Question about boat dealers
 

I just have one quick question. I normally surf all the big boat dealers to look at their inventories. I noticed today that two dealers have the same two boats for sale.

The two boats are the 46 Skater "Lick This" and the Hustler 444 Huntress "Color Us Gone". Both the Aqua Toy Store and Lake Cumberland Marine have them listed. Is it because the people who are trying to sell them brokered them at both dealers.

And why would they want to sell these awesome boats already. I mean what can you move up to after these.

Hey, Audio! Any ideas as to why Lick This would be for sale? :D

Maybe something about going about 70 with a 50 foot high roostertail and spinning out? I could have sworn that would indicate over trimming but I guess it was the skeg breaking off..... YA RIGHT:rolleyes: :rolleyes: Not so sure a skater is going to spin out at that speed. Looked ok when he left and had it running at similiar speed after the spin out.

Jon

I never have been in a boat that spun out. But I have wrecked 3 wheelers, 4 wheelers, skis pretty good. Might have scared me for a second, put I always hopped back on and tried again. Learn from your mistakes.

That boat is awesome. I know I wouldn't sell it after a mishap like that. I would just learn not to do whatever caused it again.

If it was the skeg. Freak sh%t happens.

Okay, before this thread goes tangent. How can two dealers have the same boat.

Maybe the owner didn't have an exclusive deal with the brokers. As a seller in a slumping used market why not increase your coverage if it doesn't cost you anything? I've seen a lot of boats that are listed in multiple places, the guy who makes the sale get's the $$$. As for Skaters, you'll find them listed in a lot of places and you'll also see them listed on skaterpowerboats.com with Scott Hledin

And why sell Lick This? Poker Runs America did a story on this boat, list price $1.3M No way this guy paid list price for the boat, it's just not happening. It's listed for $1.3M at Lake Cumberland. This guy is a genious, he buys a boat for somehting less then 1.3M, uses it all summer and could possibly find someone to buy it for more than he paid.

I see that TomCat is also forsale.

I've noticed that myself. In fact I just recently sent an e-mail to Randy Hartman at Lake Cumberland Marine about a 29 Fountain he has listed on his web site. I was gonna stop in during the weekend to look at it more closely. He called and told me it wasn't there at the moment. Well, I never got to see the boat or even try to make a deal on it. I guess that gives them more exposure when trying to sell.

Thanks Too Old


I was hoping to run down to Lake Cumberland Marine one of the next few weekends. They have a couple of Baja Hammers I wanted to look at. Then I was going to walk around and look at some of these boats. Guess not if they don't have them.

Make sure to call them first.

We stopped in at Lake Cumberland Marine on Thurs. before the Poker Run. What a GREAT place!!! They have a huge inventory!! The salesman gave us the grand tour we were very impressed! We got there about 10min. before closing time, he ended up staying with us for over an hour. I'm not sure you could find another collection of high performance boats like there's anywere?
Although 90% of there stuff is way out of my leage maybe some day.
In my opinion these are first class people with great place!!!
But it probably agood idea to call ahead to make sure they have what your looking for
:cool:

why would they sell the boats??? I would probably every year or two if I had that much money.

Do bothe dealers have the boat listed for the same price?

Rick 252: Thanks for the info. It is a 4-5 hour drive just to get there from Southern IN. I also want to hit Alton Blakely and look at some of the new Bajas.

Jb: I believe both sites had Lick This for 1.3M. I don't remember on the Hustler.

Boat Dealers
 

Lake Cumberland Marine had both the Lick This and the Hustler Huntress on thier lot last August as I was there buying another boat and got to look at both of these. Lake Cumberland is a great dealer.

For what its worth - the rumor I got last weekend at Havasu was that Lick This has been sold to a guy in Australia and the owner took a $400,000 haircut on the price.

Just a rumor, but the person is fairly reliable.

Check out beavboats, they might even have your boat for sale.:eek: :D http://www.yachtworld.com/beavboats/

Don't get me wrong. Lake Cumberland Marine is a great place and very helpful staff. Just call ahead to make sure the boat listed on there site is there.