Tunajoe
Senior Member
So I flew to Fort Lauderdale this weekend to have the NT 32 I'm under contract with surveyed.
Right off the bat, I get to the boat and find that the owner of the diesel survey company isn't there, and instead one of his helpers is doing the survey.
He tells me the generator started and then quit after 2 minutes of running.
He states that he doesn't think it's a big deal. "Probably something simple".
No sooner than the words left his mouth, the power turned off from the AC throwing the breaker. We flip the breaker on the shore power and I then see the aft AC control is flashing an error code and is no longer working.
So now we are sweating like crazy in the South Florida heat and humidity.
One month ago, the owner spent almost $1200 "trouble shooting" the AC.
Obviously they didn't fix it. I also remember the broker telling me they "fixed the breaker issue", but didn't understand what that was in reference to at the time.
Since I found this boat for sale, I've had concerns about a few things but dismissed them since the boat was so damn clean. Its a 2004 with 550 hours on the engine and frankly, the boat looks like it's hardly been used.
It's got great electronics, the gel coat is in great condition as the boat was supposedly only used by the owners 4 months a year and then stored inside a climate controlled building the rest of the year.
It has all the options I want.
One month ago, $10,000 dollars was spent on the boat doing all the maintenance, bottom painting, rebuilding of the drivetrain (cutlass bearings, dripless, shaft trued, etc. new impellers for both generator and engine, belt replaced, racors replaced, broken exhaust support arm welded, etc.
5 months ago, another service was done redoing the heat exchangers, oil coolers, etc. for around $2500.
I have all the invoices for this recent work. Weird thing is, on the $10,000 worth of invoices, under the parts column, there are charges for parts, but no charges for the labor to actually install or replace the parts. Then on one invoice they charge for the labor to do something, but the parts aren't billed on the invoice.
So in the last 5 months, approximately $12,500 worth of work has been done on the boat.
I guess I should be happy that all the regular maintenance work has been done.
But it scares the hell out of me that after all this recent work, major things still don't work. It's an expensive boat, and I don't really want to have to dump more money into the boat once I get it back to California.
I'm still waiting for the surveyors report, but really I don't think it will make a difference. I think the AC has gremlins, and by the generator not running, I wasn't able to have it properly surveyed.
I think I'm going to walk.....maybe cold feet?
Any insight or opinions?
Right off the bat, I get to the boat and find that the owner of the diesel survey company isn't there, and instead one of his helpers is doing the survey.
He tells me the generator started and then quit after 2 minutes of running.
He states that he doesn't think it's a big deal. "Probably something simple".
No sooner than the words left his mouth, the power turned off from the AC throwing the breaker. We flip the breaker on the shore power and I then see the aft AC control is flashing an error code and is no longer working.
So now we are sweating like crazy in the South Florida heat and humidity.
One month ago, the owner spent almost $1200 "trouble shooting" the AC.
Obviously they didn't fix it. I also remember the broker telling me they "fixed the breaker issue", but didn't understand what that was in reference to at the time.
Since I found this boat for sale, I've had concerns about a few things but dismissed them since the boat was so damn clean. Its a 2004 with 550 hours on the engine and frankly, the boat looks like it's hardly been used.
It's got great electronics, the gel coat is in great condition as the boat was supposedly only used by the owners 4 months a year and then stored inside a climate controlled building the rest of the year.
It has all the options I want.
One month ago, $10,000 dollars was spent on the boat doing all the maintenance, bottom painting, rebuilding of the drivetrain (cutlass bearings, dripless, shaft trued, etc. new impellers for both generator and engine, belt replaced, racors replaced, broken exhaust support arm welded, etc.
5 months ago, another service was done redoing the heat exchangers, oil coolers, etc. for around $2500.
I have all the invoices for this recent work. Weird thing is, on the $10,000 worth of invoices, under the parts column, there are charges for parts, but no charges for the labor to actually install or replace the parts. Then on one invoice they charge for the labor to do something, but the parts aren't billed on the invoice.
So in the last 5 months, approximately $12,500 worth of work has been done on the boat.
I guess I should be happy that all the regular maintenance work has been done.
But it scares the hell out of me that after all this recent work, major things still don't work. It's an expensive boat, and I don't really want to have to dump more money into the boat once I get it back to California.
I'm still waiting for the surveyors report, but really I don't think it will make a difference. I think the AC has gremlins, and by the generator not running, I wasn't able to have it properly surveyed.
I think I'm going to walk.....maybe cold feet?
Any insight or opinions?
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