YoDaddy292
Jet Boat Junkie
- Messages
- 291
- Reaction score
- 725
- Points
- 147
- Location
- Washington State
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2022
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 21
Since I’ve been lurking for a couple of weeks and soaking up the valuable and entertaining knowledge here, I realize just how stupid fortunate we have been since beginning our boat buying journey......
We bought a little Maxum 17’ open bow a few years ago for $1800 and it shined up nice and never let us down (disgustingly fortunate there as I swore I would never own a boat). After a few trips of playing, cove partying, sunset cruising, tubing, and unfortunately tripping over people and gear if more than four people where on board we couldn’t take our eyes off those cool boats with the bitchin’ swim steps! After some classified searching (used ones cost as much or more than new ones) and dealer website browsing we started getting the itch to get one.
We only started getting serious about buying this April (22’) and began looking at local dealers (there are only two on our side of the state) and making phone calls. First thing we noticed was one dealer didn’t really appear to have any inventory and the other had every single Yamaha priced $10,000 over msrp! So we found a dealer across the state, made a phone call, and drove 4 hours just to look and hopefully bring one home (that’s cute. I thought it would be like a car where you go to the lot and tow it home ?).
We showed up with the thought of picking up an AR190 and marveled over the storage and width of the thing. We sat down, worked out a price, and then the wife went to the bathroom. She came back and said “can we se the 21’”. I was flabbergasted! That was my idea in the first place but we were trying to keep the expenses down. So we leave the desk and walk through the AR210 where the boss/better half/bread winner states......”this is the one I want, if we are going to upgrade and spend money on a new boat I want this one”. I may have said those exact words all along but I wisely kept my mouth shut and just nodded at her wisdom.
The salesman informed us the one we were aboard (the only one on the lot) was spoken for but they had another and last one coming. So again we sit down, run numbers, discuss approximate delivery dates, etc.... looked like mid-June at best but by then it dawned on me buying a new Yamaha was NOT like buying a motorcycle or car and the wait was fine. Fast forward to this week and the salesman calls us and says.......the people that are on the list for the boat on the lot need more time and would like to swap places with you (I fist pump in the air and silently mouth HELL YEAH to the wife as we are speaking). So needless to say we walked in “wide eyed stupid” and will be getting our new boat before Memorial Day after starting our search last month.
So that has been our journey into jet boating so far and I hope this experience is the “meant to be” situation it feels like. We plan to enjoy the boat, get a feel for everything, and see what she needs as I finally get everything down as well as I can in stock form. Good information and posts here guys, wish I would have discovered this site BEFORE I started looking but then again I might have over thought the whole process and not been on a new boat until next winter ?.
We bought a little Maxum 17’ open bow a few years ago for $1800 and it shined up nice and never let us down (disgustingly fortunate there as I swore I would never own a boat). After a few trips of playing, cove partying, sunset cruising, tubing, and unfortunately tripping over people and gear if more than four people where on board we couldn’t take our eyes off those cool boats with the bitchin’ swim steps! After some classified searching (used ones cost as much or more than new ones) and dealer website browsing we started getting the itch to get one.
We only started getting serious about buying this April (22’) and began looking at local dealers (there are only two on our side of the state) and making phone calls. First thing we noticed was one dealer didn’t really appear to have any inventory and the other had every single Yamaha priced $10,000 over msrp! So we found a dealer across the state, made a phone call, and drove 4 hours just to look and hopefully bring one home (that’s cute. I thought it would be like a car where you go to the lot and tow it home ?).
We showed up with the thought of picking up an AR190 and marveled over the storage and width of the thing. We sat down, worked out a price, and then the wife went to the bathroom. She came back and said “can we se the 21’”. I was flabbergasted! That was my idea in the first place but we were trying to keep the expenses down. So we leave the desk and walk through the AR210 where the boss/better half/bread winner states......”this is the one I want, if we are going to upgrade and spend money on a new boat I want this one”. I may have said those exact words all along but I wisely kept my mouth shut and just nodded at her wisdom.
The salesman informed us the one we were aboard (the only one on the lot) was spoken for but they had another and last one coming. So again we sit down, run numbers, discuss approximate delivery dates, etc.... looked like mid-June at best but by then it dawned on me buying a new Yamaha was NOT like buying a motorcycle or car and the wait was fine. Fast forward to this week and the salesman calls us and says.......the people that are on the list for the boat on the lot need more time and would like to swap places with you (I fist pump in the air and silently mouth HELL YEAH to the wife as we are speaking). So needless to say we walked in “wide eyed stupid” and will be getting our new boat before Memorial Day after starting our search last month.
So that has been our journey into jet boating so far and I hope this experience is the “meant to be” situation it feels like. We plan to enjoy the boat, get a feel for everything, and see what she needs as I finally get everything down as well as I can in stock form. Good information and posts here guys, wish I would have discovered this site BEFORE I started looking but then again I might have over thought the whole process and not been on a new boat until next winter ?.