I'm getting ready to bite the bullet for a saltwater boat. I'm selling my little bass boat and buying bigger. I've been looking for quiet sometime (10 years) at boats. Trophy are bayliners and have a rep for cheap gauges which fade after a while (or at least that is what I have learned a few years ago). I wouldn't buy new. I would buy used. Yachtworld.com has a good list. I've also been a subscriber to Boating World for 10 years.They handle more of the 25' and above as well as properties but great boating articles.

The advice I was given was to pick out 4 or 5 boats, complement the heck out of them when you inspect, make a list in order of calling, call them and say "today is a great day for me to buy a boat, yours was the best I looked at, offer 50% of what they are asking, leave your number and call the next one." It has to do with the two best days in boat ownership, the day you buy it and the day you own it. The more days a boat goes unsold, the further out of the memory is the purchase price. You have what they want, your cash.

Does it work? I don't know but I'm getting ready soon to try it out. I want a go fast saltwater machine to start fishing tournaments.

Good luck