In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we enjoy a day experiencing a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45.1 haul out and survey in Puerto Marina de las Salinas at San Pedro d...

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If all goes to plan and the survey comes

good, it looks like we're buying this

boat. Yeah exciting we're gonna get our

home. Yeah so it's big day today,

today's the day that we get the yacht

surveyed. She's right behind us.

Yeah, Jose is already standing in the

cockpit waiting for us. If all goes to

plan and the survey comes good, it looks

like we're buying this boat. Yeah

exciting a floating home. Yeah so we're

having the survey and a test sail as

well aren't we. Yeah we'll see

that'll happen this afternoon. Yeah. OK.

Alright fingers crossed. Yes. We

originally looked at this yacht in

January, but it wasn't actually on the

market. No, the broker showed it to us

anyway because he knew was gonna come on the market because he was selling the

owner a brand new boat, there was due

sometime around the end of this this

year. (flashback) The Sun Odyssey 45.1 that we did get on is a 22 year old and it's

not actually on the market yet. The guy's

buying himself a 48-foot Hanse, which is

still being built in the factory in

Germany. We we did express interest in it

but we wanted to have another look at it

when we came back from our sailing

courses in Gibraltar. Yeah, the owner

actually began putting us under a bit of

pressure because he all of a sudden

realized that he had the potential to

get his new boat a lot quicker if we

bought his old boat sooner rather than

later. And we did like the boat

so we actually agreed to offer 75,000

Euros for it, it didn't have all the bells

and whistles that we really wanted but

it was in really really good condition

for a 23 year old yacht. Yeah so we

arranged a haul out date as well. Yeah.

For a survey and I think it was two

days before the the haul out was due we

got another email from the broker saying

that the owner of the boat wouldn't sell

for anything less than 80,000 Euros.

And he'd also said that he was going to

take everything except the bare

essentials out of the boat - so that was...

So we at that point, we we pulled out of

the deal because we just felt that the

owner was all take and definitely no

give. Yeah it didn't feel right at all, it

was... gut instincts were sort of like

going don't like this. Yeah. So here we

are two months on and the agent or

broker now owns it and he came up to us and offered it

again for the original 75,000 Euros.

She is a 1995 Jeanneau Sun Odyssey

45.1, so she's forty five

foot long, with just under two thousand

hours on the engine. Yeah so really low

engine hours. You were a bit worried about the state of the keel weren't you?

Yeah the keel and also the non-existent

anodes, well almost non-existent anodes.

They were really chewed away, but then

Frank our surveyor started tapping

around and giving the hull and keel a

thorough going-over and he was quite

happy to report that he couldn't find

any faults with it at all. So most of the

stuff that we were looking at was just

cosmetic and in fact Jose the broker

actually replaced the anodes within half

an hour. Yeah right there and then,

absolutely no quibbles. So obviously we noticed that the anodes were

really corroded, but Jose is now swapping

out all of the anodes.This one here, I'm

about to show you a close-up, was taken

off the prop shaft. So the survey took most of the day

to complete didn't it. Yes it did take

a long time. And eventually they took it

off the hard and they put it back into

the water for a test sail.

That seemed to go pretty well, she's back

in the water where she belongs.

Let's go see how she rides!

Well what a big day that was! It was a huge day. What time is it? Last

time I looked at the clock it was about

5:00 5:30 so it's past that. But it's

been very informative. Yeah. So we're gonna buy a boat. How exciting is that!

There's um a couple of things that need fixing or replacing.

One major thing is the standing rigging, but we spoke to the

broker, who is actually the owner of the

boat now, and he's happy to fix what is

needed once the report from the surveyor

comes through. Or give us a reduction in

price, but we'd rather have it fixed, it's a lot easier for us to have it that way.

Yeah so I think there will be quite a few celebratory drinks tonight. We bought

a boat! Right now we've got a 2 hour drive home. OK. So that's it, the survey came out

really much better than we anticipated.

Yeah the broker is being very generous

in how far he's prepared to negotiate to

make sure that we get the right the boat,

in the right condition for us to just

get on board and sail away. So Jose and

Marina have been very helpful, extremely

professional and very attentive

throughout and even with the language

barrier and that's where marina came in,

she was the translator, there's been

excellent communication via email

and verbally with them all the time.

Yes they've been very very

professional and and really helpful. Yeah,

in fact he's been very generous really I

think. Yeah I think so too. I think that

he's gone above and beyond what I would

have expected an agent to do, so

yeah thanks to Jose and also thanks to

Frank because he's done a very good

survey as well. Mmm excellent work from

everyone concerned yes. So the upshot is we've got a boat and we're just waiting

to move onboard, that's pretty much it.

Yeah it's exciting!