Buying a Boat Long-Distance
$9.99How to buy a boat you cannot stand in front of — without getting burned. Hired eyes, escrow, and every long-distance trap with its fix.
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How to buy a boat you cannot stand in front of — without getting burned. Hired eyes, escrow, and every long-distance trap with its fix.

The skill everyone watches and nobody teaches. Three principles, calmly applied — and the one spring-line trick that makes it look effortless.

The three systems that run your boating life — the fuel that moves you, the water you drink, the waste you must handle legally. Working knowledge that prevents the three most common bad days.

The Captain’s Guide to getting paid what she’s worth. Two identical boats. One sells in 47 days near ask. The other sits nine months and closes 14% lower. Nothing about the boats was different — everything about the pricing, the presentation, and the negotiation was. This is that sequence, start to finish. The carry-cost math…

What a captain does when the cone points at South Florida. The exact order of operations — off-season, 72 hours, 48 hours, 24 hours, and after.

What a captain looks at before you write the check. Forty-seven inspection points, in the order a working captain walks a boat — from the paperwork you check before you drive, through the engine room where the money hides, to the records that tell you who really owned her. This is the walk-through that happens…

Fifty miles to another country, done the way a captain does it — the weather window, the paperwork, the flags, and your first ports.

What to do after you buy the boat — in the order that matters. Week by week, from paperwork to shakedown.

Before you sell the house and move onto the boat — the honest questions, from people who know what the dock smells like at 6am in August.

The paperwork habit that keeps a boat running and sells her for more. Five fields per job, the schedule behind them, and why the binder wins.

How to test a boat before you buy her — the way a captain does. The WOT run most buyers skip, the smoke that tells you where to look, and every system checked.