| Learning a yacht's history
Carfax is a pretty good tool for cars, but it's only one tool and they don't try going international. We use them because they're a cheap way to safeguard a few thousand dollar purchase. For boats it's on each purchaser to investigate, and it's not really that hard. Follow the documentation trail to previous owners, get to their captains, engineers and mechanics. If you don't have the tallent to investigate hire a PI or an independent broker to do it. If you're about to spend copious amounts of money on a toy, suveyors, fuel, etc., etc. what's a couple of thousand for it's history when that may keep you from making a bad deal.
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