2013 Monterey Monterey 260 SCR — Eufaula, Oklahoma

A 2013 Monterey 260 SCR lying at Eufaula, Oklahoma, asking $71,999 through Pop Yachts. The 260 SCR was Monterey's entry into its own cruiser line — 27.5 ft overall on 8.5 ft of beam, drawn around a single sterndrive, with a mid-cabin berth tucked under the cockpit sole. The beam is the tell: 8.5 ft is a legal trailer width, and the model's idea was a cruiser you tow to the water rather than keep in a slip — which is how one comes to lie on an Oklahoma reservoir.

Two things to settle first. Our design record closes the 260 SCR run in 2012 — the yard carried the hull on under the Sport Yacht name — so a 2013 badged this way wants confirming with the broker. And we hold no second 260 SCR, so nothing in our own market benchmarks this ask.

What the shelf does place is the price. Every other cruiser we hold under thirty feet asks less, the nearest by $22,004, and the three that ask more are all 31 to 34 ft. The premium buys model years, not length. The cheaper half of this market lives on the cabin cruisers under $50k shelf.

That nearest boat is the 2008 Regal 2860 Window Express at Winthrop Harbor — two feet longer, five years older, $22,004 below:

Push $13,001 the other way instead and the comparison gets harder, because the 2018 Rinker 290 Express Cruiser at Miami is both newer and four feet longer:

If it is the yard you want rather than the size, Monterey's own tier up is the 330/340/355 Sport Yacht — a 2013 at Stillwater, same model year, seven feet longer:

None of those three follows you home behind a truck, which on this shelf is the 260 SCR's case — this is the one to survey first: