Nearly buying a catamaran in Martinique report (incredibly long post)

Don't know why he doesn't chust call himself after his boat;

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Well, if it's name dropping...swmbo came back from Waitrose on Dec 23 saying what a nice young man Thom Yorke seems to be. Apparently Waitrose had introduced a special queuey arrangement for Christmas so that everyone was herded behind a line and allowed to move forward to the tills as they became free (avoiding the problem of quick queues and slow queues). Anyhow, our Thom bimbles up to the front with his basket and plants himself behind the one person being served (not realising the special arrangements, see). You can't do that, sir, sez the manager. Thom, realising his mistake doesn't say he can do what he effingwell wants cos he's the singer from Radiohead and he's famous. He just gives a little smile and goes to the back of the queue.
 
Quite right too, though I suspect there will be a 15 minute epic in the pipeline, complete with ethereal wailing on the Ondes Martentot and fractured, "challenging" guitar solo from Johnny Greenwood, about the existential angst of queuing in Waitrose, even if it is a posh workers' co-operative.
 
you should have refused the boat but put an offer in on the t shirts saying when you do buy a boat you like the name and would like to call your boat that amd the t shirts would come in handy
 
Lucky escape - wot was the registration?? I know you have to sign a declaration to not sell the vessel in St Lucia, think it's the same in the French islands - Antigua is OK but lots o paperwork etc..
 
TCM = The Catamaran Man

Interesting story Matt.

Its all down to the broker. Take the buyer out of the equation and the whole story/experience would be different i.e. boat location, access, sellers intentions etc, etc.

Interested to know, would you have paid the asking price if it had been set at 97% of the advertised price?
 
Re: TCM = The Catamaran Man

i asked myself the same question - did i have a pathological aversion to paying asking price? I don't think so - having seen othrs i had a fair idea of reasonable price and it wasn't a total steal. The broker threw the slightly-adjusted price past me before we went, so i was offering that and in any eent 97k for 100asking is pretty decent and not insulting imho.

The main issue was soethingi hadn't bargained for - that there needed to be good relationship between buyer and seller when the transaction is remote, and we both failed in that regard. Yep, i shdn't have blow up at him but it was some way down the line by then, he seemed unable and unwilling to take a walk in the buyers shoes - and eventualy we just ran outof time when surveys, finding marina berths and so on should have taken place pretty soon after arrival with boat there on the dock, not at anchor. Him being a novice seller (of anything) also a problem, perhaps. By the time he had agreed the price that the broker himself had suggested a week beforehand, I had been on the island four days,and boat still at anchor and marina office shut...
 
Re: TCM = The Catamaran Man

I had two buyers recently, so was hanging out for 100%. Buyer A sat it out for a bit while buyer B came along, both offered 93% - so I refelected and accepted 98.3% from A, when B came back found out he was up for bidding the same but too late in the end. Money in on Friday with a bit of luck!!

The mistake both made was not to establish flexibility on price before they came (both a fair distance, but not quite Atlantiqueish distance).

Buyer A had a similarish experience to you - chartered a single engine jobby and flew from Weymouth to Carnarfon in total cloud after 1,000 feet, chuckng it down and blowing a hooley - boyos at C/fon got the shock of their lives when they radioed in for clearance,hardly see a plane in good summer never mind dark winter /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Re: TCM = The Catamaran Man

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The main issue was soethingi hadn't bargained for - that there needed to be good relationship between buyer and seller when the transaction is remote,

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Totally agree from both sides of the equation.
Boat we are buying (in Spain) - we have got on very well with the sellers, both when there and remotely - hope they feel the same way - and this has made a huge difference.

Boat we are selling (in UK) - we had one interestede party recently to whom I took a dislike within 30seconds of the first phone call. SWMBO and son showed him over the boat, and she was just wishing he would go away and not make an offer (which he hasn't, surprise surprise) - we just didnt want to have to deal with him, or for him to take away our pride and joy.
 
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