Your First Powerboat: How to Find, Buy, and Enjoy the Best Boat for You
Language: English
Published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2008
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- Title
- Your First Powerboat: How to Find, Buy, and Enjoy the Best Boat for You
- Author
- Armstrong, Robert J.
- Publisher
- International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0071496734
- ISBN 13
- 9780071496735
Navigate the hazards of boat ownership with absolute confidence
Next to your house, your boat may well be the biggest investment you ever make. Buying and owning a boat involves one baffling decision after another. Yet informed, impartial guidance is almost impossible to find--until now, that is.
This essential manual provides a method to the madness of boat buying and ownership, plotting a straight course through an ocean of confusion while it answers such questions as:
- Why fractional ownership often makes sense
- How to avoid buying a boat you'll never use
- How to identify the Goldilocks boat--not too big, not too small
- How to choose a powering option
- How to negotiate the best deal on any boat-new or used
- How to be your own surveyor, and why even a new boat may need a professional survey
- Why you should finance your boat even if you have the cash, and where to find the best loans
- How to calculate the total cost of ownership before you buy!
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About the Author
Bob Armstrong is a respected boating author and journalist, a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed Master, and a boat captain since 1962. He is the author of the bestselling Getting Started in Powerboating. Armstrong works as a charter-yacht captain and consults on boat purchasing decisions for individuals and businesses. He has worked as a boat surveyor, a buyer's and seller's agent, and an expert marine witness.
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