5 Beers

jwreck · #1 (**permalink**) 03-31-2010

...and I still don't feel much better about blowing $1000 to survey a boat that I'm not gonna buy because it turned out to be rotting away...

Faster · #2 (**permalink**) 03-31-2010

.. but imagine if you bought it without surveying it and found out later... how many beers would that need????

jwreck · #3 (**permalink**) 03-31-2010

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Originally Posted by Faster

.. but imagine if you bought it without surveying it and found out later... how many beers would that need????

Yeah yeah I know. Worth its weight in gold it was. At least I got an hour on the water out of it. Most expensive daysail EVER.

jwreck · #4 (**permalink**) 03-31-2010

Just goes to prove it wasn't the right boat for me.

PaulinVictoria · #5 (**permalink**) 03-31-2010

Ah well bud, bring on the next one, things often turn out for the better

xsboats · #6 (**permalink**) 04-01-2010

Better drink five more , just so it won't happen again.

bljones · #7 (**permalink**) 04-01-2010

Next time, take the time to read the "inspection trip tips" post here, and do a decent "pre-survey inspection" yourself, it likely would have taken that C and C off your list. If you are unsure whether you are competent to know whether gear and hull are worn out, ask someone to go along with you to kick the tires. It never hurts to get a second opinion, anyway.

2Gringos · #8 (**permalink**) 04-01-2010

could have been worse, you could have drunk the five beers before the inspection and decided to buy it anyway.

bljones · #9 (**permalink**) 04-01-2010

Which boat was it , btw? The raced C&C?

NickPapagiorgio · #10 (**permalink**) 04-01-2010

I've never bought a boat so I have no firsthand knowledge, but isn't $1,000.00 for a survey kind of expensive? I always thought they were a couple hundred?? I guess it depends on the size of the boat...