When would you refuse to sell your boat?

Yes I think if it was me Id have to have a discouraging chat with him, tho I wouldnt push it.. but if hes adamant? All you can do is say the words.
 
WoodyP said:
Today I travelled to meet someone who wanted to look at my boat with a view to purchasing it.
He has no knowledge of how to sail, no navigation, no knowledge about anything you need to go for a sail. He wanted to buy it at a substantial discount for him to sail across the Bristol channel around Lands End and on to Southampton single handed. I was to give him a couple of hours shakedown then off he would go. All this within two weeks of his upcoming holiday which he planned to do the journey. He would learn on the way.
I suggested he put it on a lorry and learn to sail in his home water.
Lovely bloke, but a potential captain calamity.
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I'd cheerfully sell him the boat.

I wouldn't be providing training and I'd want some reliable assurance that the boat was going to be removed from my mooring.
 
I think a good option if possible would have been to take the buyer out for a test sail on as rough and blowy a day as possible, and give him plenty of 'simulated singlehander ' time, ie let him get on with it while you watch. Then return to shore and revisit delivery plans in the light of his updated knowledge.
 
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Bouba said:
I am an Old Testament sort of guy....but in our caring, soft society....you might have a duty of care selling to a vulnerable customer. Whether reckless is vulnerable....might take a judge to sort out
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That doesn't seem very likely.

If it was, the same principle would surely apply to anything you sold.

Sell somebody a bike and they fall off; sell somebody a tin-opener and they cut themselves; and you're in court!
 
Poignard said:
That doesn't seem very likely.

If it was, the same principle would surely apply to anything you sold.

Sell somebody a bike and they fall off; sell somebody a tin-opener and they cut themselves; and you're in court!
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If you sold a bike to a blind person and they fell off....there could be consequences. If you sold a bike to a child and they fell off....or to very hyper adult....
 
I sold a boat (a Sovereign 54) a few years ago, to a Norwegian guy, who paid the deposit and said when it's gone through, let me know and I'll send you the rest.....
Sure enough, 2 days later the deposit appeared, told him, and another couple of days later, the full remaining balance!!!
The thing is, he never came to see the Boat. He bought it blind!!
Me and the Missus spent days saying, this can't be true,....it's a con.....Shall I pull out of Selling?? and many, many more questions.
He turned up 3 weeks later, waited for his mates to arrive, and they all buggered off in the boat!!!
Weirdest way I ever sold anything......
 
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