Decision support built from evidence, assumptions and explicit limits.
CYR is designed to help a buyer decide what to do next. It does not claim to turn a public advert into a physical survey, engineering diagnosis or formal valuation.
1. Listing and evidence review
CYR starts with the genuine advert and any material the buyer provides. It extracts useful facts such as make, model, year, asking price, engines, location, dimensions, equipment claims, maintenance statements and visible gaps.
Limit: missing or inaccurate listing information remains missing or uncertain. CYR should flag that uncertainty rather than silently fill it with assumed facts.
2. Fit against the buyer's brief
A boat is assessed against the buyer's stated requirements, not against a generic idea of a good boat. Hard limits, preferences and compromises should remain visible so a cheaper or more attractive listing is not presented as a match when it fails the brief.
3. Comparable asking-price evidence
Where relevant genuine comparables are available, CYR uses live or recent asking-price evidence to show the boat's market position and important differences between listings.
Limit: asking prices are not achieved sale prices and the used-boat market can be thin. CYR therefore presents price sense and comparable evidence as decision support, not a certified valuation.
4. Risk and evidence gaps
CYR looks for material unknowns suggested by the boat's age, engines, drive system, advert wording and missing records. The output is intended to generate better questions and priorities before travel or survey.
Limit: a risk flag does not prove a defect exists. Physical condition must be established by appropriate inspection, testing and qualified professionals.
5. Ownership and cost exposure
Planning figures may combine visible assumptions for berth, insurance, fuel, servicing, lift-out, maintenance exposure, other costs and contingency. Delivery planning may compare sea passage and specialist road transport where relevant.
Limit: these are planning ranges or allowances, not supplier quotations, insurance offers or guaranteed future costs. The assumptions should remain visible so the buyer can challenge or replace them.
6. The decision output
CYR may frame the next step as pursue, hold and verify, or stop. That recommendation is a structured interpretation of the evidence available at that point, with the reasons and unknowns shown alongside it.
The buyer remains responsible for the decision. A serious purchase should still use appropriate survey, engineering, legal, finance and insurance advice.
How the £50 manual report is quality-controlled
- CYR first checks whether the genuine listing contains enough information for a useful manual review.
- Relevant comparable listings and available evidence are reviewed rather than presenting an unexplained single score.
- Unknowns and assumptions are separated from known facts.
- Price positioning, cost exposure, evidence gaps, negotiation points and viewing priorities are presented with limitations.
- The report is positioned before survey, not as a replacement for one.
Early-stage disclosure: CYR is still building its public track record. It does not currently claim a statistically validated accuracy rate, industry certification or a large volume of completed checks.