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for us to upgrade the boat to standards the boat had no requirement to meet and he essentially expected us to adjust our price to bring the boat to perfect condition with almost every upgrade he thought appropriate which is ludicrous on a twenty three year old boat his demand was so sloppy that he asked for a price adjustment for the steaming light not working at least three different times because it was reported on three different surveys which he clearly did not read carefully five figure demands for electrical work with no documentation to support it etc etc we went round and round and the fellow refused to 1 document the reasons for his financial demands or clarify them 2 consider any of our responses to his demands except to demand more from us and 3 negotiate in good faith any of the terms of his demands by this point the survey and sea trial we d once again moved most of our stuff off the boat sold more gear and where prepared to move off within a few days finally the buyer agreed to a settled price in an e mail in the middle of the night but then rescinded the agreement a few hours later before our broker was even awake to see it and he decided to completely walk from the deal even though we d agreed to meet him roughly in the middle on his ludicrous unjustified and unmerited demands kathy and i were strongly of the opinion that he d failed to honor the terms of his contract by refusing to adequately provide his response to the survey in writing by just giving us a sloppy cut paste with no reasons for the demands and we should have been able to keep his deposit but we did not and this once again cost of a lot time aggravation and not a small amount of money the worst was that we were back to square one again with no buyers and no prospects because of this deal we d lost at least one potential buyer who didn t want to wait and see if our deal went forward there s a lot more spitting and fuming i could do about that whole deal but it s not worth the energy even writing about it eight months later makes me angry third time s the charm after several more months in the new zealand winter some price reductions and more attempts to twitch the market and get some action on the boat a guy who d been watching her for some time made a move it wasn t an offer we wanted to jump on with enthusiasm but after some back and forth discussions we decided to go ahead with it this time we didn t do a thing to get ready to move before the survey sea trial because we d had such a good survey done a few months before by one of the top surveyors in nz we were able to shortcut that process the buyer wasn t in nz and couldn t come to see the boat but he found a surrogate to sea trial the boat and have a look over her to check the surveys against the real condition after two go rounds and broken deals we didn t book a flight or pack a box or move anything off the boat finally we got a green light that the deal was going non refundable when the buyer accepted the boat and his deposit wouldn t be returned if he backed out and then the real scramble began we d realized that given the timing of the deal in late november early december we d be able to spend the holidays with our family for the first time since 2019 if we moved fast so we booked a flight as soon as we knew it was a go and started packing and boxing and selling the last of our unessential personal stuff we left the boat for our flight early in the morning on december 9th we had to get to auckland for a same day covid test at 9 30 in the morning thanks to new u s rules before waiting all day in the airport to get on our 8 30pm flight out of auckland thirty nine hours later we landed in washington what s next after nine years on a boat with no fixed address the life of a shiftless drifter has much appeal to be honest the idea of buying a house or getting a lease felt too much like nailing one foot to the floor than trying to keep on living we had two major objectives selling the boat and returning to the u s be closer to family with our adult children back stateside and our parents all in their eighties we felt an overpowering need to be near everyone downsize and regroup evenstar is a wonderful boat but we bought her for cruising with two teens in our view she s much too large and expensive for a couple of empty nesters given those main objectives how to live easy really keep cruising but do it on land in an rv since our family is spread out all over the country there really is no better solution but to move around from place to place to see them the last two months have been a mad scramble to set up life for land cruising we ve moved onto a fifth wheel trailer and bought a truck to tow it with we re making plans to drive cross country with danielle when she graduates in may spend the summer near will then come back to the east coast for the holidays with family again we spent our first month over the holidays freezing our backsides off at a campground in virginia learning how to live on an rv during an unexpected blizzard that knocks out power for a week of below freezing temperatures was an education yes it s a rather large truck now we re in florida enjoying the warmth and working out the kinks in our new lifestyle rv life is quite different from cruising under sail but there are many many similarities too we plan to give it at least a year to make sure it s want we want for a while it s an ending but it s not the ending the wheel of time has neither endings or beginnings the next few years we see as more of a hiatus from cruising than an end to cruising and sailing forever it s very very strange not having a boat for the first time in over twenty years it s odd not to hear the lapping of waves or the clicking of shrimp on the hull but it s also good to be there for our families and we re enjoying the time together some day maybe in five years maybe in ten we hope to head out again for the horizon for now there s a lot to see on the roads in north america and more memories to make with our families the future of this blog is more in question i probably will still take pictures and write stories about our travels but it s a very very different thing and we don t own the boat anymore but i can still point the rig at the equator and drive when it gets too damned cold so we have that going for us share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin more print opens in new window print share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like this like loading posted in uncategorized 5 comments of failed boat sales and mislaid plans on mar 22nd 2021 published by b j i ve not updated the blog in well forever because life has been mundane with not very much sailing we ve been in new zealand since before the pandemic and life here has been mostly normal since the virus isn t out of hand weekly poker games lunches with friends boat work and other typical non adventures don t make for high adventure and compelling blog content we had a few interesting things happen though with an almost sale of the boat which fell through and of course lots of boat work sold not sold as we announced about a year ago we re selling evenstar to take a hiatus from cruising for a few years we had her listed with a broker just as the pandemic broke out and her listing languished the problem wasn t so much the lack of interest