Robin, Sorry that your purchase resulted in a contentious relationship with your broker. First off, was this a buyer or sellers agent? If you secured them to find you a boat and post survey discovered something as serious as a bent prop shaft, I would put several issues up for question: 1. Was the boat in the water or on the hard at purchase? 2. Did you accept the results of the survey without a sea trial? 3. If the boat was in the hard, was the engine run at the survey, both in and out of gear?
If the boat was accepted for purchase with a "no" answer, the surveyor didn't do their job and while most surveys will include numerous disclaimers regarding liabilities, you and your broker should have caught this oversight. Did your broker recommend the surveyor? While this broker truly is not responsible for making the boat free of defects, having sufficed knowledge of the boat to be aware of major problems is part of their job especially if they are the listing agent. At the end of the day, if you accepted and bought a boat that was sold "as is, where is" and the boat had no warranty, it is hard to put blame on the broker. I would make a point of thoroughly reviewing the survey and if there was no mention of the prop shaft issue and you didn't require a sea trial, the surveyor and broker should have made the purchase price contingent on the boat being seaworthy. If you paid a lower than asking price for the boat, the price may have been contingent in the boat needing work. Often anything discovered at survey can be negotiated out of the asking price or you can walk away from the deal. This assumes that the survey was thorough, which does not appear to be the case here. Like most things in life, you get what you negotiate. If you agreed to the broker and sellers conditions up front and did little to protect your investment, then you bear the burden of any shortcomings of the deal. One exception, if the shaft was damaged in transport by a company hired by the broker to move your boat to Montreal, it may be something covered by the company that hauled or transported the boat if that is when the damage occurred. Chuck Gilchrest Half Magic 1983 35 Landfall Padanaram MA Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 22, 2016, at 10:36 PM, Graham Young via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Wow! I'm dismayed to hear you had such a terrible experience. I just reached > a verbal agreement with them on a C & C pending a survey and I am awaiting > the contract. > > So far so good, but this is concerning. > > Graham Young > Cleveland, O. > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Robin Drew via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Bridge Yachts of Port Dover, ON is a terrible boat brokerage firm. I would > never recommend them to anyone, and they should not be in the boat brokerage > business after what I just went through. In fact, they should not be in any > business. > > > I purchased a C&C 33 mark 2 from them earlier this year and everything that > you could think of going wrong went wrong. Upon receiving the boat from them > last May, I immediately discovered that the boat had a bent propeller shaft. > I then had to spend over $2,000 to make the boat seaworthy. > > > Upon communicating with Bridge Yachts who had prepared the boat for > transportation, I was told that they were not responsible for the condition > of my boat upon delivery. They told me that it was “my problem to fix the > bent propeller shaft” and that I “either sue the marine survey who did not > detect the problem” or “pursue the boat owner” (whom they were representing) > for selling me a damaged vessel. > > > They happily took their broker fee for the sale of the boat (a healthy > amount, might I add), and they charged me double of what they quoted me > verbally for preparation of the boat. > > > I tried to reason with them and get them to drop the preparation charges > after giving me such a horrible experience. However, after 5 months of > avoiding legal action, they now seem bent on extracting this money from me by > legal means yet still maintaining their position of no responsibility for > selling me damaged goods. > > > Their lack of accountability is disgraceful and they seem to be completely > unreasonable when dealing with their customers. > > Robin Drew, > Montreal > _______________________________________________ > > This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you wish > to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: > https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > All Contributions are greatly appreciated!
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