Mattleycrue76
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- Jun 10, 2010
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Hi,
I recently ran across a 14' Rendova RIB for sale on CL. The boat is a 1997 model and the motor is a 2003 Yamaha 50 HP 4 stroke. It has bench seating, a steering console with controls, depthsounder, trailer etc. The price was less then the value of the Motor alone, so I snapped it up. Now that I look at it I think I'd like to fix it up a bit to make it a good little boat to dive off of. The main issue is that the boat was used on a trailer that was rubbing where the fender wells touched the tube on the starboard side. The resulting hole was then patch in horrible fashion using what looks like some sort of inner tube patch. I can literally peel it of with my fingers. If I was able to replace the rub rail and patch that one spot the boat would both look and perform very well. Does anyone know where I can purchase a rub rail for this boat?
Also, I'm having trouble finding out much about Rendova boats. As best i can tell they were mainly higher end yacht tenders and could cost a pretty penny. Alos they appear to be out of business. Are they considered good boats? Any good info or sites that have info on them?
Sorry for the long winded post, thanks for reading!
BTW, the pictures were taken right after I got it. I've already gotten a different trailer that actually fits the boat.
I recently ran across a 14' Rendova RIB for sale on CL. The boat is a 1997 model and the motor is a 2003 Yamaha 50 HP 4 stroke. It has bench seating, a steering console with controls, depthsounder, trailer etc. The price was less then the value of the Motor alone, so I snapped it up. Now that I look at it I think I'd like to fix it up a bit to make it a good little boat to dive off of. The main issue is that the boat was used on a trailer that was rubbing where the fender wells touched the tube on the starboard side. The resulting hole was then patch in horrible fashion using what looks like some sort of inner tube patch. I can literally peel it of with my fingers. If I was able to replace the rub rail and patch that one spot the boat would both look and perform very well. Does anyone know where I can purchase a rub rail for this boat?
Also, I'm having trouble finding out much about Rendova boats. As best i can tell they were mainly higher end yacht tenders and could cost a pretty penny. Alos they appear to be out of business. Are they considered good boats? Any good info or sites that have info on them?
Sorry for the long winded post, thanks for reading!
BTW, the pictures were taken right after I got it. I've already gotten a different trailer that actually fits the boat.