Need help trying to value an older Eaglecraft

Quatsinoman

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I have an 18.5’ Eaglecraft centre console aluminum boat with 90hp Optimax and Merc kicker. Boat is originally a Haida Gwaii lodge boat, but I had Daigle add a pod to increase the useable space. Amazing boat. Planning to sell but am absolutely striking out finding any comparable boats for sale anywhere to try and gauge a fair price. Any suggestions?
 
There was an eagle craft for sale in port alberni with a new 115 merc and a kicker. I think for 40k. No trailer.

There was an aluminum centre console for sale west coast VI with a blown engine I think for 20k.

I’d figure out the value of the hull and then add what it comes with 15-35k for the hull? T-top? Quality of the helm, age of the steering and hydraulics, seat, electrical.

A few of the members watch aluminum centre consoles closely.
 
I have an 18.5’ Eaglecraft centre console aluminum boat with 90hp Optimax and Merc kicker. Boat is originally a Haida Gwaii lodge boat, but I had Daigle add a pod to increase the useable space. Amazing boat. Planning to sell but am absolutely striking out finding any comparable boats for sale anywhere to try and gauge a fair price. Any suggestions?
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The market value is the maximum price someone is willing to pay for your boat, and you should be able to get a sense for this by shopping around for a similar used boat in similar condition. I've sold a few houses and the first thing I do is go house shopping to get a sense for what my place is worth - it's the same with boats.

Then there's the value, which can be different than the price. The major components of a boat depreciate at different rates and if you can do some research to determine roughly what each component would cost new today and then estimate the service life of each component you can get a pretty good sense for it's value. For example, unless it's been damaged somehow I think an EagleCraft hull should be worth close to the cost of a new bare hull and you can get a sense for that by talking to a builder. The cost of aluminum is ~25% higher today (in constant $) than it was 20 years ago and it's likely that a new hull would cost the same as your entire boat did 20 years ago. Another example would be if your outboard has 500 hours on it and it's service life is expected to be ~1000 hours, then it's value would be around half the cost of a new installed outboard and Yamaha posts it's prices on line and you can talk to a dealer and get a sense for the installed cost. And so on.

Some people won't settle for less than a brand new boat - but sometimes there's more value in buying used and the more you know about the cost of the individual components the better you'll be at finding that value.
 
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