Go to your local state park and rent a 20’ pontoon boat for $300 for 8 hours. With the weather, family obligations, and work I likely would not get on the water 8 to 10 tomes a year I can rent for 20 years and still be less than $50,000 and never have the cost of upkeep and repairs. BOAT ( Bring Out Another Thousand ) every year like clockwork there ends up being 2k to 4k in extra costs with every boat I have owned. Good luck!
Very nice boats ,but take eight people out that is 7 that will forget gas and bait money . Will stick with my 1967 Sea King its paid for and not eating anything .
Like that black dual helm but, the price is scary. Nice to be able to get out of the weather if you need to, hard to beat that option. Thanks for the boat show.
@@christopherb3802 I live in Baldwin County on the Eastern Shore of the Mobile Bay. Very common to see at $300,000 fishing boat being pulled behind a $100,000 pick-up truck. I always wonder how in the world they are paying for it and the insurance, fuel and upkeep!
I am currently looking at a 15 ft Whaler for here in South Florida, so I like that Mako skiff - last boat I bought was in 88 and got rid of it about 4 years ago before all hell broke loose, and everyone wanted a boat -
I'm getting old when ATVs and fishing boat prices are equal to or greater than a used pickup ($35-$40k). We all have our boundaries, I won't spend more than $50k on a truck, nor $30k for a boat used weekends 4 months a year (Minnesota), both dropping in value with age alone. Unlike me
They are high priced because those are all welded with a full V, not riveted, full aluminum trailer with upgraded wheels & it ready to go out. I believe even life vest are included. Oh and also because the motors have gone way up in price. If you’ve been out in waves or even heavy chop with a boat that has only V in the front but the bottom is flat, it beats you to death. Full V helps cut the waves for a much better ride! That also have plenty of floatation when it will not sink to the bottom if it get full of water. Down south, we call it a Gill bracket, not extended transom & to have have that added to an existing boat costs about $8 to 10k )depending is the size boat) to build & weld on.
I have a ProXS 115 on my 19ft. It runs at higher RPMs than teh standard 4 Stroke so I guess it is like having a little mopre horspower. I have had mine since 2017 and love it. Not a single issue so far.
You lost me after the Spartan boats. Those boats would be great for scuba diving. Has plenty of floor space for gear, not cluttered with seating. Like the enclosed cabin. Only negative I can see is the aluminum is so hot in the summer. Great video.
With all those ally boats the first thing you do is remove those 'steel' side rails. At least one of those boats appears to have had its first encounter with the side rail. Better install some polyurethane auto guide rails down at the 1st keel roller at the back of the trailer.
@@northwesthotspots6309 I got a 1983 Tiderunner Runabout/Cuddy Cabin. It's a limited edition, one of only seven ever built. It's getting repowered now and in a couple weeks I'm going to be out on the water!
The prices are nuts....considering I can offshore fish on a comfortable head - party boat for under $50 for a half day. I can do that every day, all season and still not come close to the payments of one of those. Heck I built my own 16 foot skiff for under $1000, and stuck a nice used outboard on it for even less.
Amazing the prices are through the roof and the Willamete River springers are extinct. The Columbia salmon and steelhead runs are next. Apparently these boat manufacturers think the way to recover fish runs is by building ridiculously priced boats. Makes perfect sense….
Thunderjet builds these boats. Thunderjet was bought by Brunswick several years ago. These are maide exclusive for Cabelas/Bass pro. Same reason they all have Mercury motors it'd all Brunswick. I would look at Raider boats before these.
@@northwesthotspots6309 there is also Allied boats in Bremerton, Duckworth/Weldcraft in eastern WA as well. That is also where Raider boats is located.
Can take a Market place boat and dump $20k into it have a much more comfy, reliable and fuel efficient boat. 36 foot party hut/party barge can be found for $12k or 38+ foot Carver or Bayliner with and Aft Cabin for under $20k
@@northwesthotspots6309 can swap those old low compression inboard gas engines for modern TDI 4 and 6 cylinder inlines for double the power, reliability and fuel mileage. All for 1/4 the price of one of these boats. Couldn't imagine paying $60-$70k for a boat that cost $16k to produce and a $20-$30k engine.
@@northwesthotspots6309 can get more power, range and reliability with a newer 4cyl or 6cyl tdi engine in the place of a 4cyl/8cyl GM/Ford based mercruiser.
I did enjoy the video as to but the boat you picked has no gear on it , pole holders down riggers and the most costly is the navigation and fish finding systems! There’s another 5000 ?
If you don’t know the difference between a Ranger walleye boat and a bass boat or what a Merc pro xs is it might be a good idea to have a salesman describe the boats and explain why the cost to build aluminum boats are so high and look into the resale value of tahoe boats.
A lot of the comments here are about the ridiculous prices. This is NOT a new phenomenon ! Been going on for a few decades or more. I'm into Bass fishing, so Bass Boats & Aluminum V's are what I'll look at. Yrs ago, the Ol joke about a Southern Bass Fisherman, pulling a $40K Bass Boat with a $500 F 150 ! True Stuff! How do these manufactures expect your average fisherman to afford this stuff ?! 12 yr + loans ! Maybe the area I'm in, but I don't see to many guys on the water with $250K / yr + salary's wettin a line. Several yrs ago started looking at 16' Alum V hulls with a 25 hp tiller, bass boat I had was getting to be just too much for me,,,,,,,, 16K-18K for a stripped down boat!!!??? Not just the boats either ! $$$ for a nice rod & reel. A Spinnerbait I used to pay maybe $3 for yrs ago is now $15. Won't be long I'll be floating with my butt in a inner tube, hanging onto a 10' cane pole.
@@rickstephan6707 I.D.K. ? 30+ yrs ago when I tried getting my kids to use one off the pier, They thought I was kidding, and never used. More fun to watch a $20 Snoopy rig bounce into the drink when a Northern or ? would snatch the blue gill they just caught.
In 5 years them boats aren't worth half that sticker price.. I bought a 1992 Sea Ray Sundancer 270 with twin 305's, 4 canon digit-troll down riggers, Lowrance HDS 10, 15 st Corix polls with line counter reels, Plainer Boards boxes of lures and flashers. the boat sleeps 5, Kitchen, bath room shower ac and heat on the Ashtabula River lake Erie for 5k.. Keep looking they're out there.
@@northwesthotspots6309 2004 was when banks would give anyone a home loan and house prices quadrupled and people started foreclosing imediatly after but all of society had a new lifestyle of spend and forgett your mistakes, now everyone feels valuable.
Only sold at NW Cabela's. They sell trackers where they sell and nitros where they sell. Market determines what sells where. U would buy these in Kansas
Not sure. I think they don’t sell good down there because people like center consoles because of the sunny weather. Florida is like that. Center consoles are huge down there. Aluminum don’t sell good down there.
@jamespierson9312 it's actually called galvanic corrosion & if you do not wash it down along with flushing out your outboard motor then your boat gets destroyed
@@BBBYpsi And that is what zink anodes are for. I have lots of friends that leave their aluminum boats in the water at Friday Harbor year round. They take them out and clean them once a year and inspect/replace the anodes if needed. Their boats have been in the water for over 20 years.
