Oh Crap!

Just a light hearted joke that if you are buying 65 foot boats without seeing them, then be wary of the guys selling waterfront land which dissappears at high tide!
It actually happened while I was living in Indonesia. A bunch of US guys sold wealthy Indonesians land in the US which became swamp at high tide.
Also happened in my own hometown on the Gold Coast. A lot of land was sold at Russell Island to tourists who were taken there at low tide! At high tide, only a very small part of their land was usable.
No offense.
I assume the deal on the Donzi was so good that it was a "no brainer" to just buy it.

No big deal on the master. Get a good trim carpenter & an upholsterer & you can have any layout you wish. I have completely gutted two boats & rebuilt them. No big deal! Get rid of the full size refrigerator & counter tops, have new tops installed with under mount refridge/freezer. You could easily upgrade everything & have it looking like new in no time.

I know I had a hard time believing that someone would buy a 65' boat sight unseen. I'd never do it because no matter how good a deal you got, you could easily get stuck with a hulk that would cost a bundle to dispose of.

I think that skepticism on the Internet is natural and appropriate - in an online forum, it's hard to tell the difference between someone posting about something unusual, someone exaggerating, and someone out-and-out BS'ing. There's the famous cartoon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog

OTOH, on another forum I'm active on, some guy posted an online suicide note and it turned out he was serious: he did kill himself later that day.

DD parts have been hard to come by on the bigger engines for a while. You might have to go with aftermarket cylinder kits, which are not necessarily that great quality-wise.......Or check dealers outside of the country.

Looks like you bought the only 65' with no master because to my knowledge there is no other 65 without a master. and it's not strange that the fridge and freezer are not under counter because all 65's built after hull #8 came straight out of the RYC with a large fridge and freezer.

could you possibly share a few pics?

All other 65' Donzi enclosed bridges have interior staircases. There is a 72' enclosed without the interior staircase, though.

Is this the 65' that was repossessed?

That's so you can lock the owners out of the flybridge and out of your hair!!!!!! hehehehe

It looks like the boat was built for a certain purpose, like fishing the canyons with a bunch of guys or for overnight charters in Central/south America......It doesn't have the finish in the staterooms that one would expect a yacht to have. It looks like in the 1 stateroom that you cannot get out of the top or bottom bunk if the sliding door is shut.

What's the salon like? with those SR's and no interior bridge access it must be huge.

You've definitely got a boat built for charter fishing. How many hours?