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Hi Gang - I just joined and would like some feedback. I have been an avid boater all my life and rode in a Mariah for the first time 20 years ago and thought I'd love to own one one day. I've been looking for a z275 st or z302. I love the open bow/cuddy option. These go fast whenever one pops up for sale. I did find one on ebay that was taken off because the reserve was not met - it got up to 13k. I'm out west so I would have to ship it out here. Anyone have advise on shipping? Also, the ebay lister has said they plan to relist it once they get some upholstery repaired. Here is a link to the old ebay post:

Mariah Z275ST Center Cabin Power Boat Sport Cuddy in Powerboats & Motorboats | eBay Motors

I'd love any advice regarding this boat or the models listed above. I also wondered if anyone had compared the two and had any preference. Thanks for your time!

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I purchased a boat 900 miles from my location. 3 days an about 500$ in fuel I had it parked in my driveway. I think that's going to be the affordable option.
I looked into renting a truck or flying into a city an renting a truck one way. Expensive going one way in a rental.
Another thing is to make sure the trailer is ready to go. Seller put new tires on for me, even though the brakes didn't work at all.
I watch those boats a lot. Be prepared to spend some money- You get what you pay for.
Have you NADA priced those boats with the options you are looking for?

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No I haven't. I figure one in decent shape will be around 20k - 28k. I saw a 302 listed last month out of Bartlett, Illinois asking 38k - the llisting didn't last long so I don't know if it sold or what.

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Here's another one

Used 1999 Mariah 302 Combo, Camdenton, Mo - 65020 - BoatTrader.com

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Actually, contacted seller broker and apparently this one sold and had multiple engine issues due to "poor mechanic work"

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The first boat you listed is owned by one of our members here, csterner. Here's his listing on the site:
http://www.mariahownersclub.com/foru...mcob-sale.html

He had a buyer or two flake out on him with ebay. I'd contact him via PM and try and talk with him about the boat. You may be able to get a deal and avoid the whole bidding war mess with ebay. :)

As for shipping, maybe try uship.com? There's quite a few reputable boat haulers on there that'd be willing to transport it for you.

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Thanks for the info - I'll keep tabs on this one!

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If you want it, you better get in touch with him and be ready to act quick. Mariah's sell unbelievably fast when they're priced right, especially the Z302's, Z300's and the Z275ST's.

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I think he may still be undecided based on our communication thus far but I agree with you - they sure go fast when they go! He said he plans to relist it on ebay soon and that he put some dough into redoing some of the upholstery. That was a week or so ago. I'm real surprised no one picked it up on ebay the first time - the listing had ended by the time I saw it. I'm still hopeful though - thanks for the tips. Pete

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It looked great minus the interior upholstery. Good things he's giving it some attention.

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You mind checking this video out that is on the ebay listing - he just relisted it. There are some things with the oil pressure that I don't understand - you mind giving me your opinion? Thanks, Pete

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...#ht_1706wt_754

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Hey Pete! I changed the video a little bit about the oil pressure but let me explain what I just did an awful job of explaining in the video. I replaced the oil sender last year. This little sensor is what screws into the side of the engine block and measures the pressure of the oil in the engine. It then sends this "signal" up to the gauge on the dash which will display the pressure there. Now, I started getting low oil pressure alarms and my dash gauge would drop to zero after I came to idle after WOT(Wide Open Throttle). So I thought I would kill two birds with one stone here. First I needed to know for sure that it was just my oil pressure sensor that was bad and secondly I wanted to display in the video the actually oil pressure so you would know that you are getting a boat that actually runs!
So, in order to hook up the manual oil pressure gauge, you have to disconnect the sensor going to the dash gauge so when you do that, the dash gauge will read zero. I brought attention to this in the video because I didn't want people to notice the gauge and say that I have an engine issue. Believe me, if I had zero oil pressure in that engine, you would have heard some pretty loud banging and knocking! :)

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What Chris said! :yes_grin:

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if you buy a boat far away put it on uship.com and maybe u can be on that shipping wars show and roy can show up.

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Or maybe Robbie... :w00t: and i guess she can bring mohawk chris along too for the ride...

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I just did a shipping quote on uship. com. The median price they gave me was $1,400. Thats about $900 more than my out of pocket expenses for my trip down an back with one night in a hotel (and lots of Inn-n-out!!).
As for the day off work I took off, I was over due for one so I won't count the PTO.
Just putting that out there for thought.

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