[THEFERMANATOR]

Trying to sell a boat right now for a profit is almost impossible. Asking price is one thing, but what you don't see is the actual selling prices. Many people right now are listing there boats with as high of an asking price as they think they can without scaring off all of the buyers. Then the buyer feels better when they buy the boat for 60% of the asking price, when that is what the seller wanted in the first place. As for a TROPHY boat, go out and see which boats are rocking and rolling the worst on the bays. My bet will be that the lightweight TROPHY's will be rockin and rollin when the WELLCRAFTS are just wobblin a little. As for the rebuild on the 150, $3300 sounds about right for the job if he does a complete rebuild with new pistons and bearings and seals.

Many shops out there right now are just doing repairs and calling them a rebuild and then charging ungodly prices for said repairs. On the other hand, $3300 would buy you a nice used EFI engine right now. Or for a little more money you could buy a used 150 OPTIMAX, and then part out the current 150 on EBAY or CRAIGSLIST and recover some of the upgrade costs. I can tell you that I just rebuilt my 89 200HP EVINRUDE and it set me back close to $1500 in parts and boring and I did the work myself. I did use some upgraded non OEM parts(grahite coated pistons and BOYESEN reeds), but a basic rebuild will normally run close to $1500-$1800 in parts alone by the time you buy the parts, machine work, and incidentals. For $3300 I'm sure BS could get you a nice used engine, I believe he just got a late model 150 EFI he said in another post.