MedDreamer
Active member
Some of you may remember my boatless mate from this years LBS. Well he is now progressing to serious consideration of boat buying and he went scouting at SIBS this past weekend.
The two boats he narrowed it down to were the Bayliner 275 (redesignated wide body 265) and the Doral 250 - both listed around £50K new and both easily accomodating him and his partner. He felt that with deals and discounts etc he could get a new boat but that it would be at the upper limit financially.
My suggestion to him was that he would be better off spending half of that amount on say a 5-6 year old Bayliner which he could afford with just a few judicious changes to his household budget. Don't think he would find the Doral for that price though (and he did express a preference for the Doral). This would mean that he would then be able to enjoy his boat without any great financial strain.
I feel he may be smitten with the idea of new though (and I would agree that they are both nice boats and that the Doral in particular is a lovely package).
What does the team think he should do. He does look in on here but doesn't know I was going to post this but as he the sort of person who does his homework thoroughly bedfore commiting to anything I am sure he would appreciate your comments.
Cheers
Martyn
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The two boats he narrowed it down to were the Bayliner 275 (redesignated wide body 265) and the Doral 250 - both listed around £50K new and both easily accomodating him and his partner. He felt that with deals and discounts etc he could get a new boat but that it would be at the upper limit financially.
My suggestion to him was that he would be better off spending half of that amount on say a 5-6 year old Bayliner which he could afford with just a few judicious changes to his household budget. Don't think he would find the Doral for that price though (and he did express a preference for the Doral). This would mean that he would then be able to enjoy his boat without any great financial strain.
I feel he may be smitten with the idea of new though (and I would agree that they are both nice boats and that the Doral in particular is a lovely package).
What does the team think he should do. He does look in on here but doesn't know I was going to post this but as he the sort of person who does his homework thoroughly bedfore commiting to anything I am sure he would appreciate your comments.
Cheers
Martyn
<hr width=100% size=1>Living the dream