As much as we would have liked a J30, we found after spending far too much time looking at boats last year that the PNW J30's for sale were typically project boats, or priced very high ($45k plus).
Interior and east coast J30's often seemed in better shape at substantially lower cost. But the cost of getting those boats to the west coast could easily increase the cost of the boat by 50% which just didn't seem worth it.
In the end we found far more value in a local Olson 911 and have been very happy with her so far. No doubt we will be racing with the Vancouver Island/Vancouver J30's soon. I believe there is another Olson 911 for sale in Seattle, but this may not be the forum to bring that up in.
