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Fat Jack · 04-29-2005, 01:13 PM

I'd be curious to know how this issue is effecting the sales of GFBL boats these days. This is usually about the time when they should be getting busy with sales. The marina's that profit most from cigarette boats (Channel, Lakeport Landing, Silver Sands, Shep Brown, etc) simply have to know that a speed limit is coming, whether its this time or next. Their potential customers have to be asking them about it. I'm sure the salesmen would like to answer that "it will never happen", but their lawyers are telling them to temper that with some disclaimers like the stockbrokers are all giving these days about "doing your own diligence". This has to make the buyers wary (unless they are a bit thick). If I relied on the seller's assertion that there was no such threat and threw down a couple hundred K for a boat simply so I could fly around Winnipesaukee at over 90MPH, then the 45MPH speed limit came along, I know what I would do. And if I can forsee that, so can the marina owners and their lawyers. So they must be speaking very carefully and losing a lot of sales as a result. I'd imagine that they must already be feeling this issue in a big way, yet I have not heard anything to indicate that our local economy is in the predicted free fall as a result.
Can anyone WHO HAS REAL KNOWLEDGE of the issue comment on how the go-fast marinas are doing so far this spring? Please no flaming...just answer if you know anything.

04-29-2005, 01:13 PM	#68
Fat Jack Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 183 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	High-Speed Boat Sales I'd be curious to know how this issue is effecting the sales of GFBL boats these days. This is usually about the time when they should be getting busy with sales. The marina's that profit most from cigarette boats (Channel, Lakeport Landing, Silver Sands, Shep Brown, etc) simply have to know that a speed limit is coming, whether its this time or next. Their potential customers have to be asking them about it. I'm sure the salesmen would like to answer that "it will never happen", but their lawyers are telling them to temper that with some disclaimers like the stockbrokers are all giving these days about "doing your own diligence". This has to make the buyers wary (unless they are a bit thick). If I relied on the seller's assertion that there was no such threat and threw down a couple hundred K for a boat simply so I could fly around Winnipesaukee at over 90MPH, then the 45MPH speed limit came along, I know what I would do. And if I can forsee that, so can the marina owners and their lawyers. So they must be speaking very carefully and losing a lot of sales as a result. I'd imagine that they must already be feeling this issue in a big way, yet I have not heard anything to indicate that our local economy is in the predicted free fall as a result. Can anyone WHO HAS REAL KNOWLEDGE of the issue comment on how the go-fast marinas are doing so far this spring? Please no flaming...just answer if you know anything.