So there you are. You've just bought the boat of your dreams. You know little about her apart from she is filthy, things keep falling off and she is held together in lots of places by gaffer tape. Do you a) Spend many hours fixing her up and learning her foibles or b) Climb aboard and set off on passage from Weymouth to Essex?
Choose option a) and there is a fair chance that things will work out OK. Choose option b) and there is a fair chance that things will work out like this!