[Scott]

Silverg
I know this must come across as rather negative ....but I'm really just trying to be realistic .... really don’t know what he is thinking ..... Especially telling you that the boat was purchased for $8,000 in running condition .... he has taken out the motor (which I'm too assume was running and was probably sold ) ripped out the floor and ... Now it sounds like exposed the foam to the elements ..... and you can have the headache now for $1,500 less than he paid... and again missing the motor, needing to reinstall the deck and now needing to do something with the wet foam ...
Are the "deck panels" getting all wet and soaking up water too....after all at the very least they will need to be fiberglassed back into place (at this point I would replace the core material) faired out, most likely the non-skid will be disrupted by the fiberglass work and will need some work, and then the inside repainted ... I'm sure you realize this is no weekend project [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

The console sounds like its going to need some crafty glass work .....Oh then you'll need to fix that big old hole in the transom!!!

What the shape of the fuel tank/tanks??

I say all of this, as before I purchased my boat I spent several hours poking around seeing what it was going to take to get it where I wanted it to be ultimately, and even at that, and having it professionally surveyed ( I have more about that also), I still find stuff that I didn’t see originally that I want to fix. Honestly I dont know what a surveyor would do with this hull...but maybe to give you a true value of what its worth in its condition.

Sooner or later it will sell and someone will be really happy with what they have …. But IMHO that’s a lot of money for its condition.

Again its all a matter of how much and how bad you want it.... And a little cash wouldn’t hurt either !!