"Hoges in WA" wrote in message
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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.
--
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
That's definitely a different situation than I'd be in. If I were doing what
you are I'd use a broker too.
Of the 5-6 I've dealt with, probably none were crooks, just in South Florida
when a broker sees a guy drive up in an older vehicle (clean and well
maintained but 5-10 years old), wearing flipflops and non-designer
sunglasses rather than West Marine boutique crap, they write the guy off as
either a looky loo or someone looking for a cheap boat. Car dealers do the
same.
When they turn up thier dainty little sunscreened noses I keep moving.
Even though there is a listing database now like with real estate, it's been
my experience that brokers push their own listings first (like in real
estate, they get the entire commission) and their listings may or may not
look anything like what you're after so push for what you want and not what
they want to sell..