United Yacht Sales ’s article about buying perfect boats.

Why is it, that when you are looking to buy a boat, you can by no means find one that suits your needs? This is what happens to many people every year and in exacting to ourselves. It’s just like buying a house. When you are selling, it is a buyer’s market and when you are exchange it is a seller’s market! This year my friend and I decided that it was time to buy our first boat.

Now we have been boating with our friends on their Bay liner for many years. They pay for the boat fixed cost and we bring the food and drink in replace. Not a bad contract we figured, until we got the boat bug ourselves. Now we want to own our own boat. After six years of boating and as many seasons of boat shows, we decided to take a boating course. So a couple of winters ago, we signed up for a rather long boating course of 16 weeks. We determined that firstly we wanted to be safe boaters and secondly we wanted to protect our very classy boat investment when the time came.

Week after week of course, lesson after lesson of machinations and tying knots came and went and lastly it was time to mark off and try our luck at boating with all this new found information. We decided first to try out our expertise on our friends’ boat, but discovered that was like having two cooks in the same kitchen. Things don’t really run as smoothly as one would like. Tie a knot. Have someone retie it for you! Hang the fenders over the side. Have someone move them! So after more than a few weekends of ineffective attempts, the decision was made to buy our own boat earlier rather than later where we could tie our own brand of knot and observe the channel markers the way we had been taught!

So we started to look. What happened to all the “For Sale” signs that we had seen only weeks before in every marina that we cruised past? Where were all those perfect boats that we had seen in every cove and tied up to every dock? They were no where to be found. Finally after perusing the yachting magazines and journals, talking to several boat brokers and searching many internet boats for sale sites, we found what we thought to be the perfect yacht for us - right in our own backyard the United Yacht Sales. Only five minutes from our home with lots of power boats. Last year there were many for sale. But as luck would have it, we were not looking then. This year, there were fewer boats for sale. But on this one particular morning as we drove through the marina parking lot, we spied the perfect boat. We hopped out of the car and walked over to take a closer look. The boat had been pulled out of the water, so we were able to look it over from all sides including the bottom.

The information that was posted beside the boat looked very promising. Just the right length, just the right age. We had already agreed that this boat make was good quality. An inflatable dinghy with motor and sea wise electric lifting system was also included. The boat also had a GPS and all the trimmings. But the price, could it be correct? It seemed a bit low for this particular yacht. You guessed it! The twin engine system was gas, not diesel. This was the reason for the excellent price.

We thought that we had found the perfect boat! In fact we had apart from for one very luxurious item. For those of you who own your own boat, you can relate to the expense of a gas engine yacht. Gas engines are fast and great for skiing and lake touring in small boats, but on the ocean and in a large yacht, the cost can be prohibitive.
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