For several high-performance powerboat builders, the 2020 Miami International Boat Show was the best it’s been since the event changed locations five years ago, https://www.offshoreonly.com/article...-show-of-force.

From the OSO home page.

Nice , That the 1% where able to fill the show , Offshore boats are dead to the average working stiff these day's

I am going to politely disagree with your premise.

When were twin-engine offshore boats ever alive for "the average working stiff?" Leading up to the recession of 2008, we saw a lot average working stiffs using home equity lines to finance $200,000 to $400,000 offshore boats. That didn't end up too well.

For the record, I can't afford one, either. But I don't resent those who can or those who build them.

I think it’s funny that we choose to only discuss center consoles from former sport boat manufacturers. If we’re gonna have CCsonly then I don’t see why we shouldn’t also discuss hydrasports, SeaVees and Yellowfins.

Now that fountain and Cig CCs are just as fat and wide as the rest, I don’t see a distinction anymore.

10-12 years later the average working stiff is buying those boats on the used market. If they weren’t built new, they aren’t available used.


My current boat in the booth at the Miami boat show in 2004

I agree . That 47 foot freeman cat CC is one bad ass fishing machine. If I was in the market ( and could afford it ) I’d much rather that than a cig CC or any other of the big v bottom cc’s

Not my cup of tea. Too ugly with bow angle and high freeboard. Fast though.

Precisely. Between 2008 and 2020, how many production-built (because custom go-fast V-bottoms and cats always have been and always will be out of reach for anyone who isn't well beyond the average Joe) V-bottom sportboats were actually built? Every dealer I know is on the prowl for such boats. The inventory simply doesn't exist.

Agree, but the average working stiff could get a Nordic 28, Pantera 28, Progression 28, et al for 60s and 70s all day long with reasonable power. That's gone today. $120 for a Nordic 28'? Really? Preposterous. The market is not what it used to be. One outing on Long Island Sound for me on a summer weekend just shows how few boats are on the water compared to a decade+ ago.

I don't RESENT any of them < I could afford one if I wanted , I just can't justify the cost for as little as I would use one these day's , and for the record I bought a brand new 35 gofast for way under 200 k about 11 or 12 years ago now that same boat is mid 300 k thats what im talking about