Loved the 270 SunDeck but it's time to sell (I think)

Seriously considering selling my 270 SunDeck with 496. Love the boat but really have zero time to use the boat. Nothing worse than owning a boat and juts having it sit...

Do you guys go through the same thoughts or do you use your boats often?

Yep. That's why I sold my 300DA when I lived in Jersey. Not getting enough use, especially with the relatively short season. I felt extremely guilty if I couldn't get down to the boat at least once a week. Sometimes I'd go a whole month because of work and/or weather and not even use it! Just didn't make sense. But then again, when does it when it comes to boats? Did something change for you to re-evaluate it? Kids grown, job, etc? Good luck with your decision but judging by your signature profile....you will be back.... just like me.

SeaNile said:

Seriously considering selling my 270 SunDeck with 496. Love the boat but really have zero time to use the boat. Nothing worse than owning a boat and juts having it sit...

Do you guys go through the same thoughts or do you use your boats often?

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Have you though of moving?

My wife was very ill last year and the boat was out of the slip one time. We are boaters so we just moved up... We love boating and I am two years from retirement. I plan on spending as much time as I can once the opportunity presents itself. Have you considered changing your boat to see if you would use it more? I know all about life and work getting in the way believe me. We are on boat number 7 in almost 36 years of boating...

Seanisle and WV.... I was in the same situation....not with an ill wife or non use but Kids went to college (3 at the same time) and they hated the boat a 260 Sundeck at the time... I sold it and bought a pontoon by mistake at the Chicago boat show that winter. The idea was no wax..hose down the whole thing and leave it on the lift year around... Use it to go to lunch with my wife or hang out in a cove. That lasted one year sold it and bought our current boat and put it on a Great Lake instead of an inland lake in Indiana.....kids now are up every weekend they can... We love it like a second home.. Things change ...find something you might like and change how you boat... And if that doesn't work change again.

I have always said I would sell the boat if I didn't use it regularly. Last year usage was down but that was due to the unprecedented rain we had. I expect this year we will be out every nice weekend and many nice days during the week.

When I was 54 my company closed my office and moved it down south. I lived in a house that was custom built for my boat, and the launch ramp was 2 miles away. The new office location would have put me hours away from a ramp, and even then it would have been salt water.

Faced with the dilemma, I figured there was only one reasonable thing to do, since regular boating would not have been happening. Also, trying to find a good job at my age was not going to be easy.

I quit my job.

I did some consulting and it took years to get back up to my previous salary. But I went boating every week in the interim.

It's all about priorities.

I agree ..change your boating. We had a Bayliner 245 that we never used because we hated it. I would take it out fishing occasionally, but my wife couldn’t stand being on it. Just too many bad experiences. Sold it and bought the 340 and now we use it virtually every weekend ..not to mention summer vacations are now boating vacations. (150 hrs last season) It’s the perfect boat for us and we can’t get enough.

M Prod said:

I agree ..change your boating. We had a Bayliner 245 that we never used because we hated it. I would take it out fishing occasionally, but my wife couldn’t stand being on it. Just too many bad experiences. Sold it and bought the 340 and now we use it virtually every weekend ..not to mention summer vacations are now boating vacations. (150 hrs last season) It’s the perfect boat for us and we can’t get enough.

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That is impressive considering where you live...hats off to you sir...

I think this is part of the ebb and flow of boating for those of us who have water in our veins. Situations change, kids/grandkids grow up or lose interest, you get older, it gets harder to maintain because of your knees, back, __fill in the blank____, health problems, etc. All of that has happened to us in one form or another. However, one thing in our lives has remained a constant........the boat and love of being out on the water. My wife took a serious fall on a boat that required shoulder surgery and 16 weeks of re-hab 3 years ago at about the same time our grandkids reached the stage that is wasn't cool to be with your parents/grandparents. We couldn't and nobody else wanted to go to Florida. I considered selling the boat, but I could never replace it with another one in anywhere near the same condition for the money I could get out of mine. So, we just hung on a dealt with a couple of years of low useage and higher overhead costs since we had to have the marina do occasional washing and detailing. Now, my daughter is heavy into paddle boarding, the grandkids are in college and my son and his wife are almost empty nesters and he is constantly looking for cheap flights to Panama City Beach on Southwest. Life and boating has about entered another phase....the boat? Still in the same slip and still rewarding us with wonderful days on the water.

My advice is to decide if you have water in your veins like me, then take a long term view before selling a perfectly good boat.

SeaNile said:

Seriously considering selling my 270 SunDeck with 496. Love the boat but really have zero time to use the boat. Nothing worse than owning a boat and juts having it sit...

Do you guys go through the same thoughts or do you use your boats often?

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If you’re seriously thinking of selling...let me know. I was looking at an ‘06 270 with the 496. Have you enjoyed the boat (when you are on it!)? I’ve been wanting to get back into boating for years and now the youngest are old enough, and the oldest won’t be young enough for long. I feel like I’m going to miss prime boating years. But we’re busy too and what not and I wonder if I’d fall into the same “don’t use it enough” hole. I tell myself I could just sell it...but then I k ow I would miss it!
Ahh...life