The purchase of a sailboat on the Internet - the perils and dangers

The Internet is a great and wonderful thing when you find out almost anything you want to know, and buy everything you want and can.

However, when it comes to investing in your dream boat, it pays to be very careful and hard before you buy with one in advance. And remember that boats, like cars, often to see much better in a photographic image than in reality!

The following is an example of a situation very cautiously real life I have met in Papeete,French Polynesia.

... "E 'at this point our team is the one Australian sailor slowly working his way back to New South Wales combined. I met in the Balboa Yacht Club in Panama. E' account unbearably painful, and here again here as an example of precaution.

Some eighteen months earlier he had bought a boat, through the private sale on the Internet. E 'status' to 'to' Mystic River, Connecticut, United States. Has come to discover that the boat was in a distantworse condition than he had brought, was to believe. He spent the whole winter working and living conditions on board freezing is preparing for the trip.

Imagine waking up every morning with ice cream will depend on your mustache, and crawl out of bed, go downstairs, trudging through snow a foot in the bathroom to get up, and then begin the workday with the fingers to move that barely the brain in hibernation, and numb. For an Australian raisedNSW heat must have been soul destroying.

During this period he spent on the craft than it originally paid. This was not part of the plan! Finally, under sail, has his date of travel must be repeated after a disaster with another - too many to list here, and too depressing to consider. The latest news, our team was here he was in Papeete. Her sails were taken when his engine had several days entirely from Tahiti, and he said that the necessaryParts of five weeks to come. Was now the fund and three thousand miles from home.

Visit aboard his boat the next day, our captain and crew brothers could not believe the terrible conditions in which he lived. The boat was dark, wet and cold despite the warmth of Tahiti, If the smell of mold and rot was almost unbearable, and after a brief chat and look around in its many problems, our ground crew succeed Winklefor a warm and sunny for obligatory Hinano Café. Here's his outlook rather gloomy light, as the amber liquid becomes effective.

A respectable time later, they make their departure, waving cheerfully as he disappears down the dock in his boat, no doubt correctly looked at the vast majority of things that are before setting sail again.

Like the time our little ship left Tahiti for the parties again, and had never heard of - had a VHF radio onOnce on board, but was ineffective at best.

From time to time his name has been possible in a conversation about his progress and the place, but not by any means of contact, our team only imagine what and where.

Since there were no reports of missing boats or fall over the next six months, one could only assume that eventually back up in Australia - all the prayers that went up to that, "for us," safety at sea the sailors One day his nameon the list. "

The moral of this story is never part with money on the Internet for each vessel before a visit by themselves, and preferably also by a licensed marine surveyors. If you go on a cruise at sea for a long period of time you want to know who meets the criteria and be able to go against the conditions at times difficult to meet on the street.

Best practice would be that the Internet is only a research tool to be used for research vesselthat suits your needs, and then put in motion a thorough and rigorous procedures to be followed strictly.

This ensures that when you are completely happy and come to a point to negotiate a price you feel well or your location. Ideally you will have a price with the seller agrees to pay a deposit, the balance on delivery.

In this strictly, you end up with a well-found vessel, which will be many happy years of sailing andThey will take to many of the cruises in this beautiful land.