re: Realistic annual cost of ownership of 32ft+ offshore center consoles?

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You will replace 1-3 pumps per year at $250 each

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It has six batteries. You’ll replace 1-2 each year on average.

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This seems excessive. We put 400-500 hours a year on our boat and batteries/pumps last us longer than a year.

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Roughly $500-1000/ year to keep the trailer rolling

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What the heck you doing to the trailer for 500-1k a year? Good lord.

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Detail it myself but still costs $500 in supplies per year

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Also what are detailing with for $500. Applying ceramic yourself every year? Or you must make a lot of trips and/or do a lot of full details.

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What the heck you doing to the trailer for 500-1k a year? Good lord.

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Trailers for large center consoles just always seem to constantly break. Not sure why, but they just do (unless you buy a $30k sport trail). Bearings, tires, hydraulic/electric brakes…

Probably doesn’t help that the roads in louisiana suck too

Boat trailers in louisiana are basically disposable wear items if you trailer everywhere.

As low as 12k as high as 20k. not including fuel.

If you budget 16k you'll be happy. Fuel is additional.
Having buddies to chip in when you take them fishing helps with the fuel for sure.

Once purchased, you are committed to using it and limiting yourself to a home base or geographic area to fish. Additionally, when you go to sell, you are gonna take that hit as well. I think you'll have to go 10 times a year to break even with a charter.

Add all that up and see how much a charter is without the hassle. Drive up, go fishing and go home. You aren't worried about weather, Hurricanes, broken shite etc.

Now if you got the cash to burn, Who GAF about costs.

I'd make sure you have a big umbrella policy that covers the boat and everything that boating entails. I'd also suggest having the same insurance company cover boat, cars (if you are towing), homeowners, and umbrella. The reason is this...
Punctuations in a policy ( . , : ;) and conjunctions like if, or, however, unless etc.. between multiple carriers can f you up.

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Additionally, when you go to sell, you are gonna take that hit as well.

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Eh, people always say this but it’s not necessarily true with larger center consoles these days. ALOT of people made money selling in the used boat market over the past few years. Just depends on the market at time of sale though. My buddy has made money on every boat he’s had, and we could sell the one we have now for way more than what we have in it.

Just depends on the boat/market. I do agree that you should plan on going in with the assumption you can’t sell it for what you paid though.

Oh yeah, if you don’t already have rods/reels/gaffs/tackle you can expect to easily spend $10k on that up front alone.

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Just depends on the market at time of sale though.

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I think the only people getting hit on boat resale of decent shape boats are buying fully rigged up to date brand new boats and not updating them.

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ALOT of people made money selling in the used boat market over the past few years.

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Correct. I made money when I sold my trip engine Fountain. We had owned that boat for 5 years. Understanding the market and how to rig these boats properly for blue water fishing is key. Self performing all maintenance and upgrades will save you a lot of $$$.

Finding the right seller/buyer is key as well.

Yup. With a lot of manufacturers having a 1-2+ year wait for a build slot, a slightly used/good condition 2-3 year old boat can sell for close to (in some cases even more than) what a brand new one costs. And the prices for the new boats go up every year, so most cases no loss.

Hell, last year early 2000’s contender 31 opens we’re going for $150k plus. 3 years ago you could pick one up for under $100k. Like I said all depends on the market