (feet) to (feet)), year (from...to), price (less than...), boat type (e.g cruiser, racer), and hull (e.g. monohull or multihull), and material (e.g. fiberglass). Most of the fields are optional. The less information you require the more results you will get. Most of the results of found sailboats for sale will be accompanied by pictures. If you want to sell something you should better show your goods to full advantage. You may enlarge the picture by clicking on it.
The result of your search may be presented in the form of table. Some tables may contain even the city and the state (for the USA). In such search systems you may just look for sailboats for sale in the city or town you are interested in. It will facilitate the process of getting the sailboat you have bought. I was looking for a boat in New York State and got more than twenty results. One boat was offered even for free. It was Beetle classic boat with length of 30, manufactured in 1951. This boat was offered in Fair Haven, New York.
Looking for a sailboat of some definite manufacturer you will get results where clicking on the manufacturer you may be transferred to the web site of this definite manufacturer. Depending on the web page you may get either very brief information or detailed information.
I looked for Hunter 1984 and got the following results:
Length: 31', Beam: o11, Draft: o5'
Year: 1984
Type: Cruiser
Hull: fiberglass, monohull
Engine: 1 diesel inboard
Location: Kemah, Texas
Asking: $19,200
Then I looked for 38' Morgan Charlie Morgan Loop using another web page. The results also contained the year of manufacture, the length, the beam, the draft, the material, the hull, the type, the location, and the price. Besides, it provided me with detailed description saying the following. 1999 - Hull painted, bottom scraped. 2001 - Perkins diesel overahuled, new hydraulic transmission, new cutlass bearing, new exhaust system fuel tank taken out, washed and remounted. New 153% Mylar-Kevlar headsail. 2002 - New Sailtec Backstay with new hydraulic Backstay adjuster, plus 2 upper shrouds; new water heater, new audio system. 2003 - New 120V circuit with all new wiring including battery charger; New emergency 9 Gal extra water tank; New 140 & DR Twaro Film Kevlar. 2004 - Dodger with new plastic windows and new zippers. Mainsail Dacron approx 8 years old, very good shape with Lazy Dutchman's System. Roller Furling 130% jib in very good shape, Spinnaker in good condition. In addition I got a specification of the equipment: Danforth and plow anchors; AutohelmST4000 Wheeldrive autopilot; CombiVI systems knot meter and depth finder; Standard GX2330S VHF/FM Marine Transceiver; Pioneer CD soundsystem with Bose speakers; Adler Coldmachine; Apelco DXL6600 Loran; Portable GPS; Barlow Winches; 120Volt shore power w/Zantrex battery charger; cockpit and cabin cushions.
I recommend you to use Internet to search for a sailboat of your dream. If you do not find the boat that meet all your requirements you will at least get the information that will broaden your knowledge about boats and help you to orient in the sea of offers.