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MAKO® Boats Dealership & Sales in Sebring, FL

Saltwater center consoles and Pro Skiffs on US 27 South. Buy inland, fish the coast, and get your salt boat serviced without driving back to the water to do it.

McKibben Boating Center of Sebring is a MAKO® dealer at 7500 US Hwy 27 S, Sebring, FL 33876. We sell new MAKO saltwater boats, take trades, and service them, their outboards and their trailers in our own shop.

Buying a saltwater boat from an inland dealer sounds backwards until you think about it. Highlands County sits within a comfortable tow of both coasts. Charlotte Harbor, Boca Grande, Pine Island Sound and the Fort Myers area are a straightforward run west. The Stuart and Jupiter side is reachable east. Plenty of people here fish salt regularly and keep the boat at home on a trailer rather than paying for coastal storage.

Which raises the real advantage. Your boat gets serviced where you live, at inland rates, without competing for a slot at a busy coastal marina in season. You tow to the water when you want to fish and the boat lives in your yard the rest of the time. This page covers the MAKO range, what to think about for the water you will actually fish, and how to look after a salt boat properly.

New & Used MAKO® Boats for Sale in Sebring

Model and rigging availability change through the season. Use this as a guide to how the range is organised, then check live inventory or call for what is on the lot today.

Looking After a Salt Boat You Keep Inland

This is the part that decides whether your boat is worth anything in eight years, and trailering from inland actually gives you an advantage if you use it.

Flush the engine every single time. Not most times. Salt left in the cooling passages does its damage while the boat sits in your driveway all week, and a motor that gets flushed religiously will outlast an identical one that gets flushed when somebody remembers. It takes ten minutes at the ramp or at home.

Rinse the whole boat, not just the deck. Get under the console, into the hatches, around every fitting and along the rub rail. Then rinse the trailer thoroughly, especially the brakes, the leaf springs and the light connections, because a submerged trailer takes more salt than the boat does and gets rinsed far less often.

Check the sacrificial anodes on the outboard. They are cheap, they corrode so your engine does not, and replacing them on schedule is the least expensive insurance in boating. If yours look eaten away, they have been doing their job and they need replacing.

Our shop covers outboard service and repowers, corrosion inspection, anodes, raw water systems and pumps, electronics, steering and hydraulics, and trailer bearings, brakes and lights. If you fish salt regularly and never have the trailer looked at, that is the first thing to book.

Financing, Trades and Offers

Marine financing runs longer terms than vehicle loans, which changes what the monthly number looks like on a center console. Start an application online before you visit. Rate, term and approval depend on credit and are not guaranteed in advance.

Factory programs and rebates change through the year and carry end dates, so call and ask what is live on the model and rigging you want rather than relying on an older advertisement.

We take trades. Bring titles for the boat, motor and trailer, since Florida handles them separately. On a salt boat, corrosion history matters enormously to the appraisal, so a boat with documented flushing and anode replacement is worth meaningfully more than an identical one without.

Choosing a MAKO® When You Live Two Hours Inland

Be honest about how often you will tow

A boat that takes an hour of preparation and a two hour tow gets used less than one you can hitch up and go with. That argues for the smallest boat that genuinely does your fishing rather than the biggest you can afford. The most capable boat in the world is worthless sitting under a tarp because towing it feels like an expedition.

Decide inshore or offshore before you shop

These are different boats and trying to buy one that does both well usually means buying one that does neither properly. Inshore means shallow draft, easy poling or trolling motor work, and light towing. Offshore means deadrise, freeboard, fuel capacity and a boat you will not enjoy launching alone. Pick the fishing you will actually do most.

Check the ramps you will use

Coastal ramps in season are busy, and some have length and width constraints that make a bigger rig genuinely difficult. If you already know where you will launch, look at it with your intended boat in mind before you buy rather than discovering the problem on a Saturday morning in March.

Spend the money on the trailer

For a salt boat that lives inland, the trailer does more work than most owners appreciate and takes more punishment. Corrosion resistant construction, proper brakes and sealed lighting are not places to economise. This is the single most common regret we hear from people who bought a salt package elsewhere on price.

Florida requirements before you launch

Vessel registration is required, and Florida requires a boating safety education card for operators born on or after a specified date. Saltwater fishing licences and species regulations are separate from any of that and are administered by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, with seasons and limits that change. Check current rules before every trip rather than assuming last year's still apply.

Buying a used saltwater boat

Corrosion is the whole inspection. Look at the outboard's mounting hardware, the anodes, the wiring behind the console and every through-hull and fitting. Open the hatches and look for staining and salt residue in places rinsing would not reach. Check the transom, run every pump, and ask directly whether the engine was flushed after each use. On the trailer, look at the frame welds, the brake lines and the light wiring. Anything we take in trade is inspected before it goes on the lot.

Serving Inland Anglers Who Fish the Coast

Our lot on US 27 South in Sebring is central to a lot of Florida. The Gulf side around Charlotte Harbor, Boca Grande, Pine Island Sound and Fort Myers is a straightforward tow west, and the Atlantic side is reachable east.

We see customers from Avon Park, Lake Placid, Lorida, Frostproof, Wauchula, Arcadia, Okeechobee, Moore Haven and Clewiston, along with buyers from Lake Wales and Winter Haven who would rather buy and service inland than at the coast.

Call 863.465.2814 before a long drive and we will confirm the boat is still here and hold it for you.

MAKO® Questions We Get Asked

Written and reviewed by the sales and service team at McKibben Boating Center of Sebring.

Model availability, rigging, pricing and manufacturer programs change. Contact us at 863.465.2814 for current inventory, and confirm boating and saltwater fishing regulations with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Last reviewed: August 2026.

Buy it here, fish it at the coast

Come out to the lot on US 27 South in Sebring and tell us which coast and what you are chasing. That narrows the range quickly.