Well Hi there fellow 1980 Bayliner 2750 owner. My Victoria was the second boat I bought in the summer of 2018. My work in the oilpatch (horizontal oil well drilling (MWD Operator)) was super slow and this boat had a fairly motivated seller - a 36 year old Junior Architect working for a firm in Calgary while his Dad and family had charged him to sell the boat as the father who was the owner) was forced by health and medical issues to leave his hometown of Castlegar, BC and move to Vancouver, BC in order to more effectively battle his health predicaments. The son wanted to find someone who would take good care of the boat, and I worked hard to assure him I would. I was also living in Calgary. Well the son took a weekend trip to Scotties Marina in Castlegar to check the boat, see if it was as nice as he had remembered as a boy, and make sure it was ready for me. (He was decided that he would sell the boat to me vs a couple other suitors). We had started with a price of $4000 before the son's trip. The son called me from Castlegar and said "the boat's not as pristine as I remember my father keeping it, I'm going to drop the price for you to $2000. The next week after he got back to Calgary he called me to meet him at a downtown restaurant near his work where he'd have a bill of sale for me and the keys. I met the man and he would not take a dollar more than $1000 for the Bayliner. Awesome. About a month after buying that Bayliner, and friend on mine and myself pulled an empty trailer out to Scotties Marina to pick up my wicked boat. Boat was too big for trailer, marina wanted moorage, marina was for sale, oil patch was slow. Well, I sure as heck didn't feel like paying monthly moorage charges for my baby that was a 6.5 hour drive away so I bought the marina. Now I can drive the boat every day!! HaHa. True story. I need another one for my rental fleet. I rent these boats out to folks and they love 'em!! Rod S.
Well Hi there fellow 1980 Bayliner 2750 owner. My Victoria was the second boat I bought in the summer of 2018. My work in the oilpatch (horizontal oil well drilling (MWD Operator)) was super slow and this boat had a fairly motivated seller - a 36 year old Junior Architect working for a firm in Calgary while his Dad and family had charged him to sell the boat as the father who was the owner) was forced by health and medical issues to leave his hometown of Castlegar, BC and move to Vancouver, BC in order to more effectively battle his health predicaments. The son wanted to find someone who would take good care of the boat, and I worked hard to assure him I would. I was also living in Calgary. Well the son took a weekend trip to Scotties Marina in Castlegar to check the boat, see if it was as nice as he had remembered as a boy, and make sure it was ready for me. (He was decided that he would sell the boat to me vs a couple other suitors). We had started with a price of $4000 before the son's trip. The son called me from Castlegar and said "the boat's not as pristine as I remember my father keeping it, I'm going to drop the price for you to $2000. The next week after he got back to Calgary he called me to meet him at a downtown restaurant near his work where he'd have a bill of sale for me and the keys. I met the man and he would not take a dollar more than $1000 for the Bayliner. Awesome. About a month after buying that Bayliner, and friend on mine and myself pulled an empty trailer out to Scotties Marina to pick up my wicked boat. Boat was too big for trailer, marina wanted moorage, marina was for sale, oil patch was slow. Well, I sure as heck didn't feel like paying monthly moorage charges for my baby that was a 6.5 hour drive away so I bought the marina. Now I can drive the boat every day!! HaHa. True story. I need another one for my rental fleet. I rent these boats out to folks and they love 'em!! Rod S.