IMMACULATE 450DA NOW FOR SALE

All's Well said:
Very good for you on the sale Frank and sounds like a knowledgeable buyer is waiting to enjoy a well cared for vessel. Hope that this doesn't mean the end of your participation here as you've been a fantastic source of knowledge without the drama that can accompany opinions from time to time.
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I'm not going anywhere. We are just taking a breather from boating at this level for a while. Those who post incorrect information or dangerous methods on CSR will hear from me............
 
Very happy for you!!! Depending on where my daughter takes her newly minted PhD next year, Panama City area is getting discussed as a new part time location. Again very happy for you and THANKS for all the help through the years. JC
 
Congratulations!

I'll be going the FSBO route in about 30 days. Probably only do boattrader.com and CSR and not mess with FB and CL. I've sold direct before and while it's a pain if you end up selling the boat it's nice to save the 10% brokerage fee.

Since the boat is 75 miles from my house I plan to schedule 'open house' showings and hang out up there a couple of days at time. Well, that's the theory. We'll see.

Enjoy your next chapter.
 
Congratulations Frank!
 
Congratulations Frank !! wish it could have been me, Boats like yours don't come around very often in ones lifetime, if I had got mine sold you would have heard from me...when I get my Diesels I'll be talking to you i'm sure...Good Luck to you and the Family........
 
I’m sure you will miss her but it must be a relief to have the weight of selling the 450 off your shoulders.

Congratulations.
 
fwebster said:
SOLD!.........

We closed the sale of our 450DA last week to a local couple. We decided to sell her ourselves rather than to use a local broker, so I ran ads on Boat trader, Facebook (a waste for this type of boat in this price range) and on CSR. We had no problems getting the phone to ring, in fact, properly following up on leads turned into nearly a full time job. Going the FSBO route was trying but worth doing financially and because I got to meet a number of very nice folks, who for one reason or another couldn't pull the trigger.

The new owner is a fascinating family who have become good friends thru this process. He is an Italian who has become a US citizen who married a Southern girl and moved to Panama City Beach. He is a seasoned maritime captain in Venice, Italy. Until Covid essentially shut down their entire Country, The buyer runs 75 ft + tour boats (300+ passengers) in Venice during their tourist season. It was a real pleasure working with a buyer with his level of understanding boats and their systems.

The boat was surveyed buy a hull and a mechanical surveyor simultaneously. The hull surveyor found no moisture in the hull or deck and his only negative finding was a "bad GFI"......we later found that the test button was just stuck behind the cover plate. The mechanical surveyor took oil samples, transmission fluid samples and coolant samples, all of which the Cat labs found clean and "no problems with this sample; continue sampling at normal interval." After a 2 hour sea trial the surveyor found all temperature readings and engine performance to be normal and told the buyer "If you want a 45 ft Sea Ray, buy this one; it is mechanically perfect."

Thank all of you who participated in this thread. It is interesting that a lot of the prospects we talked to were following the discussions here. When I get caught up a bit, I'll post a thread on the For Sale By Owner process



Frank
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Congrats Frank!
 
A late congrats to you sir. I recently sold my MUCH smaller boat on Boatrader/Boats.com. Took all of one day. Sellers market for sure. Glad your sticking around! Best wishes, Brian
 
Our marina had 3 storage buildings condemned after Hurricane Michael. After a year long battle with their insurance carrier, they have now demolished the condemned buildings and started construction on a new 700 boat dry stack barn. First is removing 100's of square feet of 5-7 inch thick concrete and milling it on sight in the middle of about 100 customer's boats in wet slips. I've tolerated 3 previous major construction projects and was able to keep a very nice boat well, very nice, but at a ridiculous cost.

There are no slips available in town as 4 or 7 marinas were destroyed by Michael. That affects slip rental prices but I'be been here for 30 years and have a lot of friends in management and among the staff, so I can get a slip when we are ready to come back.

Add to that the fact that there are very few nice, well maintained used boats available these days.

I am not up for another construction project so I think we will sit out the summer and start looking again after this construction fiasco is over maybe in the Fall.
 
So Frank, when these buildings were destroyed (and I assume boats in them) what happens to those boats? Are there part guys out there selling things off like a Craiglist type? Or, do you know anyone selling parts?
 
The amazing thing about Hurricane Michael was that there was an insurance claim filed on only 2 boats out of 650 in storage at our marina. One of those had the canvas shredded and the other fell off the blocks it was sitting on. Both were minor claims. The guys at the marina really took great care of the customer owned boats.......our 450DA was on stands and blocks in the forklift access way in the center of newer dry stack building built to the Miami hurricane code that mandated new construction be built to 160 mph wind load standards.......the 16 big boats in that building didn't even get rained on. The long and short of it is there were no boats totaled or liquidated at our place.

The buildings that were condemned were 1983-ish and had been beat up by several storms and tornados over the years. One was the mechanics shop, another was used to store PWC's, inflatables and forklifts. The service department put all the boats that were in the shop back in their spots in the 160mph barn as were the PWC's and dinghies......no customer's boats other than the 2 mentioned above were damaged. The reason it has taken since October, 2018 to get the planned construction underway because the marina owner and his insurer were playing hard ball as the owner wants the adjustors to cover all the new construction costs and the insurer maintained the building were in a state of neglect which is why they were condemned. They finally worked thru their differences and reached a settlement.

The marina next door, however, had a lot of damage to customers boats and several hundred were totaled mostly because they did very little to prepare for the storm or to care for their customer's boats. Insurance adjustors were inspecting them and writing checks on the spot for those totaled. The adjustors were meeting with insured for about 6 weeks and the major carriers engaged a salvage company to liquidate the totals . They leased a 30 acre field 15 miles north of town to hold the pre- auction inspections and bidding. The whole liquidation and removal process was over in about 3 weeks. There is no sign of the hurricane and no salvage yard or flea market of odd boat parts anywhere on the coast, but keep in mind that the hurricane did its damage in October of 2018 and all the boats were liquidated and gone by December of 2018.
 
Has anyone found a potential cockpit sink replacement for our model years ? I would really like to find a SS option for the sink.
 
Frank, now I know why it took so long to sell your boat - You were letting someone else do it. Glad you took the process over. Only you can present the sincere reality of love and care you gave to your 450. Also glad to hear a real captain has purchased your boat - he will appreciate how well you maintained her.

Congratulations Frank!!!
 
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