Tomorrow morning, I will drive up to Dundalk, MD (Baltimore area) to the marina where the yacht is berthed currently. I will meet with the certified Surveyor and the Yacht Broker. At 9:00 am we will start the process. The surveyor will check and test every component on the yacht, from the bow to the stern and everywhere in between. The yacht will be hauled (moved out of the water by a huge tractor with slings) and the survey will check the external hull, the fittings that are “through the hull”, the drive shafts, and the props for damage or faults.
Then once all of these things have been accomplished, the survey will move to the sea trial process. The yacht will be moved back into the water and we will start the engines moving outward of the marina and into the Chesapeake Bay. The sea trial can take as much a several hours but should only be about three to four. Following the sea trial we will return to the marina, dock the yacht in her assigned slip and return her to the current owners. I will then write a check to the surveyor and to the shipyard for the haul out services.
Within 24 hours the surveyor will provide me with a detailed certification of the existing condition of the yacht. If all goes well no problem and we move forward with the acquisition, if not, the option to correct will be given to the owners or I will have the option of choosing to effect the corrections myself. Adjustments of the purchase price may result.
But, we have faith that the yacht will come through all of the certification, evaluation and sea trial testing with flying colors. See what an optimist I am?
More following the activity tomorrow, Thursday March 3, 2016. Stay tuned.
Author: harv1941
Just a summary, I am 84 years of age, retired in July 2013 and settled down to promoting the dangers of bacterial meningitis, which killed my beloved son, Mike in 2009. My wife, Charlotte, and I embarked on an adventure of live aboard cruising, aboard a large Blue Water motor yacht. While our beginning was rather fraught with hurdles, we continued to look forward to the day we moved aboard the Misty Lady and cruise the eastern seaboard and associated waterways. After more than four years of life aboard this Bluewater Motor Yacht, I developed an advanced problem due to interaction with medications and experienced rather frightening balance problems. Therefore, getting on and off the yacht was fraught with danger of falling between the docks and the boat's hull. Walking the docks was also problematic considering that our yacht club docks were all floating docks and my balance problem was a danger during the walk from our yacht's docking slip to the clubhouse or out to the DC Wharf facilities and our car housed in the yacht club's reserved garage. SO, we had to regretfully put the Misty Lady up for sale and move back on shore. We moved on shore, first into a condo apartment in Alexandria, then after two years there, we relocated to the city of Newport News, in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Our original desired location was in the city of Hampton, Virginia, which is the oldest English-speaking settlement in the United States having been established originally in 1610. My ancestors came to this country through this settlement in the mid 1600s and lived in that area for around 100 years before beginning a migration of one portion of our family toward the west.
I looked forward to moving back to this area and exploring the roots of my family, both maternal and paternal ancestry, but we found a great house in the Newport News area and became ensconced in the terrific neighborhood of Kiln Creek. My wife, being still actively employed, received a substantial offer in a position with a government contractor firm back up in Northern Virginia. So we put the Newport News house up for sale, receiving and accepting an offer withing two days. We then relocated back up to the city of Alexandria and into another high rise condo. My wife reached a point where considerations for retirement were becoming very important. She indicated that she really didn't want to retire in Alexandria, so once again we began a house search in the Tidewater area, this time in the City of Williamsburg and in a community restricted to 55+ age owners. We found the ideal location, initiated the sale and closing for our retirement home. We then put our condo on the market. Alas, the market was not as robust as before so we had to change asking price a couple of time, but finally the Alexandria Condo was sold. Now we are set to enjoy the great locations found here in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area, considering that we are history buffs and there are literally hundreds of historical sites in this segment of our nation. Of course living in Williamsburg is the epitome of history living life.
So, now we are in our retirement home, in a great retirement type community. A great clubhouse with a fine dining restaurant, a grill/pub, an award winning PGA designed golf course and miles of walking trails. Looking forward to my wife's eventual full retirement and the two of us visiting all up and down the east coast historical spots.
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