Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

[Home Cookin']

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

"low hours" or specifcs like 100 hours on a 12 year old boat (equals 8 hours a year) does not mean a little used gem put in mothballs and kept like new. It's a boat owned by a non-boater, who either neglected it outright, or didn't know enough about them to preserve it. Boats need to be run to stay in shape. or the boat was such a dog that no one in his family, including himself, wanted to mess with it.

Only rarely do you find one that was "in mothballs" and in better shape for it (aka "barn queen" or "barn find.")

 

[tpenfield]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

"Just needs a tune-up" = I've been working on it for weeks and cannot figure out what is wrong with it.

 

[fishrdan]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

Ad: Just need a $25 part
Means: Junk part off CL will cost $25, new part will cost $250, repair at shop will cost $1000

Ad: tryhaul
Means: tri-hull

Ad: Trailer alone is worth the price
Means: The boat is worthless

Ad: Old boat for sale (and that's it)
Means: Fire up the truck and get over there ASAP!

 

[Silly Seville]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

The absolutely worst descriptor I have seen to date was the moron referring to an outdrive as a "rudder"!
I'm not kidding. I will find the ad and post it on the "Craigslist/TLC" thread for giggles.

 

[Drowned Rat]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

"Engine just had complete rebuild" = maybe a spark plug change at best.

 

[86 century]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

My favorite is new floors

Aka plywood thrown down over the old rotten deck.

 

[pullin]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

I'd forgotten about all the misspellings.

At one point I told a friend the next time I saw "anchor wench included" I was gonna email and ask for a picture of his wife.

 

[Blacksting]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

I'd forgotten about all the misspellings.

At one point I told a friend the next time I saw "anchor wench included" I was gonna email and ask for a picture of his wife.

lmfaooo,......hey guys dont be so quick to kill cl , cause everyone of those phrases came from 'professional' salesmen at some time or another . ie ; your local dealer . only now the general public jumped on the bandwagon .

 

[lexer440]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

Does 60kph on gps - yeah, behind a tow truck on highway.

 

[tpenfield]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

I'd forgotten about all the misspellings.

At one point I told a friend the next time I saw "anchor wench included" I was gonna email and ask for a picture of his wife.

Yup, depending on the situation, those anchor wenches can be deal closers.

 

[eavega]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

I love the ones that advertise "New deck just installed" - which means I threw down a sheet of 3/4" pressure treated plywood, cut it to shape, and ran screws into the mush that passed for a deck before.

Another gem is "Hull is in excellent shape" - which means The exterior gelcoat is oxidized but otherwise mostly intact. The interior, however, is probably full of leaves if not fully rooted and growing trees.

Rgds

 

[tallcanadian]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

Craigslist isn't popular here. Kijiji is what is used here. But the same thing as well. I like the ''boat does not leak''..The rest of it is rotten..lol.

 

[lexer440]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

And the guy that owns the boat that doesn't know what its called like "cadoratte bowryder" has never owned it, he's just selling it on.

 

[tallcanadian]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

Here is a boat that has been on Kijiji for 2 years now. He starts with 4500, goes to 4300, then takes it off. A few days later it's back on again. I'm not sure what the deal is with this guy. I mean besides asking to much for this boat....

http://halifax.kijiji.ca/c-ViewAd?A...ts&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email_alerts

 

[1stgenbird]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

Then there's the Christ Crafts and the Crystlers. And the ones with the bikini tops.

 

[bonz_d]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

My other favorite is I really need to sell this but I'm too lazy to take the cover off when I take pictures!

 

[lexer440]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

I'm not sure what the deal is with this guy. I mean besides asking to much for this boat....

says its only been in the water once, that was the day they found out....

 

[fishrdan]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

And the guy that owns the boat that doesn't know what its called like "cadoratte bowryder"

Or the person selling the ever elusive "bowelrider"

(I'm guessing someone had the **it scared out of them on that boat....)

[edit: correct typo, thanks tp]

 

[tpenfield]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

bowlrider . . . pronounced bowelrider. Enclosed head with vacuum flush included.

 

[tallcanadian]

Re: Rosetta Stone (Craigslist translation guide for used boats)

One of my biggest pet peeves is the spelling of trailer. I love it when it's boat, motor and trailor.