If you buy a boat, and the previous owner says: Oh, I didn't do a lot of required maintenance because for the first 10 years of her life she sat mostly on the hard.
If you hear that, you have some options:
1--Run like hell.
2--Decide if you really, really, want the boat. If not, run like hell.
3--Know you want the boat, it ticked off a lot of what you wanted, and break out the wallet.
Elysium wasn't used much her first 10 years, maybe twice a year for a couple weeks and then on the hard for the rest. The second owner thought that routine maintenance shouldn't be an issue...since the boat wasn't used much.
Horseshit.
Whether it be boat, car or bike. Neglect is neglect. A boat that isn't used (or a car for that matter), shit will dry out, shit will seize up.
Some things were flagged on the survey and fixed at close. However, and since we are anal and like to start fresh when we buy a boat used--we found a lot of other things that needed help.
The engine and genset have got some long overdue love, the hull is getting fixed up and beautified. We found a leak in one of our hatches, so we sent it off to be refurbished. Evidently, the prop was serviced by somebody who didn't know what the hell they were doing, so we had to get that sent off, I think we just wound up getting a new prop.
The sailing part of the boat is in good shape, lines and sails, some UV needs to be repaired, but that is a spring project, for now sail tape will do.
Our ambitious and aggressive list for the boat yard is slowly getting ticked off, but we are running out of time, mainly I want to make sure the gas valve for the stove is moved outside per US standards, nothing would piss me off more to start up the stove and boom. It would really ruin my day.
Mainly, we just need to get the boat in the water so the spouse and our delivery captain can do a shake down cruise before it makes a 1000+ mile journey to the Keys. Not much to ask for correct?
BTW--I have left out names of the surveyor and broker/owner to protect the guilty.
