New Discovery show coming
 

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I've known Mike B for about 20 something years, this show should be interesting.
Knowing Mike like I do I know very little acting if any is needed for this reality show, this is how he is.

I thought you were pointing to the new reality show: Skunk Whisperer :smash: but that is on Animal Planet!

Looks like an interesting boat renovation show but too many bleeps for Discovery?

Moonshiner's!!

It will be right in line with the 2 Pauls of American Chopper

That should be a good show, I've always admired their work.

I drive by that place all the time, always great looking boats out front! Looks to be a great show! Can't wait!!

i'd love to give them my seacraft for the offseason.

Cool. I'll tune in.

Looks cool, I'll watch...I can't imagine there is that much work or money in that business these days...but they do nice work.

The amount of hours that has to go into to a full restoration on some of these boats could exceed the cost of a new boat. (and be a fraction of the cost of a like-new used boat) But I suppose if your heart is set on fixing something up and you have a deep wallet...what the hell.

Do it! You only live once. If you can afford it: JUST DO IT!!!

[QUOTE=piemma;905565]Do it! You only live once. If you can afford it: JUST DO IT!!

Unfortunatley I cant afford it.

Just looks like they do a killer job.

from what I hear they specialize is restoring old seacrafts. Saw some of their work at the boat show.

They were at the boatshow last year. Product is not worthy of the pricetag. He did a lot of work for a friend of mine. Go buy a regulator and skip the nostalgia.

I agree. When they were in Rockland, I stopped in to get a quote on some minor work to be done on an old boat I had at the time. I almost fell on my ass when they told me how much they wanted.
They do decent work, but are priced way higher than most anyone else locally. Look at their website and check the prices on a few of their restored boats. $55K for a restored old Boston Whaler? No thanks. I could spend $55K a lot more wisely than that.

I agree $140K for a restored 23' seacraft. Insane. I could get a yellowfin for that tag.

That was my point...there is no way you can make a business doing this.

140K for a seacraft? Give me 140K and you can have my boat today! I am serious.

What you can get on the bank-owned market today for 140K would astound you. You probably could not afford to put fuel in it...hence you would be better giving me 140K :)

I ran across a show on one of the information channels the other nite .

It was about 3 or 4 boats shrimping ..........................................After about 5 minutes I thought it was [Really] comedy .

But the more I saw /I realized it was for real .


Damn red necks shrimp fishing // this couldn,t be made up /I turned it off because it was scary /some of the things they were doing or trying to do ........... I was waiting to see if one of them was going to go swimming <><><>

I can only guess what it would be like /if you were watching it after passing the Peace pipe ><><><><:lurk::lurk:

140k would get you half a dozen completely restored Seacrafts right now and have plenty of money left over for fuel in all of them.

Hell, I'm sure NEB, Newport Shipyard, Goetz, Waterline, or any of the big boys would do a restoration for half of that and it would be mostly carbon. :hihi:

I guess not many of you guys have seen someone dump 30-40k into a 60s or 70s muscle car thats only worth less than 10k.
Also, from what I've been told most of those "Theme bikes" that they build on OCC sell for over 100k

That's not true Ron. I've seen it many times and feel the same way. Just doesn't make sense to me. I can understand a very small percentage that do it for an emotional tie to something, but that's not your typical market.

Whats not true ?

Where you said not many of you guys have seen someone dump 30-40K into a less than 10K car or over spend on motorcycles.
I've seen it and it doesn't make any sense and neither does spending the kind of dough these guys charge for a boat restoration. I'm certainly not implying they don't do good work. Not at all. What I do think though is that you can get the same work done elsewhere for a fraction of what they charge.

Given that they're the same frame with the same outsourced fuel tank with some paint and junk thrown on, they're proof there's a sucker born every minute.


I'd like to know what exactly a 140k restoration is, build a mold and build a whole new boat? (Which similar is being done down in Portsmouth with wooden boats, almost zero original wood, but they're 'restorations'.)

Yeah, seems like a great show to watch with my young son. F bombs dropped left and right, lots of class........

I wonder how much they get paid to get in fights. :hihi:

If they have to bleep every three words, it's un-watchable IMO. You can't follow a story line that is full of bleeps.

[QUOTE=likwid;905720]Given that they're the same frame with the same outsourced fuel tank with some paint and junk thrown on, they're proof there's a sucker born every minute.

They aren't the same frame and tanks. Far from anything stock. But, they are still way over priced. With the price of materials these days, I can understand a full custom bike running $50K. I don't understand $100K + though. I built my own full custom several years ago for $10k. Granted I didn't use as many custom parts as these guys, but I would say you can build a pretty sweet custom scooter for $25K given the current market.

ive talked to other seacraft owners that have done full restores from the stringers up for approx 30-40K. For 30-40K you have basically a brand new boat with a priceless hull. I get that. $140K for a 23'?????? Is the steering wheel platinum with diamonds, is the transom made of marble, gold plated deck? Where the hell is the money?????? $50K whaler? WTF

I can see how it gets that expensive... Look at his overhead. The people, all making decent coin + benie's. (trips to Italy for the crew) The Shop, the insurance, etc. Many seacraft owners have a lot of "sweat-equity" in their rebuilds. Yeah they put 30K into it but they but another 1000 hours of their own time as well. Was it worth it? To them yes, because they loved working on it and seeing it come back. But most of these guys take a hit when/if they resell .

Your best deal in boating is buying a lightly used boat from a person in financial distress right now. Use it until you get bored then sell it for whatever you can and chalk up the expense to memories. New boats are nice but the depreciation is insane and adds more pain to an already painful hobby. Rebuilds are "projects" and require lots of time and $. If you love it then by all means go ahead, but if you can't complete it you are in a deeper hole then when you started. Try and sell a "partially" restored boat today....

Heck just cause you know what you are doing does not guarantee success. Look at J&J in somerset. They closed their doors this year. They had a heck of a facility and some very talented people in just about every area of the business. They also had a list of celebrity clients. I hear the property is up for sale for 6 mil. You could put some condos on it I suppose.

Well Borelli brought in a partner with some capital. He moved to a new facility with more space and seems to be trying to hit a homerun with every swing.I wish him well but you need value for money spent regardless of your bank account.Shame about J&J, I know they had a good reputation too.

Without big exposure you really can't hang in there, Goetz/GMT has gone bankrupt/closed their doors HOW MANY TIMES?

It does help that they're pretty much one of the best in the business though.

And like I said earlier, 140k? Have them pop a mold off the hull you want.

This show and his industry is a look inside the luxury market. I work for the same sort of ultra wealthy population that frankly none of us here can relate to. Would I pay $55k for a 1967 13' Whaler? F-No!!! But there's rich dudes out there that can and will just to say they have a boat that this guy refurbished because he's the only one that can. Even if he's not the only guy that can refurbish the boat to those standards it doesn't matter cuz in the eyes of the rich he's in their circle now and they will pay for it. We'll never get it. Would any of you guys here pay $55k or six figures for a surround sound system with remote access controls for cameras and HVAC, lighting, security, etc? Probably not cuz you can get other products that do the same in your eyes from Best Buy, the internet, etc. The rich come to us because they want someone else to do that work for them so they can do what they do and get richer. They should do a freakin show on us and our field crew. It would be the same thing. High pressure to deliver at the convienience of the wealthy can create some interesting situations in the field and office. We have projects that have been in films and phot shoots for high profile magazines, etc. The wealthy annoy me sometimes but they keep my family fed and the bills paid.