One year of the Sea Ray 280 Sun Sport run, 1992–2000
1997
Sea Ray 280 Sun Sport value
A 1997 Sea Ray 280 Sun Sport is worth about £16,000€19,000$20,500 in today's asking prices, most likely between £13,500€16,000$16,500 and £22,500€27,000$29,500. Based on 11 comparable boats built between 1994 and 2000, 5 of them in 1997.
Likely range £13,500€16,000$16,500 – £22,500€27,000$29,500
5 boats built 1997 · 11 built 1994–2000 · listed since Nov 2020, in today's prices · any hours (typical 400 h) · every market alike · asking, not sold
The 1997 boats
Every Sea Ray 280 Sun Sport built in 1997 that we have observed since May 2022, cheapest first in today's prices. Derived facts only: no seller, no listing, month not day.
4 of 5 sit inside the likely range (hollow diamonds). Each boat is placed at its ask in today's prices and labelled with the price as asked and the month we saw it; a cut shows its size, and how long we have seen the boat listed so far. How we measure.
Either side of 1997
The rest of the run on the same scale, in today's asking prices. The bar is each year's middle half (from ten boats), the tick its median (from five). Years with a page of their own are linked.
The next three years
What keeping this boat costs in value, once the model has an age curve.
We don't carry this boat forward yet: the Sea Ray 280 Sun Sport has no published depreciation curve. A curve needs 20 boats across 6 build years; we have 12 boats across 5 build years.
Specification
What the listings say about the Sea Ray 280 Sun Sport: each figure is the median, or the most common value, of the boats that state it, unless a source is cited.
- Length overall
- 8.53 mfrom listings: median of 10
- Beam
- 2.90 mfrom listings: median of 8
- Draft
- 0.99 mfrom listings: median of 5
- Engines
- Twinfrom listings: 5 of 6
- Fuel
- Petrolfrom listings: 9 of 9
- Build years seen
- 1992–2000from listings: 12 boats
Questions about the 1997 Sea Ray 280 Sun Sport
How much is a 1997 Sea Ray 280 Sun Sport worth?
A 1997 Sea Ray 280 Sun Sport is worth about £16,000 in today's asking prices, most likely between £13,500 and £22,500. Based on 11 comparable boats built between 1994 and 2000, 5 of them in 1997.
What do 1997 Sea Ray 280 Sun Sport boats ask?
The 5 boats built in 1997 that we observed asked a median of £16,500 in today's prices. Each boat is counted once, at its latest asking price; these are asking prices, not sale prices.
Are these sold prices?
No. Every figure here is built from asking prices seen on public listings. Boats usually sell for less than they ask; we do not yet measure by how much, so we never print a sold price as ours.