Second best day!

sugilbert

sugilbert

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Well, this is a very sorrowful but happy day. They say “The 2 happiest days in a boater’s life are the day he buys a boat and the day he sells his boat”. I found out about the second day!



The time was right. Boat is still in great shape for 21 years old, and I am getting to the point that fall cleaning & winterizing is a royal PIA. As we got older, we used the boat less & less, so all the work is for 6-8-10 days per year! Added to the right time is the Pandemic (Chinese flu!) created a seller’s market.

Not to worry (or maybe you will?), I'm not going anywhere. Here to stay!
 
I'm with ya, Steve. we went to sell our '03 Cruisers 3372 a few years back, and found a bad manifold took out a head. ended up repowering for decent $$$. We quickly realized we'd never get that money back in a sale, so we decided to keep it a few more years. Like yours, ours is in great shape for 18+ y.o. (and repowered!), so we'll defer our 'bitter sweet' date for a few more years.
 
I'm the second owner of a 1983 Trojan International Express

This boat was featured on the floor of the Convention Center at the Miami International Boat SHow in February, 1983

Likely hundreds of people climbed aboard this boat

Original owner bought her at the show and owned her for 18 years.

In August I will hit my 20th year with her

Many, MANY memories and good times aboard

we were always protected and SAFE

a boat is much more than a combination of fiberglass and machinery

therefore the attachment and old saying. . .


RWS
 
I miss it already. Can't help but think it won't get the maintenance I did, loving care I gave it, nor the attention to detail.
 
Some years ago I wanted to sell my 18’ Bayliner as I wasn’t going out in it much anymore, so I put an ad in an online forum. I immediately received a call from a woman in Brooklyn who had a strong Russian accent who said she was interested. I told her the price, and without haggling at all, she said she would overnight me the check. The next day the check arrived, and because the whole seemed rather scammy, I took it to the bank from which it was drawn to verify its legitimacy, and they told me it was 100% on the level. I deposited the check and immediately mailed he woman a receipt. Weeks went by and I heard nothing, and now it is late October when I usually winterized the boat, so I called the lady and asked her when she intended to get the boat, explaining that I lived on a mountain and we sometimes get early snow. She said she would send two guys to get it Saturday. So Saturday comes and these two very nice young Russian gentlemen pull up in a large pickup, and without even checking the boat or even asking to have it started, they back the truck up, have the trailer hooked up in 5 minutes and are ready to go. Before they left, I asked if they could explain what this was all about, and hey politely explained that with all the lakes, boating had become very popular in Russia, but there were very few boating manufacturers, so the lady in Brooklyn would buy boats in the U.S. and resell them in Russia for twice the price of purchase. As long as the boat was 18’ or less, the fee was the same as transporting a car overseas, so that was the magic number. So off they went, heading directly to Port Newark, where my boat was going on a container ship to make its journey across the Atlantic. So somewhere on the other side of the globe, my old Bayliner is plying some Russian lake.
 
So Im sitting here about 2 weeks after selling my boat, even though I made out very well with the sale I have a sense of loss,

Although I have a possible replacement already lined up anything can happen before it’s a done deal.

So Im just suffering on my new deck wondering if ill ever get to have the peacefulness of the water again1627685128763.png
 
Tim R said:
Some years ago I wanted to sell my 18’ Bayliner as I wasn’t going out in it much anymore, so I put an ad in an online forum. I immediately received a call from a woman in Brooklyn who had a strong Russian accent who said she was interested. I told her the price, and without haggling at all, she said she would overnight me the check. The next day the check arrived, and because the whole seemed rather scammy, I took it to the bank from which it was drawn to verify its legitimacy, and they told me it was 100% on the level. I deposited the check and immediately mailed he woman a receipt. Weeks went by and I heard nothing, and now it is late October when I usually winterized the boat, so I called the lady and asked her when she intended to get the boat, explaining that I lived on a mountain and we sometimes get early snow. She said she would send two guys to get it Saturday. So Saturday comes and these two very nice young Russian gentlemen pull up in a large pickup, and without even checking the boat or even asking to have it started, they back the truck up, have the trailer hooked up in 5 minutes and are ready to go. Before they left, I asked if they could explain what this was all about, and hey politely explained that with all the lakes, boating had become very popular in Russia, but there were very few boating manufacturers, so the lady in Brooklyn would buy boats in the U.S. and resell them in Russia for twice the price of purchase. As long as the boat was 18’ or less, the fee was the same as transporting a car overseas, so that was the magic number. So off they went, heading directly to Port Newark, where my boat was going on a container ship to make its journey across the Atlantic. So somewhere on the other side of the globe, my old Bayliner is plying some Russian lake.
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Tim Back in 2004 - I had a 19" Bayliner I bought new about 3-4years prior...it was October in New Jersey. I put the boat on EBAY and sold the boat for the same price I paid for it new. The buyer was from Australia. Similar story - didn't seem legitimate - went to my bank to verify - was all good and I took it to Baltimore for another fee and they loaded it on a ship to Australia.
 
Congratulations. Been there, done that. We had a 23' Cuddy Cabin (Arrowglass). Bought new in '91 for $17K, put 25 awesome years of memories on her and has been mentioned, we got too old and worn out to maintain her, which was costing more every year, too. I had a hard time selling it, even though it was in excellent condition. Finally put it on eBay (living in NC). Just a few hours later, a guy used the "buy it now" at $6K from Florida and drove up the next day with a big pick up and two other guys, cash in hand and off she went. He didn't even want to hear it run, which it would have just fine as it was just coming out of "winter" storage. I have no idea what it's future held, but I was happy to get what I did. There will be another one in our lives, just not right now. Bittersweet.

Side note, we had tried to move up to a 26 or 28 but the prices were insane. I don't know who's buying these things, but it sure isn't the middle class.

Mark
 
While we enjoy the RV and the traveling it enables, we still rue the day we sold Freedom.
 
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