[canals-list] Re: Pre purchase surveys

[jhar1945]

I have some friends who bought a brand new boat from a well known maker a few 
years back. The first month on board revealed a catalogue of unsatisfactory 
problems of which the builder resolved none, even after much correspondence. A 
while later they had to move on to the land due to the problems of ageing and 
sold the boat to a broker. Sympathies for the eventual buyer. 'Caveat Emptor' 
rings more true here than anywhere!
John