You’ve found the boat of your dreams. What’s next? Clarke & Carter will deal with all the negotiations between you and the vendor to arrive at a fair and mutually acceptable agreement.
We will then guide you through the buying process. This will involve us issuing an ABYA (Association of Yacht Brokers and Agents) sales agreement that is binding for both the vendor and yourself. This will require a require a 10% deposit from you (which we hold in our dedicated Clients Account), subject to any survey being carried out and any other conditions on your purchase being met.
We have a list of locally approved surveyors you can choose from to inspect the boat on your behalf as part of the pre-purchase survey. We will liaise between your surveyor and the boat yard to facilitate this inspection.
If re-negotiation is required as a result of the survey we will assist in this regard. We can obtain quotes on your behalf for any of the works required from reputable suppliers. The agreement allows for you to reject the boat and have your deposit returned if there are major issues from the survey or re-negotiation cannot be agreed.
Once a final purchase price has been agreed and you have paid the balance monies, we will provide you with the necessary documentation to confirm your new ownership of your boat and that when you come to sell it, you will have everything in order for the next owner.
Should finance be required we can help arrange a marine mortgage (see our finance page).
You will need insurance cover in place at the time of completion. We can introduce our preferred insurers to you to offer competitive quotation for comprehensive cover for this purpose.