Why are Whalers so hard to get in Canada?
So I’ve been trying to track down a late 90s/early 2000s small Dauntless 15 or 16 for the past year and it’s been an uphill battle. I realize the small Dauntless’s had a short production run and are kinda rare but it seems like they’re everywhere in the states. Up here in the North Pole however forget the one I want, Whalers in general seem to just straight up not exist with the exception of the Super Sport which seems to be fairly common in marinas.
I joined a facebook group for Whalers for sale and several of the exact boat I want seem to pop up every other day. There’s exactly two in the entirety of Canada currently and one is in Vancouver and someone has modified it heavily and put a motor on it that’s way too big for it and the other one is in Halifax and they want way too much money for it.
Frustratingly the only one I’ve ever even seen in real life is actually in my marina and the owner basically told me to go to hell when I asked if he’d ever consider selling it.
Is there some historical reason as to why Boston Whalers seem to be so rare up here? Or is it just a matter of less population meaning less people selling them? Obviously they sold them here, there’s a Boston Whaler dealer like 15 minutes from my house, but the used market for them seems nonexistent.