Ancisace

That all makes sense. Thanks for the advice. Sadly don't have a convenient grown-up I can drag along with me so keep an eye out for amputee bunny rabbits cause I'll need all the luck I can get, I suppose.

I'm currently in the process of looking for a boat to buy. Assuming I've had a look around and agreed in principle to buy one, how long do I have to find and arrange a survey? In an ideal world I would have sounded out a few surveyors in advance, but I don't really know when or where I'll start the process yet so it seems difficult to pre-arrange anything. Additionally, someone showing me their vote mentioned that it was VERY difficult to find a marina with capacity for out-of-water surveys at the moment - "everyone's booked up until September at the earliest". Is that the case? If so, would an in-water survey be enough to be reasonably confident in what I was buying?