The 20-minute dockside method that separates a real cruising boat from an expensive hole in the water
Every volume pays for itself the first time it stops you from signing the wrong boat
The 20-minute dockside walkthrough before you sign anything
All 3 volumes — hull, cost, and the numbers that decide bluewater vs coastal
Price the real cost before the yard bill arrives
A surveyor works for the sale, not for your wallet. This is the system that decides whether you even get to that step.
All 16 chapters of the complete system
Marcus Kellerman
I spent eleven years brokering and surveying used cruising sailboats out of three East Coast marinas before I stopped taking new clients. I watched retired engineers, disciplined savers, careful men who'd never overpaid for anything in their lives, sign for boats they hadn't really looked at. I started writing down the exact sequence I used myself — the same twenty minutes, the same seven checks, the same questions that make a broker go quiet. I tested it across more than 140 documented boat inspections before I ever wrote a word. This isn't theory. It's the walkthrough I wish someone had handed me before my first boat.
For over a decade I watched capable, careful men do more diligence buying a used car than a $90,000 boat — not from carelessness, but because nobody ever gave them a real method, just a survey and a handshake. I wrote this because I got tired of hearing about the 'quiet sale' eighteen months later, the boat that went back on the market at a loss nobody wanted to discuss at the yacht club bar. Every checklist here came from a real boat, a real dock, and usually a real mistake I watched someone almost make. I organized it so you could run it yourself, in twenty minutes, before a single dollar changes hands. That's the whole purpose. Nothing more. Marcus Kellerman
If you walk the dock with this system and don't feel more prepared than the broker standing next to you, send one email within 7 days and get every dollar back. No forms, no hassle — you keep the checklists either way.
Twenty minutes with this system costs less than one bad decision on a boat you haven't checked
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