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Boat Buying Basics

Melanie Sunshine Neale

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English
Globe Pequot Press
05 August 2025
Boat Buying Basics takes you through how to find and purchase the boat that will best fulfill your dreams and needs. It provides clear, step-by-step guidance on researching and analyzing boat listings, understanding the survey process, making the purchase, navigating the complexities of the closing process, and securing insurance and financing.
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Imprint:   Globe Pequot Press
Country of Publication:   United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781493089611
ISBN 10:   1493089617
Series:   Sheridan House Guides
Pages:   160
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Melanie Sunshine Neale grew up living aboard her family's 47-foot GulfStar sailboat, cruising up and down the East Coast and through the Bahamas for nearly twenty years, and earned her US Coast Guard 100 Ton Master Captain's License before she got her driver's license. Melanie has bought and sold six boats of her own and has facilitated the sale of hundreds of boats during her tenure as a yacht broker with Edwards Yacht Sales and currently as founder and owner of Sunshine Cruising Yachts, a medium-sized yacht brokerage located in Florida but with brokers worldwide. She received the 2022 Sailing Industry Distinguished Service Award. Melanie is the author of the memoirs Boat Girl and Boat Kid (Beating Windward Press), and former contributor to Cruising World and other nautical magazines. She has worked as everything from minnow scooper at a bait & tackle shop to adjunct professor at a university. She's a single mom to a teen and lives in St. Augustine, Florida, with a six-toed cat and a Boykin spaniel. Melanie is dedicated to matching people with the right boats.

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""There are few people who know boats and the business of buying and selling them as well as Melanie Neale. Here she provides us with a granular yet eminently accessible guide to the emotional, often confusing process of finding and obtaining the boat of your dreams. No matter what sort of boat you're looking for, this book will prove a valuable resource.""


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