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I hate boat buyers... (long)
I'm in the process of selling the Halman and I had a guy who was
really interested in it. I spent four hours on the phone with him, I took a ton of pictures and he made an unseen offer contingent on viewing the boat. I explained to him exactly what the boat was and what was wrong. He asked if he could being a surveyor along - fine, no problem there. I sent him a copy of the survey I had done this spring. The surveyor basically said the same thing I did - the Halman needs some minor cosmetic work (like the wood needs to be stripped and revarnished - the hull could use a good compounding with Finesse It II, etc.) but the basic boat is structurally sound, no leaks, no blisters, the stainless is in amazing shape as are the sails and rigging. The cabin doesn't leak anywhere, window seals are excellent - everything you would want in a gunk holer type sailboat. The trailer needs a good sandblast and paint job, but is servicable as a road trailer. He came to see it this afternoon and brought a "surveyor" friend, looked it over. I was a little suspicious as he kept calling it a Nordic 20 - technically, I guess that is correct, but it's a Halman Nordic 20 and in a lot of ways, a completely different boat. He kept asking some really stupid questions like where the keel bolts were (huh?) and the water tank (I understand that the Halman specs call for one, but this doesn't have that option). He nitpicked the color - apparently it's not a standard offered color (which may or may not be true - I've seen pictures of a Halman in the same shade of brown in Florida) insisting that the boat had been painted and that wasn't the original color. He wanted to see where the blisters were - all these boats according to him had blister problems. Made a big deal about the bottom paint (which needs doing - I admitted that up front) and the fact that there wasn't a barrier coat. According to the "surveyor", water can creep into the keel and deform the lead over the winter (the Halman doesn't have lead in it's keel - it's encapsulated steel). After an hour of this bull****, I was getting a little annoyed, but kept cool. Finally, they left and the potential buyer said he'd get back to me tonight. I just got off the phone with him - he offered me $600 for the Halman based on his "surveyor's" report. I hung up on him. |
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