Located a nice 21 Parker in late Feb. Worked out a deal with owner. Boat was in a marina blocked by a couple other boats, owner told me in writing the boat would be available for shipment in 2 weeks. Boat is about 2 hours away in another state. Small yard and marina.
6 weeks after cashing my check – 4 weeks after I was promised boat would be ready, I still don’t have it. I called the marina once and was told – “we’ll call you when we get around to it, don’t call us again”.
I am a patient guy but finally had enough last week and told prior owner to talk with marina and have the boat ready for shipment next week or refund my money. Deal is between you and me, not marina. After threatening legal action he finally call’s marina for the first time, then leaves me a message – “as of yesterday Governor just shut down all marinas, so it won’t be ready until May” and in his exact words I am “SOL”.
That’s if they decide to open things up in May (2 months after he cashed my check) and marina decides to move the one boat that’s in front of it now.
Meanwhile his new boat at that same marina has long since been in his slip. Our marinas in NJ are open and my slip has been available for weeks. Boat haulers have commercial exception so shipping is no problem. If the lazy lying slob kept his word my boat would be in my slip well before all the shutdowns started.
Nice boat, but in hindsight I’ve been around long enough and should have realized early on the guy was a jack ass and just walked away. All’s he cared about was my check clearing. At this point I'm thinking of just calling my lawyer and have her handle the mess.
Don't underestimate the potential problems of taking possession of a used boat especially when it's in a private marina / yard like I did. After talking with a hauler familiar with the area I was told my problem was not unusual. Once they know a boat is leaving their marina, they have little interest in helping you out.
With all the virus crap going on I know people have much, much bigger problems – but I really hate lying BSing slobs who don’t keep their word.
6 weeks after cashing my check – 4 weeks after I was promised boat would be ready, I still don’t have it. I called the marina once and was told – “we’ll call you when we get around to it, don’t call us again”.
I am a patient guy but finally had enough last week and told prior owner to talk with marina and have the boat ready for shipment next week or refund my money. Deal is between you and me, not marina. After threatening legal action he finally call’s marina for the first time, then leaves me a message – “as of yesterday Governor just shut down all marinas, so it won’t be ready until May” and in his exact words I am “SOL”.
That’s if they decide to open things up in May (2 months after he cashed my check) and marina decides to move the one boat that’s in front of it now.
Meanwhile his new boat at that same marina has long since been in his slip. Our marinas in NJ are open and my slip has been available for weeks. Boat haulers have commercial exception so shipping is no problem. If the lazy lying slob kept his word my boat would be in my slip well before all the shutdowns started.
Nice boat, but in hindsight I’ve been around long enough and should have realized early on the guy was a jack ass and just walked away. All’s he cared about was my check clearing. At this point I'm thinking of just calling my lawyer and have her handle the mess.
Don't underestimate the potential problems of taking possession of a used boat especially when it's in a private marina / yard like I did. After talking with a hauler familiar with the area I was told my problem was not unusual. Once they know a boat is leaving their marina, they have little interest in helping you out.
With all the virus crap going on I know people have much, much bigger problems – but I really hate lying BSing slobs who don’t keep their word.
