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Posible more boat sales and growth for 2017.

http://boatingindustry.com/news/2016...xz-wakesetter/

PARASAIL941

Wakeboard boat manufacturers have to love profit margins. A 350 Mag Towsports with B/W trans is half the cost of same eng w/ Alpha or Bravo pkg. The rest of the driveline ( coupler , shaft log ,shaft , strut , rudder) run about 10% - 15% cost of I/O. Actually pretty reasonable for power.

1989mach1

Millionaires buy new boats we all buy there used boats that's just the way it is and if killary gets in office they wont be buying many new boats and we will have are old boats so I wouldn't be selling any time soon..lol

1989mach1

Fountain and donzi where at the top of the game and as fast as they could make them they were selling new brand new and the slightly above average Joe could afford one... not any more and look where they are now. Our old 27' 89 concord mach1 was bought new in 1990 for around 25k if I remember correctly single 454. If they made a boat simular to that for even 50k there would be a lot more people getting into our sport/lifestyle

1989mach1

That boat is still running and on the water every weekend now owned by my brother. Been in the family sense the first day it got wet.

1989mach1

Soon to be up for sale and I might have to buy it back for my son to have as his first boat when he turns 16 only five years away i better start planning now lol

79formula

I have the sales literature for my 86 242. In 86 with a 260/alpha it was 57k new msrp. In 1986 a new corvette was 27k. A new boat in 86 was 2 corvettes. I think it would probably still be two corvettes today

79formula

I will say by the time my 65yr old uncles were my age (32), they each owned several corvettes. Myself and them are both blue collar workers. I have yet to own a vette. They had boats too. Yup this economy is awesome.

SB

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That was MSRP.

Selling prices for 26-28ft boats with a 502MPI / Bravo where 60k-75k in 1996-1998. High side of this was Donzi 28ZX for near $80k.

Baja 33 w/twin 502's was $110-$130 depending on options.

SB

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BTW: Many of us made more $$$ in the 90's then now. So believe it when you here the Trump people talking about it.