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wingnit 12-07-2014 10:47 AM


Originally Posted by Wildman_grafix (Post 4229297)
What do you mean all your friends are gone by the time you hit 50?
Where did they go!

He ran them off with his charismatic attitude before he reached 30. :drink:

BTW....All my 50+ YO friends can out party your young whippersnapper a$$ and we have the $$$$$$ to do it. :angry-smiley-038:

Quick2500 12-07-2014 11:22 AM


Originally Posted by wingnit (Post 4231302)
He ran them off with his charismatic attitude before he reached 30. :drink:

BTW....All my 50+ YO friends can out party your young whippersnapper a$$ and we have the $$$$$$ to do it. :angry-smiley-038:

LoL, not to mention, what you kids think is cool, we did over a decade ago.

Jupiter Sunsation 12-07-2014 11:30 AM

Lots of good points here but also remember the thread I started a few months back along the line of 500K to spend on a boat. Buy it, run/insure/maintain it for 5 years and then you get to keep the change left over when you sold it............it was a decent length thread and not one person picked buying a new boat (not even with free money!).

f_inscreenname 12-07-2014 11:31 AM


Originally Posted by Jean-Claude (Post 4231252)
thank god Bieber is now you're problem and not mine ;) and those seem to be like old american uniforms ;)

I guess you are right but eventually you will get back the broke and wanted by the law Beiber.

Jupiter Sunsation 12-07-2014 11:37 AM

Also consider, places like LOTO are hot for offshore boats right now........kind of like S. FL in the 80's. Then noise restrictions, slower speeds were enacted, costs to insure/store those boats in S. FL got ridiculous and suddenly "go fast sightings" (outside of a poker run) have become like UFO's/Bigfoot sightings!

I was out on the ICW yesterday, area was having a boat parade that night so lots of boat traffic. Saw a really clean 24 Pantera (w/single Yamaha OB) and a 34 Sunsation CC.......that was it for performance boats.

ICDEDPPL 12-07-2014 12:46 PM


Originally Posted by Jupiter Sunsation (Post 4231319)
I was out on the ICW yesterday, area was having a boat parade that night so lots of boat traffic. Saw a really clean 24 Pantera (w/single Yamaha OB) and a 34 Sunsation CC.......that was it for performance boats.

Sounds like the Chicago boat show except without the Pantera and Sunsation lol

Pliant 12-07-2014 01:20 PM


Originally Posted by BUP (Post 4228610)
Read the current facts in post 39 about new boat sales. Wakeboard boats new, currently sell for 80k to 150 k for basically a 20 to a big 24 footer. Yes there is a few models bigger but the sales are not there for the bigger wakeboard boats over 24 / 25 ft. the market for these are 25 thru 50 years of age is the main buyer of these boats and I am talking brand new. Used WB boats is off the charts in sales..



http://www.fishcamphunthike.com/imag...urion-Surf.jpg

Count the body's in that tub..actually it's a very nice boat..Today that's the way they roll. After 40 yrs on the water ive seen many changes in habit's..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsYlU-fGx3M That vid pretty sum's up the game the party's still there it just changing.

state1310 12-07-2014 06:36 PM

all about the money . i got my first boat at 21 first fast boat at 26 i think . boats were high on my priority list though.

Flying Skunks 12-07-2014 07:21 PM

The boat parade here in Port Orange ( South of Daytona ) had No performance boats

Jupiter Sunsation 12-07-2014 07:32 PM


Originally Posted by Flying Skunks (Post 4231500)
The boat parade here in Port Orange ( South of Daytona ) had No performance boats

I had a house in Ormond Beach and never saw performance boats unless it was a holiday weekend or poker run!


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