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2005 Bayliner 175 run about, should I buy?
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Garth Almgren
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Around 6/23/2005 4:06 PM,
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You may find a lot of the $875 in those two numbers.
Maybe if you are including sales tax, surely not just for registration.
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I have reason to suspect the OP may be from the Puget Sound area or
possibly CA.
I just today renewed the WA state tabs on "Indulgence" (all out boat
tabs expire June 30 each year). Just under $400.
One advantage to owning a 39-year-old 14': I'm sitting here looking at
my new orange tabs and a registration certificate that says $16.25.
It always gripes me
that documented boats have to pay the same tab fees as boats with state
titles, but it's easy to see why this is so when considering the
state's perspective. My boat is worth at least a little bit more than
the boat MR. Wizzard is considering- but still even the least expensive
boat carries a walloping tab tax around here. I can't imagine that a
trailer would license for much less than $75 or so.
Don't get me started on trailer tabs. I used to pay less than my boat's
fee for the trailer tabs (~$12 or so), and here comes our very own
horse's ass named Eyman with his $30 tabs. Great for people with
expensive cars, negligible for those of us with inexpensive cars,
horrible for anyone who uses public roads, and NO EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER
for those of us who /used/ to pay less than $30. "If it's got wheels and
is used on public roads," as the licensing agent explained. Even the
smallest of utility trailers would be charged the same. Now, the darn
*trailer tabs* costs me $38.75, so I'm paying more than double my boat's
tabs and more than triple what I used to, for a "vehicle" that only gets
used an average of a couple dozen times a year.
Yeah, it's still just chump change, but for the price to more than
triple? That's completely absurd.
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~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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