Re: 2001 Chaparral 180SSE
Oh yeah I'd say so depending on the time of the year. I just don't and won't do projects as I don't have time for dealing with them and the hassle. I need bonified turn key and am willing to pay more for it. With the little time I have to boat, when I want to do it, I want to go not deal with issues. I have never had anything but as-intended functionality with my sig boat and have zero patience for issues. What you have going for you is that it is in the 2000's and to me in boat terms not terribly old like I would consider a car to be ancient at that age here in MN where it will be a rusty piece of junk if it were a car. It's a bit different paradigm with boats. As many people are satisfied with the performance and power of a 4 cylinder engine, I fall into the category of needing a v6 at minimum and so in the conditional tense, I would never buy a 4 cylinder I/O bowrider if it wasn't my third or fourth boat in the fleet. Many people are satisfied with less versus more power but many are not. You start going back into the 1990's where you will notice the older hull design with the high gunnel that many boats have and that's about where I draw the line with bowriders. The hulls started getting their updates in roughly the early 2000's then in the late 2000's they all got the next generation hull that you see now on new boats. That early to mid 2000's design then was used for the better part of a decade and so as in the case of chaparral, they used the 2001 patented hull design deployed for the 2002 model year up until right around 2009.
Oh yeah I'd say so depending on the time of the year. I just don't and won't do projects as I don't have time for dealing with them and the hassle. I need bonified turn key and am willing to pay more for it. With the little time I have to boat, when I want to do it, I want to go not deal with issues. I have never had anything but as-intended functionality with my sig boat and have zero patience for issues. What you have going for you is that it is in the 2000's and to me in boat terms not terribly old like I would consider a car to be ancient at that age here in MN where it will be a rusty piece of junk if it were a car. It's a bit different paradigm with boats. As many people are satisfied with the performance and power of a 4 cylinder engine, I fall into the category of needing a v6 at minimum and so in the conditional tense, I would never buy a 4 cylinder I/O bowrider if it wasn't my third or fourth boat in the fleet. Many people are satisfied with less versus more power but many are not. You start going back into the 1990's where you will notice the older hull design with the high gunnel that many boats have and that's about where I draw the line with bowriders. The hulls started getting their updates in roughly the early 2000's then in the late 2000's they all got the next generation hull that you see now on new boats. That early to mid 2000's design then was used for the better part of a decade and so as in the case of chaparral, they used the 2001 patented hull design deployed for the 2002 model year up until right around 2009.
Worst case is usually worse than you can imagine. Just make sure you have a few things figured out before you commit, like how you are going to get that motor out of there and what the complete list of parts are that you will be replacing. If the boat was abused then I wouldn't assume a long block is going to do it, count on starter, carb, alternator and everything else attached to it needing to be either rebuilt or replaced.