Gofirstclass
Well-Known Member
TexasPilot, you did the right things to protect yourself, starting with googling the HIN, coming on here and explaining what you'd found, hiring the surveyor, etc.
What you learned is a valuable lesson on some things to do when looking for a boat. IMO you were smart to walk away from that boat. It's not your problem, that problem belongs to someone else and there was no sense in injecting yourself into it beyond what you did.
Now get your hiney back on YachtWorld, expand your search criteria to include a search of a much wider area and start over. Don't overlook searching in states that are many miles from your home area. The economy in the Great Lakes states is still not recovered and that could mean a good deal for you on a boat that is a freshwater boat, has a limited boating season, and they generally are pulled shortly after Labor Day and tucked safely away for the winter. Yes, it will cost you some $$$ to get it home, but when I bought mine out of the Detroit area, I figured that I saved somewhere between $50K-$75K even after paying the shipper.
What you learned is a valuable lesson on some things to do when looking for a boat. IMO you were smart to walk away from that boat. It's not your problem, that problem belongs to someone else and there was no sense in injecting yourself into it beyond what you did.
Now get your hiney back on YachtWorld, expand your search criteria to include a search of a much wider area and start over. Don't overlook searching in states that are many miles from your home area. The economy in the Great Lakes states is still not recovered and that could mean a good deal for you on a boat that is a freshwater boat, has a limited boating season, and they generally are pulled shortly after Labor Day and tucked safely away for the winter. Yes, it will cost you some $$$ to get it home, but when I bought mine out of the Detroit area, I figured that I saved somewhere between $50K-$75K even after paying the shipper.