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more power to ya if you can buy this



twin 250HP Suzukis.

Boats are crazy priced these days. I hear some are financing from 12-20 years.

NO

fuggin thank you

I gave mine to my son in law, glad it’s gone. They are crazy expensive to keep up.

I’ve been thinking about getting a small Jon boat 16 foot.Check the price on the manufacturers website when I call a dealer the price will be thousands of dollars more than the list price 50% plus more.!!

Little Pop-up Campers local; $23 - $27K , vehicles/boats/campers - crazy prices.

I commented that here that it was going to happen, utility trailers prices skyrocketed 3+ years ago. Quite a few places have 2022 trailers sitting faded on their Lots.
These business people who think they can keep marking things up because material & labor costs ++ are feeling it now.

I was in business for many years- when the economy slows -- news flash >>>you have to lower your prices ! ! !

I've got a 22 foot fiberglass pontoon boat- - - - -gave $1500 for it and the owner threw in a 16 foot runabout for free! Both of them with 80 HP Johnson 2 stroke outboards.

Ya I’ll stick with my canoe 🥴

It amazes me what folks will spend on a boat/camper that the only use a few times per year.

There's a marina around here that has 2 Bennington pontoons just over 300'000 each. One has twin 450 mercs and the other has a single merc 600 racing

I mean dayum yes

But that’s a big ass pontoon. 3 axels, 2 motors, and it’s NEW woo hoo, scalp the first schmuck with all of that depreciation

most around here are nothing like that behemothand only have 40-50 horse single motor

Pull em with a Ford Fkn Ranger yee yee!!!

Well, that's an extreme Pontoon, but most in that category would be Tri-toons. The fastest out of Cinci used to be a Tri with a 540 Chevy, but that's ben a decade or 2.

But as far as sticker shock,,,,, boats might be runaway in price as bad or worse than most toys. Just crazy. Like everything these days I guess.

Future algea harvester.

My Dad told me "Son, if its got tits, tires, or a propeller it will drive you to the poor house."

Can'y argue with his logic.

A 725t, reckon that’s 7ft wide and 25ft long with twin engines? Hard to tell from the pic.
169000…. Anyone pays that for that deserves to be royaly phuged.

My float tube was $100.

I torn on pulling the trigger on a $600 4 stroke air cooled outboard motor on Amazon.

Pretty slick little setup - no oil/gas mixing, its air cooled so no impeller nonsense and it has a gas tank on it (albeit not much larger than a gas tank on a leaf blower).

but its rated at 9hp.


That's the kind of boating financial decisions I'm dealing with

Reminds me of the “party barge” song.

Would have no use for that here.

My favorite nephew just bought a new pontoon, last years model, 22’, single 150hp motor, trailer, paid cash no loan. 71k
Crazy stuff.

Osky