On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:13:11 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:02:30 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

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.

That's the way I've been thinking lately after seeing a '47 Post that
was refurbished.

I've seen a couple of insurance boats that would make good candidates
for this approach.

Little too old.

I looked at the reply and said - what?

Then I realised - whoops. I meant 47' Post.

Er...sorry.

My whole problem is that I'm vacillating between just buying another
Contender and getting something I would use rather than something "we"
would use and go through the whole renovation process with something
like a Post or Bertram or whatever and never use it.

Mrs. Wave is not a "boater" - she's been on the Ranger exactly four
times since I bought it and when I had the Contenders, the only time
she would step foot on them was when I was taking her and her gal pals
to Martha's or Block for the day or take them for a ride around
Mystic, Point Judith or evening cruises here and there. She could
care less about cruising unless its aboard one of the mega cruise line
boats which holds NO appeal to me in any sense of the word. She liked
Wayne's and Mrs. B's GB, but the first thing she said to me was that
while it was very nice boat, she would feel too confined for any long
duration.

So that's the conundrum. Mrs. Wave is being more than accomodating
with whatever I do decide on, but I'm going nuts not having something
with some reach beyond the environs of near shore fishing and running.

I should never have sold my Fisharound - that was a mistake.

Speaking of Post boats, there is a make of boat that Posts are often
mistaken for - starts with a Y. Know what that is? I can't remember.