The Loop Veteran
1987 Marine Trader Sundeck 43 - $75,000
If you want a boat that looks pretty at the dock, buy the Hinckley. If you want a boat that just finished a 6,000-mile combat tour of the American waterways, buy this.
This 43-foot “Sundeck” trawler isn’t a project boat. It isn’t a “potential looper.” It is a finisher. The owners just completed the Great Loop in November 2025. That one sentence is worth $20,000 in peace of mind.
Why? Because a boat that just swam from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico has been shaken down. The belts have been tightened, the filters changed, and the impellers swapped. It didn’t rot in a slip; it ran.
The “Sundeck” design gets a lot of hate from purists because it looks like a wedding cake. But step aboard, and you realize why they are popular: It’s a floating two-bedroom apartment. You get a full-beam master suite with a King-sized bed (yes, King), a real galley, and a covered back porch that is bigger than most Manhattan balconies.
