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Originally Posted by Pamlicotraveler
Is it a true story?
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Yes, hundreds of times every year. When I was in the business I found a lot of good deals that way. The other way to buy a boat is talk to the owner just after the insurance company gets finished with him when they are totaling the boat. One of the best live-aboards I ever had was a boat that was hit by a drunken powerboater while she was on a mooring. The forward 10 feet of the boat was cut off clean. My glass man put her back together over the winter and you couldn’t tell anything had happened. When I sold her I pointed out the damage but the owner thought I was kidding. He came back to me a few years later all upset that the boat had been in an accident. Someone had shown him a picture they had taken with the bow laying on the ground near the boat while she was in the travel lift. I pointed out that not only did I tell him but it was in the sales contract that the bow had been replaced. He sold the boat some years later without telling anybody about it and the surveyor MISSED the repair.
All the best,
Robert Gainer