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Old 01-12-2015, 09:04 PM   #27
Marin
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I'm with Eric (again). I think buying a boat based on what the majority of boaters around you have is not a smart way to select a boat.

The boats in the majority in your area can be a useful data point to keep in mind as they will have some characteristics that are well suited to your boating region. But what you want is not a boat that other people wanted but what YOU want.

If we had made our purchase decision based on the brand with the largest number of buyers in our area we'd have bought a Bayliner. But there's no way in hell we'd ever buy a Bayliner. Not because we think they're bad boats but because we think they are all very ugly from an exterior aesthetics point of view. Exterior aesthetics are very important to us, so Bayliner was automatically off our list. So were a lot of other makes for the same reason.

So if after you have determined what you want to do with a boat and what characteristics and attributes you want your boat to have, if a trailerable Albin is what you feel will fill the bill, that's the boat you should get.

It doesn't matter iif you have the only 25' Albin inside a 500 mile radius of where you live. It doesn't matter if the best way to get what you want is to buy it in the PNW and haul it home.

The only thing that matters is that you get a boat that will do what you want to do in the manner you want to do it, and that it's a boat that you really like.

Eric is familiar with Albins having owned one, so he would be a good source of honest information about them based on experience.

And no matter what kind of boat you get and what you have to do to get it remember that this is supposed to be fun.
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