Please help me guess how much my boat is worth

[FELLOW-SHIP]

Why is it that with many other items we (as humans) are willing to pay much more money than what that item is really worth, but with a “Classic” SeaCraft Boat were not willing to pay the extra $.
Examples 1. paintings, 2. antiques, 3. coins collections, 4. old baseball cards, 5 old comic books 6. old cars, and on and on and on. I think in all these fields “experts say” the reason why this old painting is worth $1,000,000 is because it’s a Rembrandt or something like that. Personally I think we need to start thinking not as a used car sales man and start thinking more like a art dealer expert looking as something Special which in fact is how the knowledgeable public really thinks about Classic Seacraft in the first place. I think its time (in my humble opinion) to stick out chest out in Pride and say “THIS IS NOT JUST ANOTHER BOAT THIS IS A CLASSIC SEACRAFT” and in 10 years from now this boat will we worth more than what you are going to pay for her today and that other boat you are looking at in 10 years from now will be ground down to powder and in some land fill around here. “We are the experts” and we got the best classic boats that ever has been made and our boats will still be on the water after we are all dead and our ashes sprinkled out at sea. Someone pass me a Budweiser.
Ha pipedreams I’m not picking on you but for me my boat has nothing to do “with the real world” it’s my dream boat and that’s the key with selling anything that is a Classic for more that the some total of the value of the materials in it. Ferrari sports cars learned this a long time ago and that’s why they get $150,000 to 250,000 per unit. Has anyone priced a Rolex watch lately?
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[mada]

FellowShip,

If you were a boat broker, I'd give you my 20 in a heartbeat.

I wept when I read your last post. Beautiful man...beautiful. (sob sob)

[PipeDreamsMarine]

Fellow-ship.. I no harm my friend. I believe the same thing. My Sea Craft is the best boat around and I plan on keeping it, cause it ain't worth much in the world of todays thin skined boats. But to me it's priceless. I just know what the real world thinks of 30 year old boats thats all. That's the main reason I fought tooth and nail to get my boat insured for what it would cost to replace it. I got too much time and blood in my boat to get a check for $500.00 from some insurance company because of some nonboating smuck in his Bayliner...where am I going with this...???? [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

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Ha Pipedream
My wife even thinks I am crazy in how I think about “THAT BOAT” she keeps on telling me when I die she is going to put me in the boat point it out to Sea and through a torch into the boat as I drift off to Valhalla. At first I objected to the loss of my boat, but now I am changing my mind. I now thinking that it is kind of a beautiful sendoff what do the think.
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[NAHIM]

Fellowship

You are in Cooper City, Perhaps you can come to Miramar so I can show you my 73" 20ft c.c. I'm here at Mercury Marine Latin America & Caribbean down the road from you. It is the sweetest Sea Craft you will ever see garonteeed.I need to post a picture of her for all you SC aficionados.

[ScottM]

I agree with PipeDreams on this one, but I also agree with FellowShip. Yes, the boats are considered priceless by us owners and borderline nut cases, but they are worth much less to the guy looking for just "any" used 20 CC. To get $15K for this boat, you'll have to find an SC lover. Anyone else is going to look to spend $7-10K. I'm willing to bet the Bertram 31 guys only get what they get for those boats because another Bertram nut knows what he's buying. You have to know what you're buying to know it's true worth/value, and therefore be ready to shell out the Benjamins.

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HA NAHIM
Sounds good to me maybe one Sat, or Sunday we can hook up together.
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[Mooncusser]

Fellow-ship's post was great (or should I say "classic") but the part he forgot to mention was depreciation and wear. Someone who buys a million dollar painting, collectable baseball card, antique car, etc. isn't gonna take those things 20 miles off the coast. When you buy "classic" anything and pay top-dollar for it, you don't usually continue using it.