2021 Robalo Robalo R272 — Metairie, LA

A 2021 Robalo R272 at Metairie, Louisiana, asking $135,000 through Bent Marine. The R272 is a Georgia-built offshore console, drawn in 2019 and run to 2023 — 27.3 ft of hull on 9.5 ft of beam — and the yard's signature sits in the laminate rather than the styling: a Kevlar-reinforced hull carrying 23 degrees of deadrise to the transom, under a lifetime hull warranty. Reviewers of the type reach for the word overbuilt. The design idea is the offshore-and-family compromise: enough vee for a Gulf chop, enough bow seating to be worth a Saturday at anchor.

Two honesty notes. We hold no other R272, so there is no sister ship to benchmark this one against. And we carry no condition, engine-hours or days-on-market record for it — what follows is market position, not survey.

What the shelf does place is where $135,000 sits. Only two consoles we hold were built after this one, and they ask $169,990 and $189,900; every console within five feet of its length that asks less was built before 2019. The next-newest boat in that band is a year older than this Robalo and $31,700 dearer. It sits high on the powerboat shelf; the consoles under $100k are an older fleet.

The cheapest way to buy the same brief in the same water is the 2017 Sea Fox 288 Commander at Marrero, twenty minutes down the river:

For what the Gulf coast asks for more boat, the 2016 Sea Hunt Gamefish 30 at Pass Christian wants $10,000 over this one and is five years older:

And where the money runs up, the 2023 Wellcraft 302 Fisherman at Key Largo is the straight upgrade:

This is the only R272 on our shelf — the one to survey first: