2015 Rinker Rinker 276 Captiva Bowrider — Antioch, IL

A 2015 Rinker 276 Captiva Bowrider at Antioch, Illinois, asking $49,900 through SkipperBud's Sequoit Harbor. Rinker built affordable family powerboats at Syracuse, Indiana from 1945 on — long standard-kit lists, plain prices, no badge premium — and the 276 Captiva carried the idea up-size: a 28-foot bowrider on a nine-foot beam, the day boat grown to whole-weekend scale. This is a late hull from the model's 2008–2016 run, and the yard behind it is gone — Polaris bought Rinker in 2018 and closed the Syracuse plant in 2020.

Two honest notes. We hold no sister ship, so whether $49,900 is keen for a 2015 276 Captiva cannot be read off our own shelf — the class has to do the pricing. And an orphaned badge cuts both ways: it is part of why the money reads soft, and it is a parts-and-support question to put to the surveyor.

The class prices it like this. The 21- and 22-foot bowriders on our powerboat shelf ask $19,900 to $55,500; this 28-footer asks $49,900 — small-boat money for a class-up hull. What the premium badge costs at this size is measurable: the 2016 Cobalt R7 at Sag Harbor is a foot shorter, a year newer, and $34,100 more:

Where the budget matters more than the year, the 2008 Sea Ray 260 Sundeck at Bradenton is the value door into the same class — two feet shorter, seven years older, $21,905 under this boat:

And the current restatement of the brief — the big bowrider rebuilt around outboards — is the 2019 Regal 29 OBX at Metairie, four years newer at $120,000; that is what this idea costs from a yard still open:

Against all three, the Rinker is the cheap seat at the big-bowrider table — this is the one to survey first: