Quote Originally Posted by kygorski View Post
On a whim, several years agoI priced a nitro.I could afford it. the guy actually proved it. 170 payments. I could even have had it with 20yrs of finance. No way.I would have been over 83 yrsw old when it was mine. WOW living on generic alpo just didn't seem right.
every man does his own thing, some will pay the new price. mostly very young guys. I bought a new boat when i was a young guy. sometimes the payment was tough to make. I kept it a long time. and enjoyed it, but wished many times i hadn't bought it. last year i got to wanting another, and looked at some new ones. but i didn't want one bad enough to go through that again. looked on craigslist for three or four months. found a 2005 nitro that an older guy had bought new at the louisville boat show. the garage he kept it in had 2 inches clearance from rubbing the finders. him and his fishing buddy had to put it in his garage by hand. so it was so much trouble, he left it parked and fished with his friend. it was 4 years old, and had 17 hours on it. I bought it for 1/2 the price his paper work showed he payed for it at the louisville boat show. so something to think about. buy a good used boat, and have more money to spend on gas and lures. their are good deals out their, just go slow while searching. you'll find it.