Selling your boat? Hand over its story.
Buyers pay for certainty. A documented, professionally maintained history helps buyers buy with confidence, and gives the next owner a record from the first sea trial.
No history means the buyer assumes the worst.
When a buyer cannot see what has been done, they price in the unknown. Every undocumented year becomes an assumed deferred service, an impeller left too long, a fault waiting to appear. That uncertainty comes straight off your asking price.
A Vessel IQ record answers those questions before they are asked. Servicing, diagnostics, electrical work and inspections are logged as they happen, so at sale time the evidence already exists, you are not trying to reconstruct five years of ownership from memory.
A record a buyer can actually read
Not a shoebox of faded invoices. Dated service entries, engine hours, parts fitted, diagnostic results and inspection reports — laid out clearly and easy to hand over.
Verified by an engineer, not self-reported
Every entry comes from work carried out and signed off by a qualified marine engineer. That is the difference between a claim and evidence.
The full story stays with the hull
Previous work, recommendations and inspection scores carry across on transfer, so the boat keeps its history rather than starting again from zero with each owner.
A clean handover for both sides
You hand over a complete file. The buyer inherits a boat they understand from day one, and knows exactly what has been done and what is coming up.
Four steps from listing to clean handover.
- Step 01
Book a pre-sale inspection
A Health & Pre-Purchase Inspection before you list gives you a photo report and a clear picture of anything a buyer's surveyor will find.
- Step 02
Tidy the obvious items
We tell you what genuinely affects value or safety versus what can wait. Fixing small faults before listing stops them being used to negotiate you down.
- Step 03
Share the report with buyers
Serious buyers get an independent technical report up front. It shortens the conversation, filters out tyre-kickers and builds trust immediately.
- Step 04
Transfer the record at settlement
Once the sale is done, the vessel's portal record is transferred to the new owner with its full service history intact.
What sellers and buyers ask us.
Does a service history actually increase a boat's resale value?
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Buyers discount for uncertainty. A documented, dated record of servicing, diagnostics and inspections removes that uncertainty, which supports both your asking price and how quickly the boat sells.
What happens to my Vessel IQ records when I sell?
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The history stays with the boat. We transfer the portal record to the new owner so service entries, inspection reports, invoices and outstanding recommendations carry across intact.
Can I get an inspection before I list the boat?
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Yes. A pre-sale Health & Pre-Purchase Inspection gives you a photo report you can share with buyers, and lets you deal with small issues before they turn into negotiating points.
I have only just started with Vessel IQ — is it too late to be useful?
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No. Even a single recent inspection plus a documented service is far stronger evidence than nothing, and we can load your existing paper invoices and receipts into the portal so the older history is captured too.
What if the inspection finds problems before I sell?
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Better you than the buyer's surveyor. You choose what to fix, what to disclose and what to price in — instead of finding out mid-negotiation and losing control of the number.
Will a buyer trust a report the seller paid for?
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The report is a factual, engineer-signed record of measured condition, not a sales document. It states faults and recommendations as they are found. Buyers are still free to commission their own independent inspection, and many do — a clean Vessel IQ record simply makes that process shorter.
I am the buyer — how do I read a Vessel IQ history?
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You get a clear timeline: what was serviced, when, at what engine hours, what was found, what was recommended and whether it was actioned. Anything still outstanding is visible rather than hidden.
Does the new owner have to keep using Vessel IQ?
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No. The record is theirs regardless. Whether they book more work is up to them. The value of the history is that it is unbroken.
How long before listing should I book?
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Ideally four to six weeks. That leaves time for the inspection, any remedial work and a final service, so the boat goes to market documented and presented properly.
Know exactly what you are buying.
An independent IQ Health & Pre-Purchase Inspection gives you a scored technical report on the vessel before you commit — and if you buy it, that report becomes the first entry in your own Vessel IQ history.
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- Electrical & lighting
- Inboard & diesel servicing
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- Marine systems
- Outboard servicing
- Owner Portal
- Pre-season checks
- Preventative maintenance
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