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Subject: Ideal boat....maybe

Author:
Jim Day

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Date Posted: 939887793PDT

There is a thread at Allcoast where everyones compairing private boats to going on pay trips. Steve M posted about his boat a 20 center console diesel, sounds pretty ideal to me. Heres the post:

I own a boat, but it's a small 20' Blackman diesel center console. Like Kid Creole recommends, I bought it used with only 700 hours on the repower from gas to diesel. I paid $14.5K when the sticker price on the engine and outdrive was $17.3K. Basically, I got the boat and trailer for free. Now I've thrown in about $6K for electronics and T-top, sold the old trailer and got a new baja proof one for a net $2,400. So all total I'm in it for $22K to $23K. If I ever sold it, I assume no one would pay me for the electronics, so I'd keep those.

My marginal cost to run the boat is minimal. Red dye diesel can be bought for $0.93. I get 4+ mpg and the most I've ever used in a single day of 140 miles was 30 gallons ($30!!!!!!). I can expect up to 10,000 hours out of the motor before a rebuild, but I'd be happy with 5000 (currently at 1124). At 10,000 hours, that's the equivalent of 5 outboard engines and 3 to 4 gas engines. Outdrives don't last as long, but I'm not pushing a lot of weight, so I expect that I'll get about double what people get out theirs pushing a 26' boat. I'm mobile and launch closest to where the fish are. I'm not going out on questionable weather days, but I don't think most go out and do well then anyways.

Sounds like my kind of boat, what do you think?

Tight lines Jim

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Ideal boat....maybe	hd	939930824PDT
Re: Ideal boat....maybe -- Jim Day, 939943892PDT Re: Ideal boat....maybe -- hd, 940907827PDT Re: Ideal boat....maybe -- Jim Day, 941194690PDT