[Perithead]

Well, my survey is in the morning for a Watkins 29 I am excited about it but I just got off of the phone making the last arrangments, the haul out. It is going to be $350 dollars for the haul out and then $465 for the survey. It comes to a total of $850. This is more expensive than I thought it would be.

I first talked to the surveyor last Thursday or so and his price of $465 was pretty high to me. He did however mention that if something comes up and I do not want to buy the boat then he will cut his price in half ($233) because he would not have do any paper ork which he described as half the work. I am thankful for this.

Then just a few minutes ago I spoke with two different boat yards and one was $375 and another was $350 for my particular boat. That seems high to me. Aren't they just going to lift it up for say 10-30 min tops? Geezluise that seems to be expensive.

I know that I should be doing all this but what is there I couldnt really find myself by reading up on doing my own survey of the boat that the surveyor might find that would cost me more than $850. I dont really think the engine counts because he stated that he doesnt do an engine survey but he will check various things out with the engine.

The haulout doesnt have a refund if I choose not to buy the boat..............to bad.

I just hope that there is nothing wrong with the boat because what if I did this to say 3 boats? That would be a total of $1524(quick calculation) down the drain! My, my wouldnt that be horrible...