Pensacola FL Sailing Blog - sailingnightwatch

The search had been going on for a couple years. We had traveled and looked at boats in the southeast. This brings up the subject of Brokers. Like any other salesman, they want the high commission sales. You call and tell them your looking for a high sweet equity boat and they either hang up or tell you they have never seen a boat like that come across their brokerage’s dock. Every salesman has to on occasion get rid of someone’s trash (maybe my treasure) to make the big sale. You may have to search out the one who will work with you. You know you are not going to get a lot of service; after all you get what you pay for. I found a broker in Ft Lauderdale, St Pete, Annapolis and Boston. The agreement was that they would fax the specs and if it looked promising we would come and look. When we did they not only would show us their boat but all the other trash in the area. They might even show us a few boats above out pain threshold. I did buy the boat through a broker, which I found on the Internet, but not using one of the above brokers.