Re: '87 Sportsman 1950 I/O value?
I looked at it yesterday and it looks like a 20+ year old boat. Most of it is still apart from having the carpet and SOME of the wood replaced. Its hard to tell which has and which hasn't been replaces. Most of the wood around the engine and transom is clearly old.
The bolts for the engine mount are very rusty, and all the screws are rusted. it appears there is ryst staining around the cooling hose connectors on the motor. Is this a bad sign or normal?
Upolstery is badly weathered/cracked. Owner says if the boat doesn't sell they were going to replace all the upholtery, which is why they haven't bolted anything back together.
I'm pretty doubtful the radio, shiptoshore, fish finder work.
So the good points: Hull seems to be in good shape (only thing I see is some siliconed screws/bolts going through the transom on the port side, probably where the depth sounder or something was previously locate), Engine itself looks good, prop/outdrive look ok and was solid with a good shake,
the carpet and new decking looks good and is very solid.
I'm weary of the boat because of its age, but the only other things I see in the 2-3K range are ~14' boats with 15hp outboards.
Any opinions?