and beside that, who needs TV soaps ?........just read your email !......lol
Bill T.
M15 - 158
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Royce
To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: M_Boats: M23 Still For Sale in AZ for $5800 or offer
Exactly... and might i add the wisdom and comraderie of this group is worth
the price of admission...
I am going sailing Sunday!!!! Yay!!!
Jeff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree that the book numbers on Montys are skewed from private
sales...being that small trailer sailboats usually aren't brokered or
financed. However,
I wrote NADA a couple yrs ago asking for how they get the numbers. Values on
NADA are actual selling prices reported by any new or used boat dealer,
marina, broker, bank, etc who subscribes to the NADA pub. The only way any
boat
value in NADA may be 15 yrs old is if none had been sold or reported by a
subscriber. NADA also said their free web site values are lower than their
subscription pub...don't ask me why because I didn't follow that one up.
Also, FreeWilly is entitled to his opinion and I personally didn't get
offended at his critique...it's plain boat talk like any other stuff. I don't
get
why anyone gets uptight or hostile about opinions on Monty quality or values.
Bottom line to me is Montys are a cult boat with limited numbers. They spend
most of them time on a trailer and it results in low stress, long life and
boats that show very well. It drives prices up no matter what the quality.
Before anyone blasts me for whatever, I'm a long time Monty owner...since
1975-76 and still own it. I bought 100% for the design and quality was
secondary.
Construction issues or resale means nothing to me...never has, never will. If
it breaks (and it has) I fix it. Monty ownership for me is all about getting
a boat design I like.
Bill P. (NOT Freewilly)
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