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I hate to see a MA tore up and destroyed, as Bush mentioned plenty of cheap Seafari IO's around that need power. They didn't build many of those, so there kinda hard to find.
Because this will never happen, you will have 2 yrs and 2K in materials in before you think about a motor. Then you have to have the know how to try and put the motor in a boat it doesn't belong in.
You can get a pretty decent outboard for 3K or even less and actually get to use it someday.

I have one and don't have a clue where you plan to put the motor - I have 400lbs on the back and a 48 gal tank - another issue, where? - and if full its very noticeable on the scuppers

At some point you will give up and throw it away, as nobody else would want it or they would have built some. They built very few 23's as it was

There is a 20 for sale on here for 2900 that runs I'm pretty sure

BTW We had a 29 Penn Yan at the marina I worked for - couldn't give it away, terrible riding boat and who cares if it goes in 9" of water unless your flats fishing in Fla and then you better be on a trolling motor, hardly something to strive for.