It's really a disease...

[Fr. Frank]

So, after "selling" my '71 Seafari to a parishioner, (who asked me to keep it at the church, tells me to use it all I want, and has only used it himself one time), in early December I found and purchased an '88 18' Superfisherman CC, with the original '87 Mariner 115 inline 6 O/B on it. Been in storage for 16 years, except for a brief appearance on the water in 2007. Original hour-meter shows 159 hours.
Original owner had a stroke in 2002, passed away in 2009. Boat sat in an actual barn until the estate was settled. Grandson got the boat and went to get it running and balked at the estimated $1700 cost of cleaning the fuel tank, and the carbs, and repairing the rusted brakes on the trailer. Boat is in very, very good condition.
I pulled and cleaned the tank, bought complete carb kits including new idle jets, and am unsure if I'm even going to mess with the brakes, or just put new brakeless hubs on it.

Wait, here comes the good part...I have just been GIVEN my Seafari back. Merry Christmas!
I now once again have 4 boats.

It's a disease, I tell you...