Swmbo and I have been sniffing round a 2003 Regal Commodore 2665, Volvo 5.7 GSI on SX DP leg. The boat started life in Texas and was imported about 4 to 5 years ago. The present owners are now apparently too ill to use her and she has been standing ashore for 2-3 years on a brokers pitch. Broker says she has around 100 hours on the engine. The boat has never been CE certified and what worries me is why in that amount of time being in the UK has this not been done. The boat also has numerous electrical faults and is wired, petrol driven Gen set as well for 110 volts. The Brokers say that they will put a magic box in that will step the marina shore power down to 110V to run the cooker, microwave etc and re wire the sockets for 240V. Fair enough I thought but they are not prepared to do any of this without a deposit. My fear is that a boat without CE certification in this country of that age is uninsurable and in many cases the insurance companies dont like grey imports anyway.
That aside we fired up the engine today which sounded ok after power packing the flat batteries. On engaging gear the whole boat shook. It does it in fwd and reverse with an almighty clunk and the transom flexes in the process. Engine revs by the way 600 on tickover. I have never heard an SX drive sound like that, it was far worse than a merc alpha drive! I was told this is quite normal???? I dont think so!
To conclude I put this to the panel. Would you put a deposit on a 5 year old £42000 car with a dodgy battery, nasty clunk from the gearbox, no log book and mot, and only half the dials working on the dash before all this work had been done? Reading through this I think I`ve posted a no brainer but I would be interested to hear what you guys think?  We really do like this boat and want to buy it but am I being too picky? Thanks in advance for your opinions Chaps. 
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