Speaking of new, has your new baby showed up yet.

As I recall only about 8000 fiberglass bass boats are sold across the country annually. Not a lot of guys are actually shelling out 75K for new boats.

Also, on the buy v. rent math on homes. It's far more complicated than that steeze. The math is going to very wildly by region and the particulars of an individuals circumstance. It might have worked out great for you, but those are your loto numbers. Ton's of chance in any type of investing you do. Rentals can be great, or you can pay too much for a money pit or worse yet bad tenants. Buying can be a much better option if you are in a high rent area and require a sizable home (kids etc...) especially given where interest rates are right now. There is no universal answer, it just depends.

No, I think they pulled it out of the mold last week, probably be 3-4 weeks, too damn hot to fish anyway.

Maybe we need to start high school Corvette driving tournaments so we can market really expensive big boy toys to teenagers. That ought to help drive up the price. Dads all over Texas will be buying Vettes for themselves so they can take their kids out, or maybe just for the kids themselves.

What forward thinking manufacturer wouldn't sponsor that?

Or family members... Currently trying to work through all of my Mother in Laws debts, it is not fun!

It was sarcasm

Because the industry is playing off the fisherman's ego (and yes it is a real thing). Alot of younger kids have grown up thinking they have to look a certain way and act a certain way. They are playing off the "you can't catch fish unless you have _____". As long as people keep selling the farm, prices will continue to rise.

I bought my last new boat about 9 years ago. I can't afford to do it again. This one will have to last till I die.

Just depends on what you can afford. And then think about how much more money we all spend on fishing aside form a boat.. Not many people making more money than what's being spent fishing lol

A guy could just live on eggs, taters, beans, bread, and water, no steaks or shrimp, no going out to eat, no beer, none of the good stuff is necessary, then you have us dumb guys, we like new boats, new trucks, steak, lobster, lots of beer.

Give me 44k to invest and I’d more than quadruple that amount in 10 years. $200k. Not 32 years. You lost $400,000....almost half a MILLION dollars.... by tying up that money for 32 years.


Think about what that house COST you for 30 years of paying on it. Yeh. It’s paid for. No small feat for sure. But, so is all the interest, and 30 years worth of upkeep. You’re probably really on the good side about $50k. Maybe. Likely much less. If you’d have bought it, immediately put it up for rent, bought another, one year later put it up for rent, rinse repeat, for 32 years!!!! Oh my!!! You’d own a fleet of paid for in cash Vexus boats and have so much income you’d be inviting Johnny Morris to take a back seat on Saturday.


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No sir! You can't quadruple money for folks in 10 years. Come on . Your telling us that you are able to do what the greatest hedge fund managers in history have been unable to do. You are telling us that you are 3 to 4 times better then Warren Buffet! Money doubles every 10 years at 7.2%. So you are promising us double digits returns for 10 years? If that were the case you would not be on the forum. You would have a line of the wealthiest individuals on the planet waiting to do business with you.

Boat is a keep and hold item. Bought my 1997 Triton new in 1997 for $13k. Still runs just as good now as it does then. Has a better TM and better graphs, but anyone buying a new boat loses more in the first 12 months than I've lost in 22 years of owning the Triton.

I am lost lol. Only on the tff can you be convinced by someone that buying a house is a bad investment and you should rent