Buyer's library

Boat-buying guides

Everything we wish we'd known before our first used-boat purchase — condensed into 5-minute reads.

Inspection

DIY Boat Inspection Checklist

Walk through hull, engine, electrical, and safety gear in 30 minutes — and filter out bad boats before you pay a surveyor.

Negotiation

How to anchor low, use comps, and turn red flags into dollar-for-dollar deductions on the asking price.

Engines

What's high, what's low, and how engine hours should change what you pay — by engine family and year.

Hulls

Deep-V, modified-V, catamaran, and flat — what each hull is good at, and which one fits how you'll actually use the boat.

Paste any used-boat listing into HullCheck and get a mechanic-grade report, fair-value range, and negotiation script in under a minute.