Buying a boat in Europe | Buyers Tips | Sailing Sunday
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Like, Subscribe or contact Beneteau to give us a B57! If you have any questions please leave a comment below and I will try answer as best I can. Our 10 tips for buying a sailboat in Europe Step one: Where you want to purchase your boat Step two: Research and narrow down your selections Step three: Estimate the value of your chosen boats and extra features. Step four: Fly over and view your selected boats Step five: Get drunk, you've earned it! Step six: Survey your final boat Step seven: Be prepared to walk away if your boat is crap! Step eight: Start again... Step nine: Buy your boat / use a broker Step ten: Transfer ownership and registration (Australian example) ....Useful Info..... Australian Maritime Safety Authority - Register a vessel: (for Aussies) https://www.amsa.gov.au/vessels-operators/ship-registration/register-vessel#25073 Broker we used: Henry - Imperial Yacht Brokers www.imperial-yachtbrokers.com henry@imperial-yachtbrokers.com Website we used: www.yachtworld.com www.yachthub.com www.theyachtmarket.com www.boatsales.com.au www.apolloduck.com We also google searched "Beneteau Oceanis 46 for sale" to view other smaller websites and listings day and night. Special thanks to Low Light Guy and others for requesting this video! -----Instagram----- @sailing_sunday @brittnimoffatt @ryanweepers @jacksontheshepherdx -----Website----- www.svsunday.com
Cheers guys and keep up the awesome vids!
I’m very happy with the 46 and very easy to move around especially with the bow thrusters incase we ever need them.
We have more than enough room for the 2 of us, well 3 of us I should say. I think 46’- 50’ is a great size for all on going costs and maintenance. Once you get over 50’ the prices just escalate from moorings, insurance, rego, maintenance, cruising taxes, fuel, lifting etc...
I’ve been on soooo many boats this summer (at anchor having beers with neighbors) and I have came to conclusion these newer 2014+ 43’-45’ boats have twice as much living space than ours. The 2017+ boats feel bigger again inside whilst still easy to move around in tight spots, some also now have stern thrusters for anchoring stern to the rocks which would be extremely helpful!
Taking that all into account there are some cons, the newer boats have a lot of electronics, eg, I met a guy who’s throttle broke down and he couldn’t fix it because it needed a software update or a special program to reboot it. He was stuck in a little marina somewhere on an island with no “tech guy” with the program to fix it, but that’s just one incident...
Not a good experience at all.
Quite a short version of how you bought the boat.