When would you refuse to sell your boat?

[johnalison]

One good thing about selling through a broker is you avoid any personal contact with the buyer.

I met my buyer of our last boat a couple of times, though sold through a broker. His surveyor had mistakenly assumed that a hull irregularity was caused by damage even though it was just a moulding fault at the bulkhead. I’m not sure if he accepted my (honest) assurance but bought it anyway. I never forgave him for renaming the boat Miss Piggy.

 

[Bouba]

For me - the factor would be my conscience if anything went wrong after guy buys.

Imagine selling to a guy - then next you hear of the boat and guy in trouble out there ... I think you'd have to be quite a hard-ass person to not feel guilt of some level ... although its not your fault.

I agree….and imagine if a rescuer also lost their life…. I certainly would let the authorities know if I had knowledge of their intended itinerary

 

[capnsensible]

I think that you could possibly master any skill using YouTube

I think that you could possibly master any skill using YouTube

I'm right up for doing a kidney transplant.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

For me - the factor would be my conscience if anything went wrong after guy buys.

Imagine selling to a guy - then next you hear of the boat and guy in trouble out there ... I think you'd have to be quite a hard-ass person to not feel guilt of some level ... although its not your fault.

If there was a defect or a problem with the boat that you didn’t disclose then yes but we are not the guardians of others other than at most offering often unwanted or ignored advice.

 

[srm]

I think that you could possibly master any skill using YouTube

Depends which videos you are watching.
I have seen a number that promote working methods that I was taught by professionals as being either bad practice that quickly wrecks the tools being used or just dangerously wrong.

 

[Bouba]

I'm right up for doing a kidney transplant.

Say you needed a kidney transplant and you were in the middle of nowhere and without medical help…. You have a choice of two people willing to attempt the operation…one of which had watched a YouTube video on how to do a kidney transplant at home…,who do you choose ?

 

[ylop]

Not desperate to sell, and boat already modestly priced. I don't dislike the chap, just trying to save him from himself.

The it’s really simple - you have no moral dilemma as the financial deal would not be accepted anyway.

 

[Paulfireblade]

Say you needed a kidney transplant and you were in the middle of nowhere and without medical help…. You have a choice of two people willing to attempt the operation…one of which had watched a YouTube video on how to do a kidney transplant at home…,who do you choose ?

Attempt, I have a vision of cooking utensils and a bottle of Vodka.
Seriously if that was all that was on offer I would drink the Vodka and accept my fate thanks

 

[WoodyP]

The it’s really simple - you have no moral dilemma as the financial deal would not be accepted anyway.

He has seen sense, and is arranging transport and found the money. Sorted.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

And a lady bought a boat in south cornwall a year or so ago, with virtual zero experience, was advised to not go to sea in Newlyn, set of to meet her husband in Padstow and was never seen again though boat found wrecked.

One presumes sail change on foredeck with no safety harness or safe system, but we will never know

 

[RogerJolly]

He's too dim to sail, on the grounds he told you his plans.

I'd have kept shtum/lied. No conscience complications....

 

[Bouba]

He's too dim to sail, on the grounds he told you his plans.

I'd have kept shtum/lied. No conscience complications....

I think his original plan was to make the OP complicit in his adventure

 

[Tranona]

I'm right up for doing a kidney transplant.

According to the surgeon who fitted mine, the actual plumbing in is one of the easiest jobs in surgery - it is all the preparation beforehand and the aftercare that is the secret to success. did a good job on me - now nearly 8 years.

 

[Bouba]

According to the surgeon who fitted mine, the actual plumbing in is one of the easiest jobs in surgery - it is all the preparation beforehand and the aftercare that is the secret to success. did a good job on me - now nearly 8 years.

Ask him to do a how to video on YouTube

 

[Tranona]

Ask him to do a how to video on YouTube

He almost certainly will have videoed it. He was the Head of the Medical School at Bristol University

 

[Petertheking1982]

I brought a little boat on trailer from marina for £250, spent 2 days cleaning and replaced a couple of ropes, then sold on Ebay for £1500. In the advert I said the wheel bearings needed replacing but the guy still wanted tow it 150 miles on the day he brought it. I ended up paying for 2 weeks storage so he could come back and fit new bearings.

 

[Poignard]

Ask him to do a how to video on YouTube

No Bouba! Please don't even think about it.

We can all remember your efforts to sort out the fuel tank plumbing on your boat!

 

[Bouba]

No Bouba! Please don't even think about it.

We can all remember your efforts to sort out the fuel tank plumbing on your boat!

But I have so many surgical gloves left over

 

[davidej]

I sold my last boat to a gentleman who, to say the least seemed “unworldly”. The boat was on the Blackwater and he wanted to keep it in north Kent, in one of those creeks running from the Swale. A nice safe if small cruising area.

As crossing the Thames can be a bit testing, I sailed it over with him and departed at the mouth of the creek, wishing him good luck.

About a year or two later, I read in the Lifeboat magazine about rescuing a man who had sailed out of the Swale into the Thames and found a F7 blowing there. He fell off, but luckily was teathered to the boat and his wife was unable to get him back on board.

Guess who was the man and the boat he fell off?

 

[billskip]

Or "Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me"

I was always asked if it was a canoe...