First-Time Mistakes on a $1M+ Yacht Purchase
Enrique Dillon · Dillon Yachts Insights
The first serious yacht purchase feels familiar and completely different. Avoid these four expensive shortcuts.
1
Don’t marry the photo package
Marketing gets you interested. It is not a condition report.
2
Don’t shop length instead of use
“I need an 80” isn’t a brief. Nights aboard, speed, crew, draft, and real Saturdays are.
3
Don’t skip a real sea trial
A calm basin idle isn’t a trial. You want load, temperature, noise, and honesty underway.
4
Don’t ignore the ownership stack
Dockage, insurance, crew or management, yard time. Purchase price is the door; the stack is the house.
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