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| ritzyrags |
Posted on 10/03/13 - 12:44 PM
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Got me thinking today about what I would be personally feeling like when my Whaler is gone.
When I say gone I mean either that this gem has been sold, given away or passed on to chosen parties.
As a background,I have spent a good part of living days working on the water and never miss a chance to get back to the soothing ponds.
I think that having owned and enjoyed the Brand, and enjoyed working with the hulls, there will always be a special spot in there for me to go back to.
And Yes, this was me doubling back in my tracks to stop and look at the latest Whaler for sale or parked in transit.
What would you do after having sold the Whaler?
Well.. Look for another one of course.
Great Ladies and nice hulls will always turn my head.
What would you do if you were in those shoes?
There could be some fun generating thoughts in filling the survey..
Edited by ritzyrags on 10/03/13 - 12:47 PM
Dont lie
Dont Cheat
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| blacksmithdog |
Posted on 10/03/13 - 12:53 PM
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"Buy and sell Whalers for profit."
That's just funny. =8-)
My wife and I have this conversation every time we are selling a boat. It is something like:
Her - Why are you trying to sell it for only $10,000? You have $18,000 in it!!!
Me - Well, the market value of it is only $8,000.....
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| Joe Kriz |
Posted on 10/03/13 - 2:15 PM
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None of the above.
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| ritzyrags |
Posted on 10/03/13 - 2:17 PM
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Really???
Allright You Web browsers
It's time to cast your votes!
Can't believe that no one has ever thought of life after the boat's gone..
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| wading mark |
Posted on 10/03/13 - 2:21 PM
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if I could get rid of my redone 25 for close to what I have in it, I'd get a brand new 22 Guardian in a heartbeat. Having no boat is too painful to contemplate........
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| kamie |
Posted on 10/03/13 - 3:39 PM
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ROFLOL
1. sure, providing you can find clients who are willing to pay. You might of course have to branch out to repairing Grady's or other highend boats.
2. possibly doable, but your standards would have to lower or at some point you would need to quit adding up all the money you have into a boat repairing it
3. if your going to purchase a Grady White, much easier to become a Grady guru who used to own a Whaler but realized his mistake.
I vote to restore whalers because it's fun and you learn a lot but realize it will never make you a ton of cash.
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| Marko888 |
Posted on 10/03/13 - 5:38 PM
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As for life after a Whaler, why are there not some other, more relevant choices, such as:
1 - Spend less time cleaning, polishing, repairing, upgrading, and buying gasoline.
2 - Ride my motorcycles a lot more
3 - Try to figure out what to do with all of the money saved by not owning a boat!
4 - Buy a classic Porsche...conveniently taking care of #3
5 - Map the geographic locations of all friends with Whalers, and make plans to go visit them...and maybe do some fishing!
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| SeaLevel |
Posted on 10/04/13 - 3:20 AM
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I will be gone long before my Whaler
"It's just a forty eight year old Whaler but it's all mine"
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| flippa |
Posted on 10/04/13 - 9:18 AM
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SeaLevel wrote:
I will be gone long before my Whaler
I agree, there is no life without or after a whaler.
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| Binkie |
Posted on 11/26/13 - 8:10 PM
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I would probably buy a cheap tin boat and go fishing. I'm always working on a current Whaler and have no time to fish or even use any boat. Thing is I like it that way.
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| Silentpardner |
Posted on 11/26/13 - 9:15 PM
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I'm with Joe, none of the above.
I would just buy another one, of course:)
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| SeaLevel |
Posted on 11/27/13 - 4:33 AM
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I will be gone long before my Whaler
"It's just a forty eight year old Whaler but it's all mine"
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| wannabe |
Posted on 11/27/13 - 5:09 AM
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Joe Kriz wrote:
None of the above.
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Drew
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| rvschulz |
Posted on 11/27/13 - 8:09 AM
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this is my last boat - not going anywhere either
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| gary0319 |
Posted on 11/27/13 - 9:03 AM
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SeaLevel wrote:
I will be gone long before my Whaler
Yup!
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| jamesgt727 |
Posted on 11/28/13 - 7:33 AM
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Someone texted me these photos this morning to show you all that it is possible to professionally restore, and buy and sell for profit. Apparently, it just takes commitment to the process and a little bit of drive, but it is possible to do this activity as a business, because it is being done, these photos are from this morning. It's not my business, but I know them well.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/82ve59jt3af...6%20PM.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mybusszhab5...8%20PM.jpg
Down here, boats like this https://www.dropbox.com/s/tp4nscfnqz6...9%20AM.jpg are bought cheap, this one was purchased last Friday for $500. exactly as you see it.
As a side note, I got to see and touch this 13 this morning, and I am no professional, but, for the love of (insert) please stop painting these precious boats in a garage, this one the owner sold as "restored", the painted surfaces I have seen on these old classic boats do not hold up, at least in Florida. Painting is not restoring, (painting is painting).
I'll always have a Whaler.
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| jlh49 |
Posted on 11/28/13 - 10:01 AM
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I sold my 1979 22' Outrage purchased September 1979, in May 1988, and bought a 1988 Mako 231. I used the Mako for two years before selling it and purchasing the 1989 22' Outrage in May 1990, that I currently own. The two years without my Whaler were wrenching at times, mainly because the Mako was extremely wet in any crosswind, and just the overall satisfaction of the ownership of a Whaler over a Mako!
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| ritzyrags |
Posted on 11/28/13 - 12:37 PM
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There is absolutely no doubts that Florida has the Ideal temperature and consistent good weather to make boat building and repair a choice location.
Having said that,
I think that I would go picking and start buying and selling antiques and old marine stuff.
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| Larry H |
Posted on 12/11/13 - 5:02 AM
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Im saving to get a second smaller whaler.
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| Binkie |
Posted on 12/12/13 - 7:43 PM
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James, your comment (and I am no professional, but, for the love of (insert) please stop painting these precious boats in a garage) seems to me is an affront to the folks like myself and others on this site who love to work on and restore and customize our Whalers and we call ourselves amateurs becuase we are not doing it for money but only for the self satisfaction that comes from doing a job yourself that the average check writer could not comprehend. As far as making money doing this kind of work that is no secret. I've made money on every boat I've owned and I rebuilt or restored them all. The best I personally have done is when I restored a 1967 25 foot Bertram Bahia Mar back in 1980. I had 12k into the boat when I finished it, and I fished it hard for three years off Ft. Myers, and the sold it for 20k. And that was 1980 money. And BTW I personally painted the boat myself as I did on all my boats with AwlGrip, It takes a lot more skill to paint with polyurethane paint and the material is alot more expensive that a bucket of gelcoat and some sandpaper. The painted boats you looked at were most likely painted with house paint. There is a difference. Most of the really expensive yachts and sportfisherman are finished with AwlGrip. from the day they were first launched. There is no way you can get that Awlgripped look with gel coat.
http://www.awlgrip.com/about-us/sport...erman.aspx
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