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[sakimano]

I'm looking into buying a bass boat and wanted to get an idea of costs people experience in the GTA/Ontario. I'm considering something like a 10 year old triton/ranger/nitro etc... You get the idea. Not a new $50,000 job but not something I will need to replace in 3 years.

Namely...

1. Storage - ideally I'd like something near my house in oakville so I don't have to block half my driveway. This would be year round with in/out privileges in the summer and just stored covered in the winter

2. Winterization and regular maintenance - this will vary wildly by participant I'm sure but let me know what you would anticipate.

3. Other regular replacement parts and lifetimes 9n those... I. E. Need new marine carpet approximately every xx years and it costs xxx

4. Insurance - this would include other storage and marine insurance for use if there is such a thing.

Anything else I'm missing? Besides the cost of medical bills when my wife beats me after seeing all of these bills...

[FrequentFlyer]

fuel!!!!! both for the boat and the tow vehicle, not to mention the maintenance on the tow vehicle as a result from towing, mostly transmission stuff, cooler and tires.  as they say Boat= Bring Out Another Thousand

[DitchWizard]

Like frequentflyer said fuel is a big one. Also where and when you will be fishing, if this will be a boat for big water you will probably be looking into something that will need a full sized truck or suv to tow and launch. It will be heavy and probably a deep V in that case and take a lots of hp to get on plane. Generally you can get a shallow draft boat that will be easy to tow and easy to plane with a smaller motor or a deeper bigger boat that will run big water but heavy, hard to launch ext. There are some exceptions like a power dory that could be towed by a big car or mini van, do 30mpg with a 40hp and handle open water great lakes fishing