Boat buying season has started

[Moose]

After a winter of very little interest in Toscana I now have one offer and hoardes of peeps queueing up to look at her, I am also getting loads of calls from Brokers who want a job.

I have had a browse of the RYA site and downloaded their contract but what are the major probs with selling privatly?

Oh, and hello to everybody, I should be around a little more now as things are settling down at work.

 

[BrendanS]

Had been wondering where you'd been. and Nick and Joanna as well?

 

[alastair]

We had no probs at all selling/ buying privately. We had MoG at Moodys Used Boat Show last year and only had tyre kickers. Finally sold with an free ad in Boats and Outboards. We found the new boat on the same website. We used the the RYA forms you have - they seem to cover most of the potential issues. Good luck with the sale Ian.

Alastair

 

[starboard]

Hi Moose,

Still waggling the spanners at that wide body????????

Paul.

 

[Moose]

er, well sort of. We are no longer allowed to carry tools on the flight deck after 9/11.

 

[Magnum]

I'm pleased to hear it. I'll expect some offers on Magnum soon then shall I?

 

[ulava]

aye same here tryining to sell kirann, now have new boat (orcades) malahide trawler yacht. i know i dont say to much on this site but have to agree to many tyre kickers.What is it with brokers boat at 10k comission is still same for boat at 150k well perhaps 1 percent less . how do the rest think !!!

 

[Renegade_Master]

Yes Brendan have'nt heard from Nick & Joanne for some time. Nicks uncle decended upon us last night rotten devils could have warned me what hes like, oh my head this morning /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[DepSol]

You should try to gather as many documents as possible on the title of your boat. Also show as many receipets as possible for work done.

You will need to complete a bill of sale and be able to show VAT receipts as well as any orther registration documents like Part 1 SSR etc etc.

I would go further and get some kind of agreement set up so that you know where you stand you can see what I have in my selling guide at Total Boating Yacht Brokers and see if thats any use to you.

Best of luck and I hope she sells for you.

Dom

 

[jfm]

Remeber, in general, a fancy contract will only help the buyer, not you. Absent anything in a contract, the terms of the sale are caveat emptor. In which case, the best answer for you is to have no written contract, just hand over a bill of sale when you have cleared funds, and you'll be ok

You might need protection while buyer's surveyor broddles about with your boat, but it's as easy to protect your interests just by being there, as it is to write a cntract

If the sale is to be lengthy and so you take a deposit, buyers will invariably want a written contract. In fact most of the standard contracts deal with what happens to the deposit money

Nick2 seems to be expert on this

 

[SteveE]

Nick will not look at the site, and has banned Joanne, until they get a new boat... I think lots of texts to both when the sun is out and the sea is calm should speed up the process....

 

[BrendanS]

Well jolly well tell him to hurry up and buy a boat, as it's about time he organised another Crispin meet!

 

[Nick2]

I'm here but lots of non boat stuff going on but hope to be back with some sort of floaty thing soonish. Just so much choice and so many ideas......and so little money!

BTW Clive so sorry about my Uncle Richard /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

We will be back!!!!!

Nick

 

[powerskipper]

Nick we miss your question times, and Hadriges [sorry spelling] witter.