Most purchase and sale agreements stipulate that your deposit is due once the seller accepts your written offer. The amount is normally 10 percent of the contracted price, and typically, it must be received into the broker’s trust account within three business days.
Things can move surprisingly fast between making an offer and closing the deal.
That is the question, and it vexes all trawler lovers—especially at boat-show time.
PM’s brokerage expert Jeff Merrill explains how a maritime attorney can help you understand the legal aspects of trawler ownership.
Be as sure about financing and expenses as you are about the trawler you’re buying or selling.
Insurance shouldn’t be an afterthought. It should be a top priority in any trawler purchase.
Forget the 5 percent rule. You’ll give up many other things to pay the price, whatever it is. Love always finds a way.
There’s pleasure in any boating adventure, but for some, it’s better—and safer—to be able to get to your destination a little quicker.
Preparing your team and documents before making an offer on a trawler will save you time and hassles.
We can spend years planning for a bucket-list trip and then life gets in the way. Go now.
Splashing later this year.
Karly and Evan Nietzel—aka YouTube’s @Navigating Nietzels—tailored their careers for remote work after buying a trawler, moving onboard and completing the Great Loop. Along with their pup, Ripley, they’re just getting started.
This aluminum vessel’s throwback design belies its modern systems, all installed for a Great Loop cruise.
The three-stateroom, semidisplacement model has a range of power options and a low air draft.
A solar-power system on our classic trawler lets us spend time moored or anchored with more than enough juice to meet our energy needs.
America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association has been helping boaters complete the ultimate voyage for a quarter century.
The steel-hull Nightfall, designed by William Garden, connects generations of this family through a love of cruising.
Larry Graf, the founder, designer and lead engineer of Aspen Power Catamarans, talks about Aspen’s proa hull designs and adventure cruising on his own creations from the Arctic to the Sea of Cortez.
With her vertical bow, reverse raked windshield and indoor-outdoor living space, the Galeon 430 EXP defies categorization.
