First Time Boat Buyers

If your buying your first boat you have probably come across many advertisements listing power boats, sail boats, trawlers, inboard boats, outboards boats, I/O (inboard-outboard) boats, fiberglass, gasoline powered engines, diesel powered engines, raw water cooled engines, fresh water cooled engines, along with different model types like fly bridge, sport fisherman, cruisers, runabouts, cuddy cabins, walk around, and about 5000 different manufactures.

This section deals with purchasing a used boat. Frequent issues that arise for boat buyers are discussed here along with questions that many boat buyers have. First time boat buyers  have many questions that we attempt to answer as best we could in these following pages.

Many items discussed here are explained in depth in other areas of this web site.

A surveyor can help you sort through this mess but first you must ask yourself some basic questions, that will help narrow your search.