I didn't think much about this last year when my son and his wife sold
the boat she had bought new in 2001, but they told me the details
today.
I never saw the boat.
Since Tom is a boat trader of the highest order, Chuck is always
interested in most boating matters, and Harry has some kind of passion
about Bayliners, I'm throwing this out there.

2001 Bayliner 2455 Sierra
350 Magnum engine, a/c, dual props
She paid 50k for it new in 2001.
Nada when they sold it in August, 2006 was hi/lo 32-25.

The kids were paying about 5k a year for dock, winter
storage/maintenance, insurance, whatever.
Diversey Harbor, Chicago.
Boat was mint.
Engine had 15 hours! Hard to imagine.
My son called it "the floating condo."
Everything was in mint condition.
New bottom paint that year.
Electronics was really just depthfinder and stereo.
Like they needed navigation stuff for those 15 hours.

Anyway, they sold their house in the city and moved to the 'burbs, and
now were about to have my second grandkid.
No use for the boat at all. That was done with.
They put it in boattrader asking 28k, and didn't even get a call for 2
weeks. Started to worry about that.
First guy who calls offers 22k, son counters 25k, they settle on 24k,
unseen. Check is in the mail.
Four more calls come in the same day, but son tells them it's sold.
Check arrives a couple days later for the full 24k, and it clears.
No face-to-face until 2 weeks after the initial call, when they go
down to the harbor and haul it out and sign over the title.
No survey or anything, the buyer just looked it over and is happy.
So were the kids.
Turns out the buyer is a Sydney Aussie working in Indiana doing some
kind of coaching. On the side he ships boats to the Oz market.
Told my son he would make about 10k on this deal.
All in all a very good transaction for everybody.
I just wonder if Skipper is in Australia now.

--Vic