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Boat appraisals in New Hampshire for donations, insurance, estate tax, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises sailboats, motorboats, pontoon boats, fishing boats, and personal watercraft across New Hampshire, including Manchester, Concord, and Nashua.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT BOAT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, NEW HAMPSHIRE COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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Owner & CEO
Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Vehicle Appraiser
CAGA Certified Appraiser since 2014, covering vehicles, boats, equipment, fine art, and collectibles. A classic-car restoration background informs her vehicle work, with reports prepared for insurance, divorce, and charitable contributions.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
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The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises boats in New Hampshire for estates and probate inventories, for insurance schedules and claims, for charitable gifts and for marital property. A hull that spends five months a year on a lake and seven in a barn is a different asset from one that stays in salt water, and the sales we compare it to reflect that. Wooden classics, aluminum fishing boats and late model cruisers each have their own buyers here, and the report names the pool it drew from.
Lakes Region boats
Winter storage, limited running hours and fresh water leave a boat in better order than its age alone suggests. Documented layup, storage and spring launch records are worth real money when the boat sells, and their absence is just as visible in the figure.
Seacoast boats
Corrosion, bottom work and engine history drive the adjustments on a coastal hull. We price what the survey and the service file show rather than what the model implies, and a boat hauled every autumn reads very differently from one kept wet through the winter.
One figure is what a comparable vessel would cost to buy today. The other is what this one would fetch on a stated day. A report that does not say which question it answered is of little use to the person who asked it, so ours names the standard, the effective date and the market it read before it names a number.
Estates and gifts
Completed sales of comparable hulls on or near the date that governs, adjusted for hours, equipment and condition. An executor needs that date settled before anything else happens, because the asking prices visible today are not evidence of what the boat was worth then.
Policies and claims
Scheduling a vessel starts from the cost of an equivalent boat rigged the same way, which sits above what the same hull would bring in a private sale. A claim on a damaged or lost boat then comes back down to its condition at the moment of the loss.
Two figures attach to a New Hampshire vessel without anyone having appraised it: the fee charged to register it, and the bill a yard can enforce against it. Neither is evidence of what the boat is worth.
Boat fee
4 years old
is where New Hampshire’s boat fee chart stops falling, whatever the vessel is worth by then
RSA 72-A:2 imposes a boat fee on all boats except the exempt categories, which take in boats under ten feet, canoes, kayaks, rowboats, sailboats under twenty feet, sailboards, sailing canoes and commercial boats. RSA 72-A:3 then sets the fee from a chart: the row is the type of boat, its length range and its motor type, and the columns run new, one, two, three, and four years old or older. The minimum fee is ten dollars and the model year is the base year for age. Nothing in that chart asks what the hull is worth, so a well kept cruiser and a tired one of the same length and age pay the same and appraise nowhere near each other.
Yard liens
60 days
of unpaid storage lets a New Hampshire boatyard sell the vessel at public sale
RSA 450-A:1 gives the operator of a public boatyard or marine dealership a lien for proper storage, care and labor charges on a boat left with the owner’s consent, for as long as it stays in the operator’s possession. Under RSA 450-A:4, once those charges go unpaid for sixty days the lienholder in possession may sell the boat at public sale, with public notice and written notice to any holder of a filed security interest at least fourteen days ahead; proceeds pay the lien and the costs of sale, then the security interests, then the owner. RSA 450-A:5 handles an abandoned vessel on the same premises. A sale on those terms is a forced one, which is why its result and an open market value are two different numbers.
What clients say we are known for
Across 100+ published AppraiseItNow reviews the picture is consistent: every one is from a client who paid us for an appraisal, and the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how quickly we answer, and how much research is visible in the report.
I needed an appraisal for Probate Court so I could get the boat and motor title in my name. The AppraiseItNow team was great: quick turnaround, outstanding service. I would definitely use them again.
Boat Appraisal for Probate
I love the online appraisal format to give me a good idea of what my boat is worth without showing the boat. The appraisal fee is more than reasonable, and I love your professional service!
Boat Appraisal for Charitable Donation
We recently used AppraiseItNow for one of our clients and couldn’t be happier with the experience. The customer service was excellent, and Joe was quick to respond to all of our questions. He provided everything we needed promptly and made the process smooth from start to finish. Thank you!
Boat Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
AppraiseItNow delivered a fair, well-supported appraisal that met all required standards. Their team was professional, responsive, and fast throughout the process. I would gladly use them again.
Boat Appraisal for Charitable Donation
AppraiseItNow helped us appraise a very unique set of propulsion boats. Service was top notch and provided incredible value for the cost!
Boat Appraisal for Loan Collateral
AppraiseItNow was excellent to work with. They delivered exactly what I needed and were incredibly responsive throughout the process. I’d definitely recommend them!
Boat Appraisal for Insurance Claim
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
By comparing it to documented recent transactions for similar vessels, adjusted for age, size, propulsion, engine hours, condition, and equipment. Data comes from broker databases, auction results, sold-boat records such as BoatWizard's SoldBoats, and marine price guides including J.D. Power's NADA Marine guide and the ABOS Marine Blue Book, reconciled rather than taken from any single source.
Documented history and condition. Notable prior ownership, race results, rarity, quality of restoration versus originality, and demonstrated seaworthiness can all add value, but a professional appraisal only credits these factors when records substantiate them. Undocumented claims about a boat's past carry no weight with buyers, insurers, or courts.
Near the divorce decree or trial. New Hampshire divides marital property under equitable distribution rather than community property, and family courts generally treat the valuation date as the time of the decree or evidentiary hearing, so the appraisal should reflect contemporaneous fair market value rather than what the boat was worth at separation.
Not automatically. RSA 554:1 requires a full, itemized inventory of the decedent’s property within 90 days of appointment, but no appraiser is required for the listed values; the judge may appoint one when the nature of the property or the size of the estate makes it advisable. For a distinctive or high-value vessel, a professional valuation settles the question before it is asked.
