ive dropped about 1k into mine this spring.....

 

well I just spent 8k for a new Hull and trailer... the cost will be just going up and up after I get it and start setting it up to fish from...

 

I'd hate to know what some folks have in there boats and the cost in keeping the up and running.

Some of the larger fan riggs have just about 5 k just in a fan.

 

I've got right at 6k in mine.

 

I have a 1648 john boat with a 50hp tiller and trailer.I have about $4000.00 invested

 

I would use the word "invested" loosely. I'm ready to start riding not guiding.

 

15k .....added another 1.5k since

 

at least 25k but don't tell the ol'lady

 

i'm tellin' her!

 

In the last 8 months I have spent 5200 on new poly and hull repair and 5,000 on a engine rebuild so thats 10,200 without minor stuff.

 

Thats not what I have in the boat.. just recent repairs and upgrades.

 

5800 initial cost for boat motor and trailer

new kicker 1200
misc stuff 500
new tilt trim parts 400

Thats just this year, last year I spent several thousand also on repairs, maintinance and misc stuff........My wife hates the word "boat"

 

Break
Out
Another
Thousand

And
I
Repeat

Break
out
Another
Thousand

 

:hb: :hb:

 

I got out with less then a thousand Steve, all I needed yesterday was new tires!!!!!!!!!!! $600

 

i have so far in my new boat about 1K and i plan on havin it complete for around....3K-4K

 

Lol. Good thread.

 

i bought my boat for 95 cents and added about 80 cents worth of stuff to get it ready to fish

that comes out to 1.75 thats my story and im sticking to it!

 

Arm, leg, left nut.

 

:laugh:
:laugh:

 

Ive got:
16k in the hull and rigging
2K in the trailer
12K in a Motor
5k in a prop and Belt drive
900 in lights
Around 3.5k in Misc accessories like rudders, cables, fuel cells, ect.
So right at $39,400 give or take.
And Garguys is right it seems like the chit never ends. They nickle and dime ya to death. I wanna know if any one has bought a boat and made a budget for your project and actually HELD to the budget. I think its impossible.

 

I just put a $1,000 piece of plastic on the bottom of my boat.

 

$22,500

 

Good thread...painful but good I guess?

Bare hull, trailer, motor originally 3000.

Sold the moter for 800-puts bare hull and trailer at 2200.

Blasting the hull-500.

Roughly 3000 in metal.

Outboard, prop, gas to pick it up in WI-roughly 6000.

Steering, rigging labor, controls, gas tank, oil tank-roughly 900.

Maxxum 36v 101lb-450.

4 batteries-roughly 500.

Buying and selling my welder, 2 full tanks of argon and a spool of wire, net loss-roughly 700. (still have a 5ft tall tank though that's full!)

Speakers, radio mount, baffles-roughly 200.

Hydraulic jack plate-1000.

Plus odds and ends (wire, small lights, switches, foam, latches, totes, nuts and bolts) total roughly 300. (WILD estimate here)

General total so far-$15,750....'ISH'.

Good Christ-I really seriously didn't realize I had sunk this much damn $$$$$$$$$$$$ into my boat!

And the bad part is, I STILL have a 3200 trailer to buy, 2 Honda gennys at 2000 for both, hydraulic steering at almost 1000, and a fishfinder/GPS at about 600!! OUCH!

What's that you say? A FAN?

....ehh...maybe next year....

 

prolly 1500 all set up like i want it

 

After seeing some of the replies made while I was doing my math, maybe I am not as bad off as I thought....lol.

At least for what I've got. Saved a TON of chedda doing it myself!

 

Approaching the 40k mark...:td:

 

4 grand for the boat, another grand for lights, steele, batts. and genny, thats about it.

 

three times the amount my wife thinks I have in it GNR

 

i'm ashamed to say!

 

x2! about 15k and in the process of putting fan on so there goes another 4k