Oh Crap!

A 65' WHAT?

My bad. Was looking under new posts and didn't see the section on the right.

first your friend buys a lemon ... & now u do ...

what's not right here ???

anyone ???

It sounds like you have purchased a rare yacht with a rare layout. two thumbs up, right?

Not all that unusual. It sounds like you bought a boat designed for the day charter-fishing business. You're lucky if the salon was enclosed. Staterooms are wasted space if you don't carry overnight paying customers.

That's an interesting way to buy a boat. Was it an E-bay auction?

Could that have something to do with why there were several boats? Evidently you didn't even see pictures of the boat if you didn't know there was no master SR. I've seen people who did that with cars. They were on People's Court. That was only dealing with a couple thousand $'s though. Differences in condition on a boat could easily be a difference of tens of thousands of dollars at least. You have a prime example there. It's the difference between "never been fished" and "used and abused in the day-charter fleet". What would you estimate as the cost to install a master stateroom?

The only thing that surprises me at this point in life is that nothing surprises me. We can only hope that Shazam is pulling our legs, but I'm not surprised if he isn't.

Hi,

I am not sure if that is how I would describe it.

The OP is a boat builder who does not seem to know very much about the regulatory side of things given his HIN Post yesterday.

First we have a $4m Sportfish which is older than it looks that was never checked by the Buyer at all.

Next we have a Donzi 65 that doesn't have a Master Cabin and this was also never checked by the buyer who is a boat builder who 24 hrs previously made this statement: http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/117065-post31.html

Make up your own mind.

certainly seems that way ... as is the other one ...

That's why a Donzi is considered a semi-custom SF. I've never heard of one built without a master, but someone could've ordered it that way. There are a lot of Carolina custom boats running around that were built with no master stateroom either. Some have a few rooms with bunks, some 1 room with bunks and the rest is a salon etc.

There's a 2006 80' Hatteras MY over in Dubai right now that aside from the master stateroom, the 3 other guest staterooms are all bunks, 1 has 4 bunks, another 3 bunks, and the 4th stateroom has 2 bunks.

I guess it goes back to buyer beware.

I suppose the price was VERY right?

Mike