Also Sprach Dave Baker :
Has anyone out there purchased a boat in the U.S and then shipped it
to the U.K? I live in England and am currently looking into buying my
first boat, some sort of 17-18ft bowrider. After a bit of research I
discovered that the Maxum 1800MX, for example, is about 14000 pounds
here but only about 14000 dollars in the US - that's equivalent to
=A37-=A38K!!!! It's not fair! - Hence my question.

If anyone has done this before, I'd be interested to here of any
problems, unforseen expenses etc.

So long as it fits in a standard sized shipping container (8 feet wide by=20
, it shouldn't be to difficult. I'd imagine an 18 foot bowrider should
fit with no special effort as this guy:

http://continuouswave.com/whaler/cet...ceaPage75.html

shipped a 21 foot Boston Whaler to Austrailia in a container.

Sorry, no personal experiance with costs... but make sure you aren't
going to have to pay a whole bunch of tax when importing it!

Dan


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