Amount realized. Skipper sold a sailboat with a basis of $50,000 to his first mate, Gilligan. Gilligan paid Skipper $38,000 cash and also assumed a $23,000 bank loan that Skipper had incurred to purchase the boat and which was secured by the boat as collateral. What is Skipper’s “amount realized” in this transaction?

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