I've had good luck selling boats and other items on ebay and craigslist.
IMO, a lot of the process is in how you write the ad. Use good grammar and run the text through a spell checker. Your boat is not an item to "LQQK" at, nor does the description ever warrant more than 1 exclamation point. It's also not perfect, and reasonable people don't expect it to be, so don't be afraid to list any known dents/dings/issues and save everyone some trouble. Don't set the price as "Firm" and don't include "OBO". Most people expect to negotiate on private sales, price it to leave a little bit of negotiating room.
Take some time to investigate reasonable selling prices for similarly equipped models/years as your boat. What you paid for it, what you owe, what some "blue book" says it's worth (and other random data points to back up your inflated asking price) have no where near as much merit as comparable sales.
Be available and responsive to phone calls and emails, realizing up front that it is tiresome to rebuff the offers to trade for a used (non-working) lobster trap, ATV's, various "projects" in miscellaneous states of non-completion and other stupid, worthless crap.
(note that I haven't read your ad, so don't take any of this as directed at you personally, just suggestions).
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