Not sure what ya meant there Bob...
Collateral? The boat is the collateral, right?
I just re-fi'd my truck with a local credit union. They were doing mailings to get customers, I responded, and they had car loans for 4.24% up to 60 months, up to 90% of nada retail.
I asked them about RV's and boats since I have one of each, and they were ready to meet what we had on the RV. Since it wasn't a savings we stayed with our other credit union. I think that rate is about 6.25. For boats they were right at about 6.5% for 12 to 15 years on the larger amounts.
I personally haven't seen any problems getting finance money if you have good credit. I was talking with a couple of the bigger RV dealers out here, we were looking at diesels, and they said no problem getting 7% for up to 20 years. The difference was they were not getting decent rates or terms for units older than '04, and were not able to pile on negative equity like they used to be able to do. They also said you need to show some down-down, at least 10%. Man, the prices were attractive!! But my current unit, a 2005 gas Winnie, has really taken a dump. :cry: We would prolly have to pay 20-30 grand to sell it. Guess we'll just hang on and use it.
Maybe it's different in different locales.