[BarryL]

Hello,

A few points:

Most storage yards I am familiar with charge you a fixed price to haul, store, and launch. Once my boat is hauled, I don''t save anything by launching early (or by selling the boat and having the new owner move it). There are no additional winter storage expenses.

If I were selling my boat and you wanted to purchase it, but couldn''t do a sea trial, I would expect to place some funds into an escrow account until the sea trial could be performed. However, if two people wanted to buy my boat, and one insisted on waiting until the sea trial and the other one would pay me now, guess which offer I would accept? Not that I would expect that to happen, but you never know.

One last point, generally the buyer pays the cost associated with survey, this includes hauling and splashing the boat. If you buy a boat on the hard, and it passes the survey, you save a little money since you don''t have to pay for the haul and launch. That''s the way I bought my boat: it was on land when I saw and bought it. The owner''s contact covered launching the boat. I paid for the survey. The boat passed, I bought it and sailed it home. Once the boat was launched, if I decided not to buy it, I would have to paid to have it hauled and blocked.

Barry