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Got a listing in mind?
Drop the URL of the boat you're considering. We'll try to read it. If we can't, you'll paste the details on the next step.
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Reading the listing
Reading the boat's spec sheet…
Usually under a minute. Sites that challenge automated readers (YachtWorld and friends) can take three or four while we get through — we render the page, follow broker microsites, and read the deep spec data. Hang tight; if you reload, your listing stays in the box.
Found it
Is this the boat?
Paste the listing
Copy the listing page here
We can't auto-read every site (some block scraping). On the listing page, press Ctrl+A (or ⌘+A on Mac), then Ctrl+C, then paste it below. Messy text is fine — we'll sort it out.
Question 1 of 11
What's the boat primarily for?
Question 2 of 11
Where will she sail?
Climate changes the verdict — UV, corrosion, and heating load wear systems very differently.
Question 3 of 11
Purchase budget?
USD. Pick the band that's about right.
Question 4 of 11
Refit + first-year budget on top?
USD. What you'd put in over and above the purchase price.
Question 5 of 11
Who'll be sailing her?
Question 6 of 11
How much offshore experience aboard?
The most experienced person who'll regularly sail her.
Question 7 of 11
How long do you plan to own her?
Question 8 of 11
DIY tolerance?
0 = I pay for everything · 10 = I weld my own keel.
Question 9 of 11
What worries you most about this purchase?
Pick any that apply — the report will speak to them directly.
Question 10 of 11
When do you want to decide?
Question 11 of 11 — optional
Tell us how you'll actually use this boat.
This is where the mission-fit verdict gets personal to you. The analysis scores every system against your intended use — offshore passages, liveaboard life, and coastal day-sailing produce very different verdicts on the same hull. The more context you give, the sharper and more relevant that verdict becomes.
Useful things to mention: specific passages you're aiming for, hard must-haves, deal-breakers, partner constraints, how you'll use it in year 1 vs year 3.
Crunching the numbers
Running her against 40+ systems…
About a minute. We're mapping the listing against the forensic audit framework, grading every claim, surfacing the gaps that a survey would normally catch.
Your FairKeel snapshot
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Get the full picture.
The Deep-Dive is a full 40-system forensic, a fair-value range, a negotiation lever sheet, a custom surveyor brief and a broker question pack you can forward, in your inbox within 20 minutes. When the broker replies, paste the answers back and the report updates. $249 $99 USD until 2 December$249 USD
The Deep-Dive works through each of these: what the listing and its documents can answer, the exact questions to send the broker, and what your surveyor should check first. It adds a fair-value range, a case for your opening offer, and the full 40-system table. In your inbox within 20 minutes. $249 $99 USD until 2 December$249 USD
From a real Deep-Dive: 1984 Tayana 37, asking $44,900
Fair-value range
| Clean survey | $46,000 to 50,500 |
| Normal older boat | $40,500 to 46,000 |
| Bad survey | $33,500 to 40,500 |
Negotiation levers
- Two price cuts in six months. A further $1,500 to 3,500 reduction is defensible.
- A/C compressor failure, seller-admitted. $2,500 to 4,500 fix before closing, or a credit.
For your surveyor
- Which engine is it? The spec sheet lists two different Yanmars. Confirm the serial number.
- Chainplate seals. Moisture-meter every chainplate base.
Twelve levers, an eight-zone survey brief and the 40-system table in the full sample: open it
Have a test access code?
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Your report is being generated and will arrive in your inbox within 20 minutes — often sooner. You'll get two emails: the paid report (with a link to the full forensic on the web), and a broker question pack you can forward as-is.
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