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2 weeks ago | 
boats.com | Lenny Rudow |SaltWater Sportsman |many others. Lenny
Whether you’re shopping at a boat show or perusing the listings for new boats for sale on boats.com, you almost certainly have a budget in mind. For many people this budget’s ceiling will top out at around $50,000, which is about as much as you’d spend on the average new car. With that price point in mind, can you find a high-quality new boat? Absolutely.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
boats.com | Lenny Rudow |SaltWater Sportsman |many others. Lenny
Once upon a time pontoon boats were simple affairs with small outboards and few frills, but these days, many models are just as fancy as a small yacht—and they carry a price tag to match. In fact, if you take a look at some of the best pontoon boats of 2024 you’ll see many that cost as much as a small home in some parts of the nation.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
boats.com | Lenny Rudow |SaltWater Sportsman |many others. Lenny
NorthCoast boats are well known for their pilothouse and center console models, which serve up fishermen with a heaping helping of angling acuity along with comfort and downeast design. Up until now, however, their line consisted of relatively small boats and was capped at 31’. For the 2025 model year there’s a big change in store and “big” is the key word here, with the introduction of their all-new 415 HT.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
boats.com | Lenny Rudow |SaltWater Sportsman |many others. Lenny
Flybridge motor yachts are generally going to be large, luxurious craft and the vast majority are built to exacting standards. Yes, they will be expensive and require quite a bit of maintenance and upkeep, but very, very few would be described as “sub par.” Still, even in this high-end marketplace you will find that some brands are better than others. Which are the best flybridge motor yachts of all? The answer is somewhat subjective, but these top choices belong on everyone’s short-list.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
boats.com | Lenny Rudow |SaltWater Sportsman |many others. Lenny
Modern boats aren’t exactly cheap, and many people with a hard red budgetary line will be looking at used boats. For many other people, however, there’s a desire to buy new. That way you get an unblemished beauty that should be mechanically sound and you know has never been abused. On top of that, it also gets you a warranty—and considering the buyer-beware nature of used boat purchases, that’s a major consideration.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
boats.com | Lenny Rudow |SaltWater Sportsman |many others. Lenny
Parker boats have always been known as rough-and-ready fishing machines, whether you were considering their line of center consoles or their pilot house boat models. In recent years, however, they’ve been rolling out a new generation of boats that maintain the fishing-first focus while also adding in a healthy heaping of family-friendliness and comfort.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
boats.com | Lenny Rudow |SaltWater Sportsman |many others. Lenny
Annapolis, MD, is known as the “Sailing Capitol of the World,” so it only makes sense that the Annapolis Sailboat Show is one of the biggest and best venues to see the latest and greatest sailboats on the planet. In fact, this event has been named among the 10 Best Boat Shows in the US. When it first started up all the way back in 1970 it represented a new approach to boat shows, being the first sailboat show in the country to features the sailboats in the water.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
boats.com | Lenny Rudow |SaltWater Sportsman |many others. Lenny
Bayliner has been on a tear recently, introducing an entire new model line of cabin boats like the T25 Pilothouse, an all-weather fishing machine that showed up for the first time this past spring. But this pilothouse design is intended for fishing, period, and doesn’t have many cruising amenities. Enter: the T29 Explorer, with more of an express cruiser style cabin and some luxury touches to boot.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
boats.com | Lenny Rudow |SaltWater Sportsman |many others. Lenny
In less than a month the Annapolis Powerboat Show will take over Ego Alley and the downtown Annapolis harbor, where hundreds of new boats of all shapes and sizes will be dazzling boaters and future boaters with acre after acre of gleaming fiberglass. The show begins on Thursday, October 3 and runs through Sunday, October 6, with hours of 10:00 a.m. through 6:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 10:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
boats.com | Lenny Rudow |SaltWater Sportsman |many others. Lenny
Whether you have a trawler on a mooring, a sailing cruiser you take to distant ports, or a mega yacht at anchor in the bay, you’ll need a tender to get back and forth from the dock. Tenders come in all shapes and sizes but the one thing they share in common is their mission to transport captain, crew, and visitors when the mothership can’t pull up to a pier. Like any genre of boat, however, all tenders are not created equally.
