Irish Rover
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2017
- Messages
- 80
- Location
- Turkey
- Vessel Name
- Irish Rover
- Vessel Make
- Fountaine Pajot Greenland 34
I'm relatively new here and I only recently bought my boat through a broker [vendor's] in Greece. Getting everything sorted has been a bit of a pain because I'm in Turkey, the boat and the broker are in Greece and the vendor is currently in the Canary Islands plus I'm registering the boat in Jersey, Channel Islands. I posted on another thread about the difficulty in getting the broker's cooperation when I initially wanted to view the boat and there have been other small issues since I agreed to buy but I've just tried to get through them without having a row with the broker. I eventually got a scanned copy of the Bill of Sale a few days ago and sent it off to the Registration Office. They asked for history of ownership for the previous 5 years which I knew should not be a problem as the previous owner had the boat for 10 years so I asked the broker to send me the BOS from when the vendor bought the boat. He did but it showed the guy I was buying from bought the boat jointly with his wife 10 years ago and so is not entitled to sell the boat now as a sole owner. So this "highly experienced, professional brokerage" with offices in 2 European countries hadn't even bothered their tail-ends to check the legal ownership of the boat before they offered it for sale or when they prepared a contract or the Bill of Sale. Oh and guess what - they are now blaming the owner because he never told them his wife was a co-owner and are taking no responsibility themselves. In fairness to the vendor he doesn't speak any English whereas all the paperwork is in English and the broker is English speaking. I was going to say I feel sorry for the vendor paying money to these incompetents but then I remembered it's me who is paying it in the end . Rant over