Buying a boat

SouthCoast

This may help:

http://www.rnli.org.uk/

mr.broderick

SouthCoast wrote: »

This may help:

http://www.rnli.org.uk/

Lol not much help from them on the costas :rotfl:

mr.broderick

SouthCoast wrote: »

This may help:

http://www.rnli.org.uk/

You a bit of a sailor southcoast?

SouthCoast

mr.broderick wrote: »

Lol not much help from them on the costas :rotfl:

Javea has one!

mr.broderick

SouthCoast wrote: »

Javea has one!

Surely an independent?
(and don't call me shirley)

mr.broderick

GDB2222 wrote: »

Well, there's quite a nice Wellcraft 260SE in Sarasota, Fl. It's only $18,000. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I don't want to miss out on this bargain, so I'm thinking of offering 10% over the asking price. Is it like repos, where they readvertise for a while with their highest offer? In that case, perhaps I should offer 20% over, just to play safe?

I really need some advice from you guys.

Can you put enough fuel in to drive it across the ocean, do you think? I wouldn't want to run out half-way across, as I can't see anywhere to rig a sail.

Now I have the contracts i will tell you that is the boat i have purchased, £7500 for the boat and the same to get it to spain and pay import duty etc, so £15k all in. Absolute bargain.

Gorgeous_George

How long have you anchored over a boat shippers?

GG

wharty

Shipping a boat? sounds funny sorry. Sail the thing to where you need it :rotfl:

rent_and_buy

mr.broderick wrote: »

Now I have the contracts i will tell you that is the boat i have purchased, £7500 for the boat and the same to get it to spain and pay import duty etc, so £15k all in. Absolute bargain.

thats a cracking deal, we have always had boats but not that big, we have had the rigid inflatable type, i looked at cruisers from america before, a lot of them go cheap, but what you must remember a lot of them have been through hurricanes and all sorts of bad weather

hope its a good deal,a and its in good condition, have you actually seen it in the flesh yet??

tomterm8

mr.broderick wrote: »

Marine qualifications? None, last time i skippered a boat it was a 12ft speedboat in tenerife.

Wow. I'm not sure how to put this, because it's going to sound unpolite. But are you mad? If you don't know the answers to these questions, there is no way you should even think about buying this boat until you have gone to your local marina, and done enough training to learn (a) how to drive the thing safely and (b) whether you actually like the reality as much as the "dream".

All power boats are much more dangerous than cars, and the sea around Britain and europe is both very busy and very dangerous. And, frankly, the salesmen and dealers can smell the inexperienced and will turn into sharks in a second. At least get someone with a lot of experience to look over the boat.