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Originally Posted by JohnR
Southern boats also have twice the hard usage on them with twice the hours.
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That is a generalization that everyone up here makes. I believed it myself until I actually went and looked at some boats. I looked at a Regulator in Kill Devil Hills, NC and it was used hard and not very well taken care of but there are so many more boats down there and so many to choose from you can definitely find a well cared for boats with low hours.
My Contender is from Mississippi. It's a 2003 and still looks brand new. It was very well cared for, kept inside a garage and trailered. I got it 2 years ago from an older gentleman and it had less than 450 hours. To say he was sad to see it go was an understatement. He still emails me asking about the boat. He had to sell it as he was moving and it was during the BP oil spill so they had shut that whole area down anyway. I had the boat surveyed and it was mint (only think it needed was a new wash down pump). The Yamaha HPDI was also well taken care of with very low hours in the high RPM range. Boat had all paperwork etc. It was cheaper for me to buy it there and have it shipped up than what that same boat was selling for in the North East. (I did finagle a work trip near where the boat was in Miss so I could check it out which saved some $$). Out of all the boats I looked at (most in this area), that boat’s condition blew the doors off of what I was finding up here.
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