The Panhandle Masterpiece

2018 Custom Emerald Bay 36 — $215,000

For this week, we are hunting the most elusive, value-heavy boats on the water: The Custom Builds. Commissioning a bespoke boat is a terrible financial decision. It takes years, goes wildly over budget, and because it doesn’t have a mass-market brand name on the side, it depreciates like a falling rock.

But buying someone else’s custom build? That is the…