Welcome. I can offer Sailboat Ads for free, because I use the information you send me to build the Sailing Texas Photo Gallery. The Photo Gallery is not just a bunch of pictures, it is a searchable collection of over 5,000 boats that have been for sale since 2002, and more. You can use this to see what other people have been asking for boats like yours.

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On the Sailing Texas home page, on the right, is a running total of sailboats sold, new ads, and ads expired for the month. You can scroll down and see figures for last month, and the month before, and even past years. Why don't other sailboat classifieds do this?

Quote from a Sailing Texas Classifieds user:

David,
The Catalina 30 is sold!!!! Thank you for your website; it is fantastic! I have now both purchased a boat (small trailerable) from Pennsylvania, and sold my large cruising sailboat to a family in Wisconsin, while living in Ohio, all on your Sailing Texas Website!!!
Best regards,
Chet

Yes, the Sailing Texas Classifieds sells sailboats across Earth, NOT just in Texas! Your free classified ad includes editing, spelling correction, advice, and picture processing. A free webpage just for your boat is included, with video and sound if you wish! For free.

INSTRUCTIONS

FORBIDDEN:
Do NOT send me a link to a webpage with your ad info on it
Do NOT send ANY attachments except jpg picture files
Do NOT send me a Word doc

REQUIRED INFORMATION: I have learned over the years that a few items of information are essential to sell a boat.

REQUIRED ITEMS

Honesty

Year, make and length of boat

Location of boat

Asking price (price increases are not allowed)

Your name and phone number

Ads without required items will not be posted, PERIOD.

Other information and pictures are recommended, but not required.

Pictures:

Attach your pictures to your email in jpg format ONLY

Width at least 480 pixels, 640 or more is much preferable, so I can crop them if needed.

Things not to do

Do NOT send pictures in a slide show, via other services, webpages or in other documents! Attach or insert into email, all the other methods waste my time.

Do NOT send a link to another site where pictures are.

Do NOT put the pictures in a zip file. Do not put spaces or odd characters in your file names, many programs do not allow it.

Pictures are copyrighted, do NOT send pictures of some other boat or "sistership", never take pictures from another website.
Attach pics to email, period.

I will make your pictures fit the ad and reduce the file size so they will display fast. I may crop the picture and adjust the lighting and contrast.

Videos are easier than ever:

Send your video file with Filesend to my email address, davidluc@earthlink.net
File size limited to 120 Megabytes, but I can handle avi, mov, wmv and some other video files. I will edit and process your video for the web and put it in your ad. No charge.

Description: Include the specs for your boat if possible. Length, width, depth, weight, sail area, etc. While you know this for your boat, potential buyers often will have no idea. Be complete and brief.

Use plain text in the body of the email.

Do not use bullets, hyphens or * at the beginning of a line. I put bullets in where appropriate, just use single space lines.

Use only one column.

Descriptions and/or pictures attached in Word, PDF, other files or a link to a webpage means your ad will not be posted.

To place your free sailboat ad on Sailing Texas,
Email David at davidluc@earthlink.net

You will get a unique ad code for your ad. Change your ad at any time, no forms to fill out, just send me an email with the ad code for your ad. You deal with a human, not a computer. I will help you sell your boat!

Ads run for 90 days, to renew your ad at any time and return it to the top of the for sale list just drop your price about 5%. Ads are NOT removed, even if your ad expires you can still use it to show your boat to prospective buyers, and you can still return it to the top of the Sailboats for Sale list by reducing the price, but price increases are not allowed.

A note about virus's: I have had a computer destroyed by a virus, so I do NOT open attachments of any kind except .jpg. Period.

Sailing Texas is number one in customer service! Finding sailboats a new home is what I do. I'm not a sailboat dealer, I'm not a sailboat broker. I am a sailing instructor. When I turned 50 I decided to do what I loved to do the most, and teaching people how to sail came up #1, helping people sell and buy sailboats was 2nd. This website is to promote sailing, because I love sailing and I have fun doing the website, but it's a sideline to my career of sailing instructor. If you want to sell your sailboat, I want to help you get a fair price for it. If you want to buy a sailboat, I don't want you to pay too much. The Sailing Texas Classifieds are designed to do these two things, help the seller AND the buyer. Information on sailboats that were for sale is saved in the Sailboat Photo Gallery. Ads are dated from early 2003, so you know how long a boat has been for sale and when it's asking priced was last reduced. Over 5,000 sailboats that actually were for sale from 2002 to present, and they are all here for you to use in the Sailboat Photo Gallery. Buyers use it to see what people have been asking for a model, and Sellers use it help them decide what to ask for their sailboat.