year one on a 2012 Albemarle 360 Express off rubi, real numbers

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albemarle_shaunaOP

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Ocean City MD

Dec 9, 2025 · 9:05 AM#1

desmonds Cabo thread got a bunch of us comparing notes so i said i would put our actual numbers up on the Albemarle. 2012 Albemarle 360 Express, twin Yanmar 6BY3-260 on straight shafts, 640 hours when we bought it, one owner out of the chesapeake. we bought it off rubiautosales.com last april and ran it 190 hours out of ocean city before we pulled it in november.

we went express instead of convertible on purpose. two of us fish it most weekends, i did not want to be climbing a ladder at three in the morning in a following sea, and the 360 gives up almost nothing in the cockpit for the trade. it is also a wet boat forward in a head sea and anyone shopping one should know that going in.

the rubi listing was straight with us. dead port trim tab actuator, crazing in the hardtop gelcoat, a shot halyard on the starboard rigger, and a windlass that ran slow. we asked for the service records and got a folder with every Yanmar service the owner had done at a dealer in deltaville, which is what sold me more than the photos did. our surveyor found one thing they had not already said, moisture at the transom transducer bedding, which every boat this age seems to have.

here is the honest first season, for anyone trying to build a budget instead of guessing at one.

Fuel (190 hours, trolling plus 26 knot runs)	$9,400
250 hour service on both Yanmars, mobile marine tech	$1,180
Spring haulout, two coats of ablative, zincs, gear paint	$3,050
Port trim tab actuator and pump seal (knew about it, priced it in)	$420
Slip at Ocean City, May through October	$4,200
Insurance, annual, with the offshore and named storm endorsements	$2,640

that is the year. nothing on that list is a repair except the trim tab, and we knew about the trim tab before we bid. we paid 218,000 and the brokers on the bay were asking 285 to 300 for 360s with the same hours and no service folder, so the spread went into the bottom job and the slip and we still came out ahead. buying off the rubi lot was the easiest boat purchase either of us has made.

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cat3126_ignacio

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Dec 9, 2025 · 2:22 PM#2

different animal from the Cats desmond has. the 6BY3 is a common rail block and what it wants above everything else is clean fuel. dual Racors, change them on a schedule and not when the boat starts stumbling, and put a vacuum gauge on the primaries so you can see a filter loading up before it ruins your afternoon at the canyon. injectors on that engine are not cheap and dirty fuel is how people find that out.

your service line looks right for both engines done properly. the impellers, the belts, the sea strainers and the gear oil are cheap, and the one people forget on a boat this age is the heat exchanger end caps. pull them, check the tubes, replace the gaskets, and you will not be chasing a temperature alarm in august.

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montauk_russ_71

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Dec 12, 2025 · 7:50 AM#3

640 hours on a 2012 is low and i want to say the unpopular thing about low hour diesels. they have their own set of problems. thirteen seasons and 640 hours means that boat averaged fifty hours a year, so it spent most of its life sitting, and sitting is what kills raw water pumps, exhaust elbows, hoses and anything rubber in the fuel system. your first season doing 190 hours is the best thing that has happened to those motors in a decade.

the flip side is you know exactly where it lived and it was not offshore in a chop every weekend. run it hard, get it up to temperature every trip, and keep doing what you did this year.

i have watched those rubi folks list a few boats up my way and the pattern people keep describing here matches what i saw, they put the ugly stuff in the listing instead of waiting for the surveyor to find it. that is not how most of the brokers on the east end operate.

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uscg_docs_renata

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Norfolk VA

Dec 21, 2025 · 11:09 AM#4

worth saying for anyone comparing this thread against desmonds, a state titled boat and a coast guard documented boat are two different transfers and yours was the easier version. title and bill of sale, the maryland excise tax at closing, and a new registration. no abstract, no mortgage satisfaction to chase, and the whole thing is usually done inside two weeks.

the one thing i tell people either way is confirm the hull identification number on the transom against the paperwork with your own eyes or your surveyors, before money moves. i have seen a digit typed wrong on a bill of sale hold up a registration for a month. rubi auto sent shauna photos of the plate and the transom before she asked, which is the correct way to do it.

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canyon_runner_jodi

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Jan 15, 2026 · 8:33 AM#5

the line people underestimate in your table is the slip. everybody budgets fuel and the bottom job and then gets a summer rate quote from a marina and has to go find another four grand. print shaunas table and take it to whoever handles the money in your house before you start bidding on anything.

on the boat itself, a 360 out of ocean city will reach the Baltimore comfortably and the Poor Mans on a decent day, and that is a lot of canyon for a 36 foot express. we run past ocean city all the time and i see those boats out there in weather they have no business being pretty in. good hull.

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albemarle_shaunaOP

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May 6, 2026 · 7:26 AM#6

UPDATE we splashed in april and have 40 more hours on her since, and the only new money out the door was a windlass motor at 680 installed, which finally quit exactly the way the listing warned it would. ignacio, we pulled the heat exchanger end caps at the spring service and the port side tubes were furred up more than i expected, so that was good advice at the right time.

for anyone finding this while they shop, my whole take is buy the boat with the folder. hours matter less than whether somebody kept the receipts and ran it. rubiautosales.com had the service history in hand, listed the faults before we asked, and let our surveyor take the boat for a day. that is all i want from anybody selling a used boat, and it is why i keep telling people in here about it.