in the boat there was plenty of that but the inability to come see the boat was a deal killer as a matter of pure chance our broker allowed our listing to lapse and a fellow came walking down the dock admiring boats one thing led to another and a month later we had a contract to sell the boat to a local sailor such a deal is fraught with challenges and that we were selling the boat without a broker made it that much more difficult a few issues include currency risks we wanted to be paid in u s dollars the buyer had all his money in new zealand dollars importation evenstar is not a new zealand boat and for her to live in nz she would need to be imported and duties paid due to how nz law works it s cheaper to import her before she s sold but that means we have to do it paperwork lawyers evenstar s ownership documentation is all in u s jurisdiction and would need to be changed to new zealand nz authorities and the buyer need assurance all loans and liens are paid off and the title is clear this means lawyers surveys inspections and negotiations as much as sailors slag on yacht brokers competent brokers do perform many useful functions not only do they smooth the above paperwork they also act as a buffer between buyer and seller when sorting out differences of opinion regarding a survey outcome that last sorting out differences of opinion regarding a survey outcome may have been key to keeping our deal afloat alas it was not to be without publicly airing laundry over the whole affair suffice to say that we disagreed with the factual inaccuracies and speculative assertions made in the survey we trusted our knowledge of the boat its condition its capabilities and everything we ve learned about her in fifteen years the buyer trusted a surveyor who couldn t find the start battery or properly count the number of life rafts on board those differences of opinion proved insurmountable the survey wasn t without merit it highlighted one issue we ve since dealt with and brought to our attention a few potential issues we could proactively avoid in the future pre sale madness one key part of the deal was the dates the seller wanted to get a full kiwi summer out of his new boat which meant a closing before christmas this was understandable and we did our best to accommodate this even though it would cost us some money and a lot of work though we didn t relish the prospect but what madness ensued we ve owned evenstar for fifteen years and lived on her the last eight we have no other home and we keep only a few things in storage back in the u s everything is with us and the pandemic did not afford danielle a chance to go through her stuff properly and move out of the boat but we had a plan we d get a storage unit and move everything we were taking back to the u s with us there then ship it back once the smoke cleared eight years of cruising meant a ton of gear and equipment on board not all of which would convey with the boat so while sorting and discarding we were also cataloging and selling a wide variety of tools gear duplicate and triplicate and quadruplicate spares and most things of value to world cruisers but not necessarily to a coastal nz sailor and when the survey rolled around we d pretty much succeeded almost everything but our basic living needs was off the boat we d reserved some gear in storage since our plan was to buy a motor home to tour new zealand for the remaining months we could stay we d even found one put a deposit on it and cleared the electrical and self containment certificates on it and then it all blew up post sale letdown of course the deal melting down was an immense disappointment we got lucky on a few things like getting our deposit back on the motor home but we still had most of our stuff in paid storage a boat without a listing broker and off the market in the key spring and summer months and our plans once again in ruins so what to do regroup reorganize and get the boat back on the market with a vengeance of course unfortunately the boat deal blew up at our drop dead closing date in the week before christmas of course the good news we d get to spend a final christmas together in our home instead of somewhere else a hotel a holiday park on a camper who knew but we were feeling pretty unsocial by then and a quiet holiday at home was just the thing the bad news is that much of new zealand shuts down from the week before christmas until about the second week of january so the boat work we wanted to do to help re enter the for sale market had to wait we couldn t get a callback for a quote on anything until well after the new year never mind get scheduled for a haul out and work living in a van down by the river the first step was to address the one legitimate finding in the survey a weeping from the crack between the hull keel joint water coming from there when the boat is hauled can be a sign of trouble and could not be ignored after consulting several reliable expert sources we determined that we needed to torque the keel bolts with an externally ballasted boat like evenstar the keel 19 800 lbs of lead is held to the hull with a number of strong bolts they bed these rather aggressively in the lead and attach to the hull at a lattice of reinforced strong points but in essence ten tons of lead spends its life hanging off the bottom of the boat after twenty three years and many thousands of miles some flexing and loosening in the joint and bolts is normal in theory torquing the bolts a little is easy put on a wrench and whack it down tight in practice the bolts are under all the tanks and only a couple of them can even be seen never mind tightened without moving the tanks this turns a mundane task tightening a bolt into a more complex feat of engineering since evenstar has two water tanks and two fuel tanks over the bolts when we could finally talk with a yard we figured it would take about two weeks with the boat out of the water to sort out the keel bolts the surveyor had suggested the entire keel needed to be removed and the joint inspected a massive and expensive undertaking to us this seemed akin to cracking a patient s chest open to check out a heart murmur it just wasn t needed until we determined there were bigger problems life on the hard i think i ve discussed the little joy that is life on the hard in a sailboat out of the water you can t use the boat s heads sinks or refrigeration systems you can stay on board but life is a nuisance since you re climbing up and down ladders to get to the toilets and you have to cook and do dishes in the marina s kitchen facility if there is one but this project would disrupt the interior of the boat not only would we have no food storage cooking washing or toilets we wouldn t even have a floor or stairs down into the boat or even a little ridge of wood to get a toehold on when lowering yourself into the boat like spider man or some thief sneaking past a security system life aboard would be impossible two weeks or more at an airbnb or hotel were in our future plus an awful lot of eating out there had to be a way around this the little blue van the solution came to us in one of those kath you re probably going to hate this idea moments she really does hate it when i say that get a campervan it seems obvious now but facing a few thousand dollars in hotel rooms and dining out why not just buy a little 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