"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

A sea trial, hauling, survey and re-launch is scheduled for Wednesday on
the Navigator "weather permitting".


I wouldn't risk it. If something bad happens in winter on the water in
your neck of the woods, you're dead.

Can you structure a contingency sale, with the buyer's only option for
backing out some horror turning up in the survey? In sales, if you don't
strike while the iron is hot, you are likely to lose the sale because the
buyer finds something else he likes or loses interest altogether.

The problem is, with the economy tanking, and it is, if you lose this
buyer, you may not find another for a long, long time.

Well, that's another issue. I am probably not motivated enough to sell
it anyway and certainly not enough to take unnecessary risks (if there are
any) just to accomplish the sale.

They've asked me to run the boat which is fine, but if I do, it has to be
by my rules.
When I sold the Egg Harbor the buyer was a little miffed because I would
not allow him to dock it at the slip when we returned from the sea trial
after seeing how he handled it while underway and away from other boats.
Maybe I think too much about this stuff, but the last thing I want to do
is to take the boat out in the middle of winter, exercising my level of
caution, while having the brokers and buyer wanting to do more.

I am thinking I'll cancel it. If he's interested in the spring, fine.
If not, so be it.

But, I'll mulch on this a bit more.

Eisboch

I'd certainly play it safe if you're not desperate to sell. If he thinks
about it the buyer should agree.
The downside of losing the interest that the purchase money could earn would
be easily offset by any damage to your boat.