2020 Mako 284 CC — Destin, Florida

A 2020 Mako 284 CC at Destin, Florida, asking $166,700 through popsells.com — two brokers hold the listing. Mako has built plain, heavily laid-up offshore center consoles since 1967, and the 284 Center Console was the modern line's flagship statement of it: in production from 2005 to 2020, 28.33 ft of hull carrying a 9.83 ft beam. Nearly ten feet of beam on a 28-footer is the model's whole idea — an outsized fishing platform on a hull with a long public record of getting offshore and back — and it is why the type stayed in the catalog fifteen years.

This is a final-year hull, as late an example as the 284 gets. Two honesty notes. We hold no sister 284 to benchmark against, so the ask has no same-model yardstick here. And we have not surveyed her: hours, kit and condition are the broker's story to verify.

What our shelf does place is the price, and it does not flatter the ask: $166,700 sits near the top of the center consoles we hold at this size, on a shelf where the same money reaches newer, bigger glass.

The plainest example is the 2023 Wellcraft 302 Fisherman at Key Largo — three years newer and two feet longer for $3,290 more:

Where the instinct is to keep the money instead, the 2017 Sea Fox 288 Commander at Marrero, Louisiana is the same 28 feet, three years older, for $46,705 less:

And if the pull is a harder-built hull rather than a longer one, a 2023 Regulator 26 XO asks $189,900 — the premium-yard trade, two feet shorter and $23,200 more:

Against those doors this boat must argue condition and lateness of build — if a last-of-the-run 284 is precisely the brief, this is the one to survey first: