I have had our boat "42 foot Marinette Sedan Bridge" for sale for just about a year about. This boat is in near Excellent condition inside and out, engines only have 756 hours on both. I'm selling due to high gas prices and the cost of boating all together is very high plus dockage is ridicules here to dock. So I put the for sale sign up a year ago.

I have had a few bites but there offers were so low it wasn't even funny. Last weekend I put it through a boat show where I got a call the same day by a couple asking how much I'm selling for. They asked me to meet them up there for a test drive, so I did. Took them out, showed them everything works, ect... They said they will talk about it and come back to me (they always say that) but sure enough they came back the next day with an offer near to what I was asking for it! So I said deal!

For the last week I have been very relieved to get this payment off my hands and the price to fill up 250 gallons of gas every other week was enough to make me sick at $3.49 cents, so I was relieved I did not have to do that anymore.

I get a call today by the broker that helped selling the boat saying the owners that wanted the boat have bad credit and the bank won't give them the loan for the boat!

now I had to take the "sold" sign off it, and put back up "for sale!" ahhh!! people with bad credit suck! Now I gotta do this all over again.

 

What doesn't fall through with you?

 

Dear god, you, a boat and water could not mix.

 

I think it's safe (yes, safe) to say mittenear can swim.

 

Wow, that is a pretty huge boat... don't want to know what that sells for...

 

sounds like he barely has his head above water.

 

I had a boat, 27footer I think it was. A GD money pit is what it should have been called.

 

Yep, no doubt about it -- a boat is a hole in the water that you constantly throw money into!

I grew up on a lake, the parents always had a boat, they were fun to drive around when someone else (the old man) was footing the bill, but I've never had even the slightest desire to get myself into the "no win" financial arrangement that owning a boat tends to be!

 

Mattineer with a 42 footer! Wonders never cease!!!!

 

I've only known a few people who owned boats.

It always seemed to me that they spent much more time caring for them rather than actually taking them out.

Didn't seem like fun to me.

(Sorry jamz . . . not trying to be negative, just making an observation)

:santa:

P.S.

Christmas is coming. Yes it is! Only 204 days till Christmas!

http://holidays.bfn.org/xmas/countdown.html

 

You're a sick man Kobi....sick I tell ya'



Matt...bring that boat down here when you come. I'll sell it for ya


BREW

 

I USED to have a nice bass boat. It wasn't ever any problem finding someone to go out to the lake to fish, or just to ride around with me all day - ON MY NICKEL!

It is easy to spend a hundred $$'s or more on fuel alone in one weekend, much less towing, upkeep, insurance, storage, etc. Seemed like nobody ever wanted to chip in for expenses. It was always "Thanks for the boat ride, but I'm kinda short right now, catchya later" or something to that effect.

My big nice 21' 200hp Ranger Bass Boat is history. I have a 17' aluminum with a 50hp that nobody takes a second look at... I bought the whole thing (boat, motor, trailer, trolling motor) for less than my former 200hp motor was worth.

I don't fish tournaments, there is NOWHERE I have to go to fast so top speed is never even an issue. I can get across the lake and back on 10 gallons of gas a day of less, and I buy that at highway prices ($2.75), not at lake prices at the marina ($3.49).

Nobody bothers me, I invite whoever I want to, We had a bad day out on the lake today, we only caught about 20 lbs. of largemouth bass between two of us.