After a very frustrating four months of advertising our boat on kijiji and autotrader without success even after dropping the price from $29.5K to $25K CAD, we finally have moved our beloved 260 horizon.
I can't believe how much e-mail contact you get from scammers (the i'm out of country want to pay by paypal guys) and lowballers (want your bottom price before they come and then will want to re-negotiate after they arrive - I refuse to negotiate until they come so they never make an appointment to view). I had a few people that were resourceful enough to direct me to their boats for sale since I had indicated in my ad that I was interested in selling so we could move into a cruiser... One guy even wanted too trade a 34 foot sailboat that's moored in the yacht club 2 miles from my house ---NOT!!! The boats that people were selling were out of my price range so I respectfully told them so.
We were contacted by a gentleman that wanted to trade (even) his cruiser for our boat
He provided a description of his boat and wrote that he had bought a cottage last summer and was now not using his cruiser but wanted a large bowrider to move people to other islands and visit with buddies that still had boats plus some watersports for his kids. the boat was local. I was leary but asked for some pictures and further information. My wife and I viewed the pictures and she like the layout and wanted to trade instantly. I had many sleepless nights because I was really hoping to sell our boat and purchase a 30' x 10 beam cruiser on a trailer from the US. for somewhere between 10-15K. I had located several that met my criteria but couldn't commit until the bowrider was sold.... this boat met all my search criteria (and even some of the 'nice to have' items) except it was not trailerable and did not come with one. We went to see the boat and my wife again loved it but I had many more sleepless nights... I finally resolved my personal tribulations and agreed to the trade pending a good survey report.I must add a big THANK YOU! and kudos to Cap'n Morgan for his advice on this boat and several others as we corresponded back and forth. He was a wealth of knowledge, compassionate, empathetic and an excellent shoulder to lean on during this whole process.
Here's the happy new owner of our boat taking her away on August 27th.
