Bayliner 215 Deck Boats For Sale

The Bayliner 215 deck boat arrived as an all-new model for 2013, built around research into how owners actually use a recreational day boat. It carries a length overall of 20 feet 7 inches, a beam of 8 feet 6 inches, an empty weight of 4,027 pounds, and a passenger capacity rated for 12 people. The wide, flared bow opens into a U-shaped seating area you can walk through, more like a pontoon than a conventional bowrider, with a fold-down deck that doubles as a casting platform. Whether you find a 2014 Bayliner 215 deck boat, a 2015 Bayliner 215 deck boat, a 2016 Bayliner 215 deck boat or a later 2019 Bayliner 215 deck boat for sale, the core layout and hull carry through the run.

Standard power is a 200-horsepower 4.5-liter MerCruiser MPI stern drive, with an optional 250-horsepower stern drive and an available higher-torque Bravo 3 outdrive for heavier loads; engine options reach up to 260 horsepower. One tested boat ran a 220-horsepower MerCruiser 4.3-liter with a 14.25 x 19 three-blade Black Max prop and reached a top speed of 45.7 mph at 5,000 RPM, burning 19.3 gallons per hour for a range of 117 miles. Best cruise came at 3,000 RPM and 26.3 mph, dropping fuel consumption to 6.45 gallons per hour and stretching range to 202 miles over 7 hours and 49 minutes with a 10% reserve. It planed in 3.8 seconds, hit 20 mph in 7.6 seconds and 30 mph in 11.3 seconds. The hull combines added deadrise, lifting strakes and the wider bow for a smoother, drier ride, and it leans about 12 degrees into turns with a stable, predictable feel in protected water.

Storage is a defining feature. The L-shaped cockpit seating hides a space sized for an off-the-shelf Rubbermaid-style tote you can pack at home and load aboard, while bow seats, an anchor locker and two foredeck compartments hold life jackets, ropes and fenders. An in-floor ski locker swallows wakeboards, and a 25-quart carry-on cooler fits inside the helm console. The forward cockpit measures 5 feet 11 inches between the bolsters and 2 feet 6 inches between the seats in the footwell. The port console offers dry storage or an optional porta-potty with 3 feet 6 inches of headroom, enough for children or quick changes.

The helm uses 3-in-1 gauges, tilt steering, a glovebox, an armrest for fine speed adjustments and a Bluetooth-capable waterproof marine stereo, with a flip-up bolster on the captain's seat to raise visibility. A single driver-side windscreen is standard, though most buyers add the full wraparound windshield for wind protection on colder days. At the stern, three-across aft-facing seating has flip-up backrests and reveals more storage, and the rear sun pad lifts for engine access aided by gas-assist struts. A hinged stern gate and step lead to a full-width swim platform with an optional extension that adds two feet of overall length and a starboard folding ladder angled away from the engine.

Entertaining details run throughout: an in-floor insulated cooler, a pullout shower, a wet storage compartment in the step that doubles as a cooler, and a fold-out cockpit table that deploys from the starboard bulwarks. The boat can be outfitted for watersports with the Flight Series package, including a collapsible wakeboard tower, or rigged for fishing with a bow deck filler, pedestal seat, trolling motor and fish finder. Bayliner backs it with a transferable warranty covering a limited lifetime structural hull warranty, a 10-year structural hull warranty to the second owner, a five-year deck warranty and one-year parts coverage. Sold as a boat-and-motor package, it pairs with a galvanized or painted tandem-axle swing-tongue trailer, making any Bayliner 215 deck boat for sale a roomy, affordable option among Bayliner deck boats for sale.