loose rivet
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Jul 31, 2011
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Re: Sea Nymph 165TX Bass Boat
The problem is I can't buy another for that price. Everything around here is priced way over $7k for boats in worse shape or even worse yet, wood decked boats. There's an Alumacraft for sale with a Force motor for sale but it needs all new decks, the motor has a low cylinder, and the trailer is rusty. They want $5k, everything else I've seen is right around $7500, and still needing lots of work.
The problem is most of these in this area have been in the saltwater, this one hasn't. Add that to the fact its got all alumimum decking, and its not water logged from 20+ years outside in the weather, and I think its a keeper. Sure I'd like a big profit, but its not a profit if my search has to start all over again. I bought and sold off a deal 8 years ago, I bought an older, early 90's Starcraft Bass boat for $300, it looked like new but the transom was rotten, after seeing that it was going to take cutting the hull to get the wood out and replaced I opted to sell it and I let it go for $2400, I really wish I had kept it since I spent 8 years looking for another deal. The transom job would have been done and still been in use today if I had kept it. The boat I miss the most is my 1983 Grumman Champ, a 15' crappie boat with stick steer, that boat was indestructible I had a 35hp Yamaha on it that flew. The hull withstood all sorts of abuse, even the eventual 75hp motor I hung on it. I was younger then and certainly a bit abusive, that boat spent more time out of the water in mid air than in it, but it just took it and kept going. I sold it when my job moved me to another state. By that time the wood decks were starting to soften, the foam was holding some water, and the motor was tired, but the hull was fine. I'd own another one of those again in a heartbeat.
The problem is I can't buy another for that price. Everything around here is priced way over $7k for boats in worse shape or even worse yet, wood decked boats. There's an Alumacraft for sale with a Force motor for sale but it needs all new decks, the motor has a low cylinder, and the trailer is rusty. They want $5k, everything else I've seen is right around $7500, and still needing lots of work.
The problem is most of these in this area have been in the saltwater, this one hasn't. Add that to the fact its got all alumimum decking, and its not water logged from 20+ years outside in the weather, and I think its a keeper. Sure I'd like a big profit, but its not a profit if my search has to start all over again. I bought and sold off a deal 8 years ago, I bought an older, early 90's Starcraft Bass boat for $300, it looked like new but the transom was rotten, after seeing that it was going to take cutting the hull to get the wood out and replaced I opted to sell it and I let it go for $2400, I really wish I had kept it since I spent 8 years looking for another deal. The transom job would have been done and still been in use today if I had kept it. The boat I miss the most is my 1983 Grumman Champ, a 15' crappie boat with stick steer, that boat was indestructible I had a 35hp Yamaha on it that flew. The hull withstood all sorts of abuse, even the eventual 75hp motor I hung on it. I was younger then and certainly a bit abusive, that boat spent more time out of the water in mid air than in it, but it just took it and kept going. I sold it when my job moved me to another state. By that time the wood decks were starting to soften, the foam was holding some water, and the motor was tired, but the hull was fine. I'd own another one of those again in a heartbeat.
