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Why is the market so tight in California?
(I live just north of San Francisco.)
Demand greatly exceeds supply. Whalers are all made on the East Coast. Our climate leads to year round use instead of winterization and indoor storage in the off season, so the few older Whalers that do come up for sale often have cosmetic flaws. Freshwater boats are rare out here, and many have bottom paint.

It took me 2 years to find a Montauk nice enough to buy. Then after a year of searching for an 18 Outrage I gave up and bought a new Whaler.

Incidentally, that has been a 190 Montauk with a 115 HP Mercury on the San Francisco Craigslist off and on for a year. It is in Aptos, near Monterrey

For fun, I go to Craigslist every day and search for Whalers

JimL