boomerang
Guru
This seems like a nice boat for 60k. What am I missing?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-42-Cu...630923?hash=item23a3d6fc8b:g:2P0AAOSws-tbJP7d
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-42-Cu...630923?hash=item23a3d6fc8b:g:2P0AAOSws-tbJP7d
based on the writeup...trim issues, temp fuel tank and water damage...5 years of neglect...
$60,000 sounds about right....probably plenty more to fix....
Plastic boat
Low hour engine
Looks clean enough
Cheap cheap
Are you there checking it out yet?
If not why not?
On what was done I question "handy and capable", eg entirely removing the transom. On the plus side, inspecting the fuel tanks could not be easier.Its nice to buy a boat that was owned by someone who was very handy and capable....but this might be a little too much. Its using a 5 gallon bucket for a fuel tank ???
Lost me at “I cut out the transom”..... but if you have time, skills and another $50k to put into it you’d have a boat worth $110k.
That transom removal is about the dumbest thing I ever heard of. Hadn't the guy ever heard of a thing called reserve buoyancy. Unless the whole back end of the cabin and cockpit can be made as strong and water tight as the original transom, this is a disaster waiting to happen. Run away, do not walk!
Transom out makes it so easy to board.
So many boats rejected by us simply because you have to climb up and over to get in.
Dangerous on a rough day, dangerous with provisions in hand, pita any other time.
Though I must admit a cutout would be preferable.
No shortage of performance sailboats with no transoms, they manage fine.
Boat hulls need bulkheads for torsional rigidity. Consider a shoe box. What a difference in rigidity with one of short sides removed. That is your hull with the transom completely cut out.