sell it or keep it?

so here my question i'm really stuck between sell the motor boat and saveing up over the winter and then getting a sleepable sailboat. so should i sell the motor boat or keep it and work on the motor. would it be better off selling it now or would it be a lot of money to get it going and working right?

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DUDE.... how many of these threads are you going to start? Nobody can tell you what you need to do to make yourself happy..... If you like the boat and are willing to work on it then keep it.... If not then sell it as is for next to nothing. Get what YOU want.... Who cares what we all think is more fun

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why how much you think i could get for a chrysler with a great trailer and a brand new deck and wiring and a motor that need a little work

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Yeah you do make at least two of these threads a week. Just do what YOU would like and not everybody else would like. After all it is YOUR boat not any of ours.

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Shazam, SBL!! You go through a lifetime of boating in one summer. Reminds me of a young JB who went through 3 to 6 cars a year. I just had to try them all, and now.

Then I figured it out.You don't have to try everything right now. You have a lifetime to explore every possible boat and boating adventure, and believe me, a lifetime is a loooooooong time.

Slow down. Take the time to fully know and enjoy your powerboat. Then look into a real (sail) boat.

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smallboatlover said:

why how much you think i could get for a chrysler with a great trailer and a brand new deck and wiring and a motor that need a little work

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By the sounds of it not too much. Of course going by the info you gave us nobody can give you a price. But from your threads you post you don't seem to confident in the boat. Therefor I would say not much.

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Hard to say, A boat with a rotten transom and motor that doesn't run that someone put a helicoil in. Oh wait. there's more, NO TRAILER.

There is a expression, good money after bad, note the punctuation, and proper spelling.

The boat is not worth the fiberglass it's made out of................................................

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it need a heliocoil to run agian and the carbs to be cleaned. also it comes with trailer and all new wireing on the boat. i think i rather sail because sailing it about just sailing. i mean when your sailing theres no noise and it take you longer to get to were you wanna go but the fun part is getting there when a motor boat you get there fast as you can then don't know what to do. also on the motor boat i just take it out and cruise around doing nothing put through money into the gas can i think a sailboat to sleep on is what i want

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Will you sell just the motor off the boat? I am looking for a motor for my 15 ft runabout and i live in Rhode Island. Let me know if it's a good deal I might grab it.

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I'm going to take a, what, 15 year old's word that it just needs a helicoil. You beat that engine to death,and admitted to it in a public forum, .

The transom is done, per your pics of the iceburg in your bilge over the winter. The stringers and bulkheads are built so the boat will break in half at the first opportunity. If you sell that boat to anyone karma will pay you back.............You were given very good advice when restoring and decided that you knew better.

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stop focusing on your boats as investments or anything of value. They have NO value to anyone except you. but that's important. The pleasure you get out of running a boat you built or restored has no NADA Blue Book Craigslist iBoat value; it's immeasurable. you just can't bottle it and sell it.

But once you decide to let them go, you can't look at what you put into them; from dust they were formed and to dust they shall return.

My first car was a '68 Mustang I bought for $250. I soon learned that maintaining a classic car was not for the 19 year old student who worked summers. I had to face the reality that it only made sense to replace it with a generic car. Boats are like that. There is no improved position, and the costs are relentless.

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running a 2 stroke engine under load (and hard at that) that needs the carbs rebuilt starves it for oil and causes it to run lean both of which cause high cylinder temps and high rates of wear.... An old 60's 14' fg boat with an old engine and trailer is generally worth a few hundred if it has no problems at all.... The cheapest way to get it running at this point is likely to find another cheap old outboard although I would take $20 and 15 minutes to put a helicoil in it and then another 15 minutes to do a compression test.... If the numbers are bad then hope to sell the engine for enough to pay for the helicoil kit. The boat might net you another $50 or so and the trailer if it is nice then maybe a few hundred... If it is a ratty old 60's trailer with sloppy bearings and crap tires then maybe $100-$150

If the compression test is good and it really does just need the helicoil and the carbs fixed then fix the stinkin carbs..... probably get the same amount but you won't have to part it out.



Of course if the transom is junk as stated above then all you have is a trailer and a busted motor minus what the landfill charges you to dump the boat

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I think everyone who reads SBL's post should all send him $5 and hopefully he will buy a decent boat and not pollute this form with his "bad ideas".

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i like this guy thats a great idea

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the 1st year Saturday Night Live -Steve Martin had a skit called " Muck Jumper"
He would walk up to a Hillbilly's home and offer to jump into there cease pool for $5.
The Hillbillies would think he was crazy and pay him all the money they had- $5.

The "Muck Jumper" would jump in the cease pool- get covered in excrement--and sit in thier living room until they paid him $10!

SBL-I find reading your post interesting because who knows what might be next-- like looking at a car wreck.

My 1st boat was an Aluminum Jon boat that had been run over buy a Tug Boat--we beat out the dents and put a old crappy battery powered trolling motor on it--had fun with it untill ti caught on fire in the middle of the lake.

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Hey SBL-- in 3 more post YOU WILL Be an ENSIGN too!

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NOTICE tho that he didn't say 3 more threads..... stop brainstorming

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I know he is only 15 y/o, but I have decided to boycott his threads until he finally figures out where the *SHIFT* key is and when to use punctuation. I'm not expecting perfection, but trying to decipher his posts are giving me a headache.

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Fireman431 said:

I know he is only 15 y/o, but I have decided to boycott his threads until he finally figures out where the *SHIFT* key is and when to use punctuation. I'm not expecting perfection, but trying to decipher his posts are giving me a headache.

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Between the rotten transom, motor that needs a helicoil, carbs that need work, a trailer that nobody has any idea how bad it is, I'm going to say you could probably pay about $150 to someone to help you get rid of it.

Nobody cares how much money you put into a boat, it will never be worth that. Your boat is worth literally zero dollars.

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smallboatlover said:

it need a heliocoil to run agian and the carbs to be cleaned. also it comes with trailer and all new wireing on the boat. i think i rather sail because sailing it about just sailing. i mean when your sailing theres no noise and it take you longer to get to were you wanna go but the fun part is getting there when a motor boat you get there fast as you can then don't know what to do. also on the motor boat i just take it out and cruise around doing nothing put through money into the gas can i think a sailboat to sleep on is what i want

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then put em both on criagslist and try to get a larger sail boat.