On Nov 24, 10:48*am, wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:14:51 GMT, "Janet O'Leary"



wrote:

Only have the survey done on the boat you want. The results of the
survey almost always come up with items that are negotiating points
for the final sale price. Pay the surveyor the $400. He may find
something that saves you substantially more than that on the sale
price. The survey may also discover problems that will make you glad
you spent $400 for the warning before walking away from a disaster.

Amen. See "High Time" sections in my gallery for how we walked away
from a VERY nice boat. The eventual buyer immediately spent
(according to the selling broker, with whom we remained friends
afterward, for many reasons) $10K on electrical fixes; the others he
didn't know about. See my analysis, extremely - nay, overly -
conservative on how much it would cost to remedy the many problems,
one of which, very significantly, was loose tabbing - something which
we had to remedy on our boat after the wreck. It was the opinion of
the surveyor (a prior Morgan QC and Quality Control manager in the
entire time of the production of our type of boat) that there had been
a collision damage repair in the bow area based on the un-fair shape.
Having done a wreck repair with a VERY significant section of damage,
I know that it's not a biggie - but the fact that it wasn't faired to
the shape, in retrospect, with our experience, would suggest that
whoever did it wasn't the craftsman that the one who relaid our
delaminations was.

High Time was the idea source for several improvements we put in our
boat, and in the end, perhaps, remedying the faults in that boat might
have been much less than what we put into ours to bring ours to where
it is today. So, it's all a crap shoot, and, unfortunately, if you
don't have the depth of experience we've gained in doing our work, you
can't possibly know. That's where a very thorough, critical (not to
bust a deal, just to have the evil eye), surveyor can make your
purchase - if not "safe" - at least fully informed...

And, FWIW, we paid him to come across Florida from St. Pete to Ft.
Lauderdale to do both (High Time and the one we bought) surveys, we
valued his direct experience so much. The fact that he was
universally recommended in St. Pete helped :{)) He, too, BTW, remains
a friend.

L8R

Skip

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