superheat6k
Well-Known Member
What did you end up buying ?Agree with all the above from @superheat6k @Greg2 and @Tranona
We bought our first big boat last year on the 2nd attempt have ultimately rejected the first one we sea trialled.
The first one was a Corvette and I have to say the broker (Karl Farrant) was excellent. We were very open in saying we had never been to sea on a Corvette although had looked at one etc and he was happy to take us out for a sea trial subject to deposit. The contract he used was very sensible (British Marine template) and clearly allowed us to reject for any reason, not just substantial faults. As it turned out we had a sea trial for us then a separate survey/engineers sea trial and ended up not proceeding following that. Karl fully understood and immediately refunded deposit etc and has kept in touch since.
The boat we eventually bought was through Ancasta who had a much more restrictive contract that "in theory" only allows rejection for substantive reasons. We ended up having to be quite persuasive to get a sea trial ourselves before committing to deposit, contract and survey etc and it was very quick, 10 minutes out of Lymington, 5 minutes on the Solent and 10 mins back in again!
It was enough to make us happy that the boat was good for us, subject to survey etc, and to be fair to Ancasta the team were very good once I think they were convinced we were serious not just tyre kickers (or fender bashers)
The first contract approach felt far more sensible given the large sums of money involved but you can feel pressured especially ATM when there are multiple buyers for every boat (at least in our case) but i still think you have to stick to your guns and it has to "feel" right as well as "being" right otherwise you'll never be happy with it
Good luck in the continued search Trevor
