On Sep 11, 5:56 am, "Bill Kearney" wkearney-99@hot-mail-com wrote:
(I'm willing to drive to Portland, but not San Diego)

Flights are cheap. Fly down, stay in a cheap hotel and look at it in
person. No doubt any travel costs will be an order of magnitude less than
"surprises" that need to get fixed later on.

Yabut... Assuming the "Ordinary Person doesn't know much about boat
structure, so use a Qualified Surveyor before buying!" mentality, what
good would a personal inspection by me do? I will have a Professional
inspect the boat, and supposedly HE will find all the problems I would
have missed anyway.

Regardless, my Plan is to submit an offer contingent as usual on sea-
trial and survey. If accepted, THEN I fly down and do the sea trial
(which of course would include a "personal inspection"). If THAT is
OK, I arrange for a survey, and if THAT is OK, I buy the boat. Only
one flight down required, and that's after I've been assured that if I
like the boat, it's mine.

Only problem I see in this is that 2 of the 3 boats I looked at last
weekend had BAD holding-tank odour throughout the boat - that's
something that isn't obvious in pictures!

druid
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