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Old 06-13-2009
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Originally Posted by sailingmum View Post
If you think it's worth it,
spend the money on the survey. Never take one these puppies without a survey unless you've got the wallet and/or the stomach for the consequences.
Good luck.
This bears repeating. A survey just isn't all that expensive, comparatively speaking. There was a guy posted here last season or the season before, IIRC, who'd paid something like a couple thousand for a boat, no survey. It was only a couple thou, right? Ended-up costing him another $10k, or something like that, to fix her.

Who would put $10k into a boat for which they paid $2k? Somebody who had the boat and couldn't bear the thought of simply discarding a boat that could be made good? (See my previous post on the subject.)

Jim
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