BOB TYSON
Active Member
Hey Captain Kitk LOTO, did you pull the trigger? Just curious.We are currently negotiating on the one for sale by Ozark Yacht Broker's. Just got a counter offer back minutes ago. There are some questionable things about the boat but it looks clean for all intents and purposes. However, I am also in the middle of turning a boat we bought last year that I didn't have surveyed that was VERY clean. Been buying boats and haven't ever been without ownership of at least a single boat (usually multiples) since 1979 and I've never been burned on a used boat. This boat was one that was as clean as I keep mine which is saying something (if you knew me you would understand that comment and it's been said to me in not too complimentary of a fashion by close friends who wanted to drink a rum runner on my boat but weren't allowed) and it turned out I had to sink $8K into a rotted transom and a ton of items that the owner was very slick about concealing as we found the signs of concealing post acquisition. Tough lesson on a little $23K deal on an open bow. SO, I'm being rationally cautious on this one with Ozark Yacht brokers. I am working with a revered surveyor and he performed a national survey (has access to databases the consumer doesn't like real estate brokers do on history i.e. days on market, asking versus sold, etc., etc) done on 450's sold in the past 18 months nationally and only 3 fresh water units sold. I'm not trying to screw the buyer down to sell at a salt water sold price (averaging salt water units sold would lower the price point in an unfair manner) but both the 450's on the Lake are well over priced by $20K. I believe in the "counsel of many" and I am being told to hold tight as the next 60 days the boat listings will really sprout and I am seeing exactly that happen daily now. Regardless, I am about to counter the counter and either it'll go to the next step or it wont.
By the way, will this be your first excursion into marine diesel power like it is for me?