Quote Originally Posted by Guppydriver View Post
I think you are right Dank. I think the used market might be soon saturated with lightly used quality boats. I just think a lot of people spent their 10K they normally use for annual and semi annual vacations on down payments without really knowing if "the boat thing" is for them.

Eventually, they are going to realize that the cost and care of running, storing and maintaining the boat exceeds what they had anticipated. Plus, the payments get a little harder to swallow when there is snow on the ground and the boat is taking up your garage space or storage unit.

I know I will probably take a good beating by ordering a new boat this year, but the cost and availability of quality used boats out there this year made the cost delta marginal between the two. All the meticulous, lightly used premium brands in my area were north of 120K. It would have made financial sense for me to hold off and wait for a market adjustment , but my family has a only a few years left all together under the same roof and not missing the memories we will create in the next year or two helps to offset any loss to market adjustment.

We are in the same boat. Our current boat is a I/O that is 16 years old. We missed the window before COVID but my kids are only getting older so I either bite the bullet now and get a new boat or wait a couple years and get one but miss out on memories with the kids. I only have 3 more summers with my oldest. The used market now is garbage so we are going new. Got a moomba max with a build date in March. We were looking used at first but that market is toast now.