Dates, tickets and parking for FLIBS 2026, and how a serious buyer should plan the week, what the show cannot tell you, and what a show contract should say.
In Florida the job is defined by statute, carries a bond, and one specific failure is a third degree felony. Here is what the licence means and how to check somebody out.
King tide season is back in South Florida, with flooding already reported from Hollywood Beach to Collins Avenue. Here is what the extra water at the dock can tell a buyer about a boat, a dock and a seawall, how to tie up during the bigger tidal swing, what it means for a seller trying to show a boat well, and why the last king tide window of the year lands the same week as the Fort Lauderdale boat show.
Hours and price are in the listing. These are the questions that actually change a deal, grouped by when to ask them, from the first phone call to the closing statement.
A place in a factory schedule, a short menu, a payment calendar, and one delivery clause that decides what the quote really means.
A detail takes half a day. Maintenance takes years. How to tell which one you are looking at before you pay for a survey.
Walk it in a fixed order and most bad boats tell on themselves before you reach the engine room. A filter, not a survey.
Fifty miles from Port Everglades, and a real ocean crossing at the same time. The paperwork, the safety gear and the fuel math to settle before you leave the dock.
He asked for a license, he got one, he liked the guy, he hired him. Six months later there is a yard bill nobody approved.
Rates have settled. The conditions attached to a policy are what got harder, and insurance is still the thing most likely to move your closing date.
Buying and selling notes, what surveys actually turn up, and what South Florida yards are quoting. One email a week. No listing blasts.
