UkeeDreamin
Well-Known Member
Well, between ferry prices, halibut mgmt **** show, struggling salmon stocks and competing priorities I'm seriously considering selling my boat this fall/winter. While I know it's never wise to do the math when you own a boat, when I consider that the cost of maintenance, ferries, insurance and storage alone cost me more than 5+ all-day offshore charters it's got me seriously thinking. While there's nothing as fun or gratifying as doing it yourself, there are a lot of great guides out there and saving the stress of towing over the Coq, through Van and through the hydro hill area, as well as having to make the captains call on those bad sea-state days, seems appealing.
To be honest, these past two years we just haven't used it a ton on the local lakes (Shu/Adams) through the summer (just 5 trips this summer with all the Interior smoke!) to justify keeping it for one salt trip to Ukee and that little local use.
It's a 2014 soft top 180 ET Searunner, so 20ft bottom w/ full pod. Has a Yammy 115XA 4-stroke with 280 hours on it and a 2016 merc 9.9EXLPT kicker w/ full controls and steering linkage (power everything). Kicker has less than 50 hrs. Wired w/ new style plugs and two Scotty 1106s, blue seas dual battery pkg w/ cranking and house batteries, gen 2 HDS 7 plotter/finder w/ freshwater + ocean chips, etc, etc. Yammy main sips gas, tops out close to 40mph, cruises @ 28mph @ 4500 rpm and has 54 US gallon tank. Also has custom travel/storage cover, canvas includes full drop curtain. Flushed w/ freshwater and salt away after annual June Ukee trips, other than that freshwater use. Serviced every spring and fall since new. On an EZ loader trailer that had oil hub bearings redone this spring. Brand new, the 190ets are going for around 60k before tax, freight, etc and before final rigging (electronics, kicker, riggers, xtra battery, etc). I'm thinking of asking mid-40s.
Anyway, still in the thought process and will post up pics and links to kijiji/Craigslist if/when posted. In the meantime if anyone's interested they can PM me. Oh yeah, located in Kamloops but I head to Abbotsford to see the in laws regularly.
Cheers!
Ukee
To be honest, these past two years we just haven't used it a ton on the local lakes (Shu/Adams) through the summer (just 5 trips this summer with all the Interior smoke!) to justify keeping it for one salt trip to Ukee and that little local use.
It's a 2014 soft top 180 ET Searunner, so 20ft bottom w/ full pod. Has a Yammy 115XA 4-stroke with 280 hours on it and a 2016 merc 9.9EXLPT kicker w/ full controls and steering linkage (power everything). Kicker has less than 50 hrs. Wired w/ new style plugs and two Scotty 1106s, blue seas dual battery pkg w/ cranking and house batteries, gen 2 HDS 7 plotter/finder w/ freshwater + ocean chips, etc, etc. Yammy main sips gas, tops out close to 40mph, cruises @ 28mph @ 4500 rpm and has 54 US gallon tank. Also has custom travel/storage cover, canvas includes full drop curtain. Flushed w/ freshwater and salt away after annual June Ukee trips, other than that freshwater use. Serviced every spring and fall since new. On an EZ loader trailer that had oil hub bearings redone this spring. Brand new, the 190ets are going for around 60k before tax, freight, etc and before final rigging (electronics, kicker, riggers, xtra battery, etc). I'm thinking of asking mid-40s.
Anyway, still in the thought process and will post up pics and links to kijiji/Craigslist if/when posted. In the meantime if anyone's interested they can PM me. Oh yeah, located in Kamloops but I head to Abbotsford to see the in laws regularly.
Cheers!
Ukee
