28 Brave value?
 

I am looking at a 91 28 Brave that has been completely restored. Motors are low hour 496 strokers, hyd steering, B1s,...what's it worth? I love the boat and trying to make a deal but we are $10k apart on price. Im not trying to lowball the guy by any means but I don't want to be completely upside down in it from the minute I hook up to the trailer.

Not enough information. What do you mean by completely restored? Cause a lot of people have different definitions of what they consider a restoration. Was the transom replaced? Were the bulkheads replaced? Has it been repainted, if so by who and when? 496 strokers? Were they 454's at one point? How far are they bored over? Are they lower hours on rebuild or new? Closed cooling? What kind of internals? Has the electrical wiring been redone and if so by whom? What shape is the interior in? Whats the trailer like? What does it need? They all need something.

Mint.........with newer paint job, newer transon and transom assemblies, newer outdrives, newer power less than 150 hours, closed cooling, hydraulic steering, newer interior, nice trailer, basically mint and needs absolutely nothing I think is worth $50K IMO. Start with that number and subtract what it cost to get it there and that is your number. Will cost more than that if you buy one for $25K and try to make it mint.

Yes, new transom, boat was completely stripped! bulkheads were good, exterior completely stripped and repainted, under 140hrs on 454s bored .060 over...not rebuilds. fresh water only, best of everything internals, complete interior is new, livorsi gauges, in all honesty...this boat needs absolutely NOTHING!

There is a 2001 35 Sutphen with your name all over it D! Well it's all white but I could paint your name all over it.

Derek is there a boat your NOT looking at? What happend to your 35' sonic dreams???? 28 a/t??? 35' cafe??? Good god man...

My thoughts exactly! And I second j's notion on the sutphen, a lot of boat for the money if its nice.

Im not brand loyal to anything ...looking for a good boat. There are alot of deals out there right now. The sutphen is a ton of boat for the money but I don't want blower motors. Only reason id buy a 35 cig is cause I've always wanted one. Realistically I will pry stay around 28' so I can still tow it with my truck and I have a budget I want to stay in so I can use my boat whenever I want.

You need a nice 20' sea ray bowrider for your family. I can cut you deal on my dads 94' signature. It's priced right lol

Nah...hate to take your inheritance away. You should ask your dad if you can borrow it so you can still get some boating in this summer...

I think my inheritence lays in the form of acreage, vacation properties, and barns full of green tractors.

With that sed ill ask him what he'll take for the sea ray for ya

Wish I could of found one like that. Worth $40-50K IMO, especially if you don't have to travel for it. Sounds like its in better than new condition. They went for $80-90K back in 1990; new will cost more than 3X that so your still getting a fair deal IMO. Might consider looking at 33 Ocean hawk CC or Cig Open Cafe if your looking for a little more bang for the buck, but still want to boat affordably and tow.

still trying to work out a deal on it. NO CC for me..gotta have a full cabin.

Are you talking about the one on boat trader? If it is thats the one I looked into about 3yrs ago or so, it had a wrap on it of a indian head and was aqua in color. Looks good. It appears he updated the gauges and controlls, cleand the bilge and did some other things. I can tell you a newer one would be about 3 to 4x that amount. When it was for sale last time, the cabin interior needed to be re done also. I wanted a much newer boat that why I passed on it. I never had it surveyd. Never got that far with the guy. We exchanged a couple emails. Seemed like a nice guy thats about it. Looks much better now. I towed mine with a Nissan Titan 4x4 it was ok on the flat land but the mountains were a white knuckle event, I also installed a brake controller which I highly recommend if you plan on towing with a 1/2 ton truck. I bought a 3/4 ford 4x4 diesel now and it tows like nothing is even back there.
Greg

Very nice. I like the storage they added to the gunwales. Looks like he listed it right after I sold mine.........smart. Much easier to sell when you have the only one on the market.

The 33 Ocean Hawk does have a full cabin, some even have ac, and appears to be a little bigger than the 28 Apache. Have even seen them put a generator in the console to power the ac. I think it may even be lighter than the apache. Worth a look.

Buy my 311 heck you even in GR

That 1991 was in the Atlanta area years ago and was stolen and disappeared for awhile. It showed back up with that wrap it had then sold and came up here. I know theres not a lot of them, and they have been them same prices since the mid 90's.

Yup, that's the one. Love that boat...clean and simple. Stands out.

Don't know if it's true but I heard they only made 3 in 1991. From what I was told they where 100,000 plus when new.

Still trying to hammer #s out...I want this boat! Lol

Hey, Drock78,, did you get the boat? Post some pics!