Sold my old boat and now it's a bit wet!

[Grub54891]

Re: Sold my old boat and now it's a bit wet!

The marina there does not have a bar,It's just up the street a bit! Everyone who goes to a bar is not an alcoholic,there is such a thing as social drinking. I go and get on some football pool's and leave. Nuff said about that.
Grub

 

[V153]

Re: Sold my old boat and now it's a bit wet!

Fwiw the majority of marinas 'round here have restaurants & Tiki Bars, and/or beer & wine available for sale on the premises. Too bad some folks can't handle their liquor. But that's not reasonable cause to ruin it for those who do.

For the record I'm surprized no one remembers just how fast celebratory drinking can turn to depression drinking ... ?

 

[waterinthefuel]

Re: Sold my old boat and now it's a bit wet!

At the marina we sometimes use you have to go into the restaurant/bar to pay your launch fee.

 

[V153]

Re: Sold my old boat and now it's a bit wet!

At the marina we sometimes use you have to go into the restaurant/bar to pay your launch fee.

See? And speaking from experience carry only enough cash into the bar to cover the launch fee. Otherwise ya might get distracted. If you should decide to stay in the bar please make sure to occasionally check'n see if yer boat's still floating ...

 

[Grub54891]

Re: Sold my old boat and now it's a bit wet!

See thing got way out hand As far of the responses, all I wanted is to state is what a person should do in in this problem

Young people that screwed up, should not be hazed like this .....
Just the old owner talking now. If I find anymore updates on the history or this I will let ya know..........

 

[glenn property of pam]

Re: Sold my old boat and now it's a bit wet!

i dont see someone sinking there first boat as the problem. the problem was that once they sunk it they had to realise that at some point they would have to clean up the mess. it was unfair that they never fezzed up and told the coast gaurd that they sunk a boat or got help to remove the boat. it sounded more like the guy sunk it then decieded to walk away as it was no longer his problem.
a friends of mine sunk a wood fishing boat in harbor about 15 years back then came to me crying when they sent him a bill for 3000 (uk) per day. i took a week of work to deal with the problem and found the harbor master real helpful. he told me that he had given my friend 2 weeks to sort the problem and only sent him the fine to get him motivated.
i tryed on 4 low tides to pump out the boat and refloat it but it was stuck in the mud and even with a truck trying to break it free i had no luck. i removed all diesel and oil then on the 5th low tide we used a scrap yard crane and took the boat out in pieces and dropping the parts on the side of the dock. the next day i go to the dock to do the clean up to see people cutting up the wood for fire wood and the engine and trans was being carted off by a scrap yard. i grabbed a coffee and sat around until there was only a handfull of stuff to remove then headed for home. i told my friend good news the boat is out and the harbor master is dropping the fine's. he had so many questions about the condition of the boat and if the motor was ok after being sank in salt water.....urrrr what boat :redface:

 

[roscoe]

Re: Sold my old boat and now it's a bit wet!

A small boat like that only has the wallet sized card for the registration. I signed it for the transfer and he was to send in the paperwork. The hull numbers,stickers stay the same but I should have pulled off the square year stickers.

I really don't understand how pulling off the decals or registration numbers would have changed anything.

It still would have ended up on the bottom.


If you were to be held responsible, now you add no registration charges to the bill.

If you are not liable, then there is no benefit to removing the decals.

 

[crazyinkc]

Re: Sold my old boat and now it's a bit wet!

I ran into a similar situation last year. I sold a boat on ebay back in 08 to a guy in Joplin MO. He was overseas in the military but his wife was home so I delivered it to them and forgot to pull my tag off the trailer or the KS sticker off the boat. I called the lady the next day and asked her to remove the tag and cut it up for me and she said she would so I felt from the type of person I thought she was I could trust her. Well... summer of 11 (around June I think) my wife calls me on my cell saying thier are two sherriffs deputies looking for me. I was shocked since I am the type who usually dots every "I" and cross every "T" but this one. I was able to speak to one enroute to home and he asked if I was missing a boat. I have sold several boats between that time due to upgrades or the wife just not liking them but I did have two boats at that time and was worried someone stole one. After a brief conversation with the deputy, I realized it was the boat I sold back in 08 but that was 200 miles from home. Come to find out, the guy never registered the boat or trailer and his wife never pulled the tag off so it had all of my stickers/tags on it. I guess it was sold to another party because the guy came home and took one look at it and put it up for sale. Anyway, now I make sure I pull the stickers and go to Wildlife and Parks and get it out of my name. I also keep a signed copy of the bill of sale on every boat I sell. There is more to this story but I could almost write a book on it so I tried to keep it short.

 

[Home Cookin']

Re: Sold my old boat and now it's a bit wet!

Whether it's a car, boat, trailer or box of golf balls, a seller is not responsible for what the buyer does with it, regardless of title/registration. But that's where the cops start and there can be a presumption you still own it and are responsible. Since it's better to avoid a fight than win one, best to take care of "untitling" whenever you can.

People neglect trailer registration especially, but also boats, much more than cars, figuring less chance of being pulled over, a way to save some $$, etc.

I bought a used boat a few years back and the seller, when he pulled out the title, realized he had never processed it into his name. Luckily he knew the guy he bought it from; we callled that guy and he authorized my seller to sign it to me for him. It was a situation where the seller was a "friend of a friend" so I could trust him; I was lucky.