2023 Wellcraft Wellcraft 302 Fisherman — Key Largo, FL

A 2023 Wellcraft 302 Fisherman at Key Largo, Florida, asking $169,990 through Midwest Yacht Sales. The 302 tops the Fisherman center consoles Wellcraft has built since the line restarted under Beneteau ownership — in production from 2018, 30.17 ft of hull on 9.67 ft of beam, a 22-degree deep-V the type press credits with a fine entry and a long waterline rather than with deck acreage. The proportions are the design idea: a boat drawn lengthways to take a head sea offshore, not a wide platform for the sandbar.

Two honesty notes. We hold no second 302 Fisherman, so there is no sister ship to benchmark this ask against. And the year, kit and condition are the broker's account — one broker, no days-on-market — not ours.

What our shelf does place is the bracket. Of the ten comparable center consoles we hold, only two ask more, and only one of those is as new; the cheaper half of that fleet averages a 2009 hull. At $169,990 this is a top-of-market ask, and what it buys is the model year.

The closest read on the money is the 2020 Mako 284 at Destin — $3,290 under this boat for three more seasons and two feet less hull:

Spend $19,910 more and the 2023 Regulator 26 XO buys the same model year in four feet less boat: on our numbers, the dearest foot on this shelf.

Where the opposite instinct leads, Wellcraft's own 262 Fisherman is the same idea one size down: a 2018 example at Miami Beach asks $81,900, under half this price and squarely on the center consoles under $100k shelf, while the wider range sits on the powerboat shelf.

If it is a current-generation thirty you want, this is the one to survey first: