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Re: Any boat owners in here.
New boats are hard to find right now, thus the high price of buying a used boat. Here is a local boat builder (Maryland). The build a very nice boat but they are not cheap. http://www.judgeyachts.com/
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07-20-2021, 07:08 PM #14
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07-21-2021, 07:20 PM #15Veteran Poster
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Re: Any boat owners in here.
Thank you very much for your considered response Cam. All really great points. That bilge story sounds awful! I'm thinking about taking a boating course and then renting a boat, starting small and going larger with experience. Maybe rental experience translates into loving a boat and buying one.
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07-21-2021, 10:28 PM #17Veteran Poster
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I guess the key is buying a boat would easily cost me more than that, right? I'm figuring an outlay of like 40 to 60 k, then winterizing, maintenance, slip fees, etc. The bottom line seems to be boating is a very expensive outing no matter how you cut it. Thinking if I can rent a few times over the course of a season, that would let me know if I should eventually buy one.
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07-22-2021, 10:33 AM #19Hall Of Fame Poster
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Re: Any boat owners in here.
I don't think I would buy a boat unless I had property on the water and my own slip and boat lift. My brother in law lives in a river house on the east side of Mobile bay/Fairhope area. Except for the occasional extreme flooding that destroys everything beneath his house once a decade or so...... he's got a good set up for taking advantage of boat ownership.
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