Agreed. The deal should be settled and the sea trial should be confirmation
of what has been said and negotiated.

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"Karl Denninger" wrote in message
nk.net...

In article FmxVc.56473$TI1.15297@attbi_s52,
Tony Thomas wrote:


Karl,
Noone has been saying the seller should pay for the survey. That is a
buyers cost if he chooses to have one.
And if a special haul is required for the survey (assuming the boat is
not
on a trailer and there is a cost) then that would be payed by the buyer
if
not negotiated.
However, for a test ride the seller should pay for the boat to be put in
the
water (and if the buyer wants to have a survey done during the test ride
then that should be fine).

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Tony
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Assuming we're talking about a trailer boat or similar, yes. There is no
significant cost involved here.

If its a larger boat and is up on blocks, that's a different matter. Give
me a contract subject to survey and sea trial, and we can talk about it.

I want to see the buyer's skin on the table (at least the cost of his
surveyor) before I'm going to call the travelift operator.

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