How to buy the best sailboat: A consumer's guide to selecting, outfitting, and negotiating the purchase of a sailboat

"How to Buy the Best Sailboat" is the first complete guide to the maze of boats, builders, and brokers that confronts every prospective boat buyer. Buying the right boat, one that fits your every need, that is safe and well equipped, is the passport to a happy cruising life. The wrong boat is a ticket to a first-class nightmare. Charles Gustafson explains his time-proven method of matching boat to buyer, a method successfully used by hundreds of his students in his course "How to Buy the Best Sailboat". He covers every stage and detail of the boat-buying process, from material and design to negotiations, moorage, and insurance. The reader learns the advantages and disadvantages of various hull designs, rigging plans, and vast arrays of equipment. Twenty-nine drawings and eighty-five photos are keyed into the text. For anyone contemplating spending thousands of dollars on a new or used sailboat, "How to Buy the Best Sailboat" is a necessary bargain.