Here's a good story about a bad boat. Hope that counts. While searching for our boat, we scheduled a viewing of a Sabre 34 in our area. The pics looked all right, but when we got to the boat, we knew something wasn't right. First, she wasn't sitting correctly in the water, she was down by the bow (never did figure out why). The dodger was on incorrectly (like someone removed it and didn't know how to put it back on.
When we got down below, we realized the "new" cushions in the cabin were made of that superhard substance that I would hesitate to call "foam". It was more like sitting on a slightly soft concrete slab.
The cabin sole showed evidence of major leaks and even rot underneath.
We lifted up the cushions to check out the water tanks and storage--we found that the area around the inspection ports on both water tanks were blackened with some sort of growth, and there were little white "larvae" of some sort--not maggots, but really disgusting anyway--crawling over the inspection port. ICK.
The head WREAKED. It was so bad that we couldn't physically take being down below. We had to immediate leave the boat.
I could go on and on about what we saw, but you get the idea. I think perhaps we were on board for about 3.5 minutes.
It was by far the worst boat we looked at, and was listed as "showing beautifully" and "perfect example", etc. The worst of it is that the asking price was the
highest (at the time) of the Sabre 34s we looked at. Just plain awful. By the way, this lovely vessel is still for sale.
