2016 Cobalt R7 — Sag Harbor, NY

A 2016 Cobalt R7 at Sag Harbor, NY, asking $84,000 through popsells.com — one of two brokers carrying her. Cobalt's signature is the up-market bowrider: the Kansas yard's reputation rides on fit-and-finish and on hulls built heavier than the class norm, and the R7 — its flagship 27-footer, produced 2014–2021 — carries both, a deep-V on a Kevlar-reinforced layup held to 8.5 ft of beam so the boat stays trailer-legal.

The model's brief was a dayboat that seats a crowd — fifteen people across 27.5 ft of hull — without giving up the ride of a proper deadrise. This example sits mid-run at 2016. Two honesty notes: the listing carries no condition detail and we have not surveyed her; and there is no sister R7 on our shelf, so the ask has no direct benchmark.

What the shelf does place is the position: at $84,000 this is the second-priciest of the eleven bowriders we hold — only one boat asks more — while the shelf's low-20-foot core trades between $20,000 and $55,500. The money here buys size and the yard. She sits on the powerboats ladder.

The nearest test of the Cobalt premium is in-house: a 2023 Cobalt 23SC at Branson, MO asks $78,500 — the same yard one size down, seven years newer, $5,500 less:

Where the instinct is more boat rather than newer boat, the 2012 Monterey 328 SS at Palm Beach Gardens buys five more feet for $4,100 less, paid for in four years of age:

And the straight upgrade is the one boat above her on this shelf — the 2019 Regal 29 OBX at Metairie, two feet longer, three years newer, outboard-powered, $36,000 more:

But if it is the R7's particular trade you want — a 27-footer with the yard's finish on a beam you can still trail — this is the one to survey first: