2018 Rinker Rinker 290 Express Cruiser — Miami, FL

A 2018 Rinker 290 EX at Miami, asking $85,000 through Pop Yachts — one of two brokerages carrying it. Rinker built plain-spoken family powerboats at Syracuse, Indiana from 1945, and the 290 Express Cruiser (2013–2019) was among the yard's last designs: Polaris bought the company in 2018 and wound the brand down soon after. This hull is from the model's second-to-last year — about as young as a Rinker gets.

The model's idea is economy of means: a slender nine-foot-beam hull drawn to run on a single sterndrive where most 31-foot cruisers carry twins, with the family weekend kit — mid-cabin double, standing head — compressed around it. Two honesty notes: we hold no sister 290 EX to benchmark the price against, and we have not surveyed this boat.

What the shelf does show is the trade $85,000 makes here. This is the newest boat in its company by five years, yet only two boats near it ask more; the same money elsewhere buys length instead of youth — the mid-2000s 34-to-39-footers around it ask $60,900–$116,999. It sits at the young end of the powerboat shelf, and is priced like it.

The yard's own counter-offer states the trade exactly: a 2006 Rinker 360 Express Cruiser at Bloomington, Indiana asks $2,500 less for eight more feet — and twelve more years:

If the extra length should come with a step up in build pedigree, the 2006 Formula 370 Super Sport at Stillwater asks $4,990 over the Rinker:

And where the instinct is the same idea one size down, a 2013 Monterey 260 SCR — from the year this Rinker's run began — asks $13,001 less:

But if the point is the youngest hull the money buys, nothing else here is within five years of it — this is the one to survey first: