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Ken, saw your post about the condition of the Trawlers you have looked at. My experience has been the same. I am currently a sailboat owner and was gone to move on to a trawler to lessen the work needed to get on the water. I completely rebuilt my current boat so I havent had the need to use a surveyor at this point but will do so if I ever find a boat I think is worth buying. I you havent done so already purchase a few of the books on boat surveying and review them. This will save you the expense paying for a survey on a boat you already know wont pass plus not all surveyors are as good as the one you used. I have also streamlined the process of looking boats. I dont take the wife as all it dose is reinforce a negative opinion about boats. I more or less treat the brokers as used car salesmen now, the first couple I dealt with wanted me to meet their schedule wasted a lot of my time. The brokers are like real estate salesman it is a listings game. The knowledge of some
brokers is limited as they have to many models to deal with. I had one show me a Marine Trader 36. It clearly had the layout of the 34 and had the builders plaque with South Seas Hull # 30 displayed by the rudderpost. I pointed this out to the broker who didnt think it was important. I think 2 feet in a boat is important. It is very much buyer beware market in the used Trawler market.
Good Luck Jim
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