Boat shopping has become frustrating....
04-20-2017, 08:15 AM
#191
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i quit hanging out with "land people" long ago and all my friends have boats . . . . you just need different friends
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Throttles- Cleveland Construction 377 Talon
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08 OPA High Points Champion
10 OPA Class 1 National Champion ( happy now Ed! )
04-20-2017, 08:21 AM
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Word is lemmings. Gen X-ers and Millenials aren't the wrenching types that the Boomers were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOs8MaR1YM
04-20-2017, 08:29 AM
#193
wait . . . which ones are the lemmings again? . . . us or them 
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Throttles- Cleveland Construction 377 Talon
08 OPA Class 1 National Champion
08 Class 1 Geico Triple Crown Champion
08 OPA High Points Champion
10 OPA Class 1 National Champion ( happy now Ed! )
Throttles- Cleveland Construction 377 Talon
08 OPA Class 1 National Champion
08 Class 1 Geico Triple Crown Champion
08 OPA High Points Champion
10 OPA Class 1 National Champion ( happy now Ed! )
I am confused. Is being a lemming a bad thing if we are having fun?
04-20-2017, 09:11 AM
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I've been working, that's for damn sure. I finished a transom, stringer and sole job late last summer. Every piece of wood in my boat is new now, and glassed in with epoxy resin and 1800 bi-ax. I'm ready to enjoy a little bit of summertime as I chip away at the trim work still to be done.
It might be completely possible I'm wishfully thinking in my predictions. With prices where they are, I don't see myself in the market for a used performance boat. Right now, my best shot would be to rebuild a rotten hull, but that's not inexpensive either.
It might be completely possible I'm wishfully thinking in my predictions. With prices where they are, I don't see myself in the market for a used performance boat. Right now, my best shot would be to rebuild a rotten hull, but that's not inexpensive either.
04-20-2017, 01:10 PM
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Interesting thread.
I've heard the argument that lack of new boats in the market has inflated the prices of used boats. That's fair, I suppose. What if we looked at it from the other side of the equation, the demand side. Right now there are a population of performance boat enthusiasts, but that population is aging. I'm 35, and I have only one friend my age who owns a go-fast boat. My other friends don't have the interest in mechanical things to keep a performance boat going.
I foresee a significant drop in demand for these used boats as the enthusiasts age out of the market. I foresee the same thing happening to classic cars. Gen X-ers and Millenials aren't the wrenching types that the Boomers were.
I've heard the argument that lack of new boats in the market has inflated the prices of used boats. That's fair, I suppose. What if we looked at it from the other side of the equation, the demand side. Right now there are a population of performance boat enthusiasts, but that population is aging. I'm 35, and I have only one friend my age who owns a go-fast boat. My other friends don't have the interest in mechanical things to keep a performance boat going.
I foresee a significant drop in demand for these used boats as the enthusiasts age out of the market. I foresee the same thing happening to classic cars. Gen X-ers and Millenials aren't the wrenching types that the Boomers were.
04-20-2017, 02:15 PM
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I'm 35 and on my 6th cat. My buddies same age range (42 Fountain lightning, 36 nortech, 27 fountain, 46 skater, etc) Get off OSO and work your ass off.
I built my boat with my own two hands and do a lot of poker runs far from home. I'll never buy a fishing boat and I'll never let another guy work on my boat since my experience with Derreberry about 10 years ago.
Not all young people are weak.
I built my boat with my own two hands and do a lot of poker runs far from home. I'll never buy a fishing boat and I'll never let another guy work on my boat since my experience with Derreberry about 10 years ago.
Not all young people are weak.
04-20-2017, 02:21 PM
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