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On 4/9/2010 2:56 AM, Hoges in WA wrote:
Hi
Anyone care to recommend a website listing most boats for sale.

I've got Yachtworld and YBW (same thing??) going but are there any
others?

I look at some individual brokers' sites occasionally but it seems
that
whatever they have rolls up into Yachtworld anyway.

Are there any that allow you to key in -bavaria -beneteau -hunter etc
so you
can eliminate a lot of what you don't want to see?

Not critical, just curious

thanks

Hoges in WA



www.sailingtexas.com

Covers most of the US, and the near islands.

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Richard Lamb
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/

Sailingtexas is about the most popular I've seen. The free sites like
this have driven boattrader almost out of business here in FL. There
used to be 4-5 seperate books for the state but now we're down to 1 and
it's pretty thin.
I avoid brokers like the plague so I just use Yachtworld for the pretty
pictures.

Why so anti-broker? I thought they were supposed to act ethically etc
etc.
hoges in WA


I won't cast aspersions on their characters but I will say that I'd rather
skip paying a brokers commision and I can find a surveyor wherever the
boat happens to be. I'd rather tour a boat with the owner than someone
else (like me) that knows nothing about it. With the cheapy TomTom in my
truck, finding a boat in an unfamiliar town isn't much of a challenge
anymore either.
As for the documentation, it was recommended to me by a friend to hire a
specialist" (whatever these people are called) to do mine for a mere $400.
I downloaded and printed the form and did it myself. Saved my $400 and
IIRC it took all of about 15 minutes to prepare. I sent the forms and
check to the CG and they sent back the documentation so I must not have
made too many mistakes!


I will be a non-US resident buying to stay in US waters for about a year
then exiting US waters.
I don't want to fall foul of any obscure tax traps, or inadvertently fail to
register some bit of what I want to achieve.
I know that thousands of people do/have done this so really it's not like
dealing in a former Soviet but I'd like to be compliant with local laws.
I'm sure going to need someone on the payroll!
Hoges in WA