"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:55:46 -0500, HK wrote:

There haven't been any real "Bertrams" for years, just boats made by
successive companies that bought the Bertram name before, during and
after manufacturing started and stopped...Whittaker, Bertram Trojan,
Feretti and others have owned the name.

There are lots of used ones from the 80s still going strong. They are
such great boats that it pays to do a refurb on them and bring them
back to like new. You can buy a used 46 for 200K or so, put 2 or 300
into a complete refit and still be way ahead of a new boat of
comparable quality.

The guy beside me at Kingman is doing exactly that in his 70's something 46'
Bert.
He looked around at new boats and realized it would cost him over a million
to replace what he had. He likes the hull so much that he's having Kingman
do a repower and complete renovation inside and out over the winter. He
figures it will run him about 200K.

I met the mechanic who will be doing the bulk of the work on the repower and
will also be coordinating the rest of the renovation. He's been maintaining
the owner's Bert for many years but started working at Kingman 2 years ago.
The Bert owner purposely brought the boat to Kingman for the work because
this particular mechanic was there.

Eisboch