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10-29-2009, 06:53 AM
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Hopeless
I found a '69 SeaCraft 19' bowrider up in Guntersville, Alabama with a stringer-mount OMC V8 with an early 800 series sterndrive. The 350 ci motor is not original, but an automotive motor with the marine manifolds bolted on according to the owner, who recently inherited the boat. It runs, but sounds like its got imminent rod bearing failure, according to a friend who went to see it for me.
The original windshield was replaced by a windshield from a closed-deck boat with no walk-through, so you have to duck under to reach the bow area. Steering is frozen, drive tilt is d.o.a., wiring is mostly rotted and eaten by rodents. Deck is firm as is the transom. The hull has not been wet in over 20 years, and white gel-coat is chalky, but almost completely unscratched and uncracked. The owner was asking $750 for the boat and trailer. I haven't got it. And this morning I learned the priest friend I asked to look at the boat bought it out from under me when I said I couldn't afford it right now. It's hopeless. I'm addicted to SeaCrafts.
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Common Sense is learning from your mistakes. Wisdom is learning from the other guy's mistakes. Fr. Frank says: Jesus liked fishing, too. He even walked on water to get to the boat! Currently without a SeaCraft  (2) Pompano 12' fishing kayaks '73 Cobia 18' prototype "Casting Skiff", 70hp Mercury 
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10-29-2009, 09:30 AM
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Re: Hopeless
Frank - Just remember you can only drive one boat at a time
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11-07-2009, 11:28 PM
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Re: Hopeless
THE next time I come across one for five hundred at a garage sale Ill pick it up for U...
Came across two this year.... One at a garage sale in this guys backyard had been sitting for years.. This is the kicker.. I would drive threw the old neighborhood in Boynton and THeir was one sitting in the front yard off Mentone Road.... I Thought it was a bowrider So I pulled over looked at it and it had all original seacraft insignias... Full of water and crap... HOLY @o#*#u i SCREAMED.. called police to file abandoned vessel report.. Told all my neighbors, thought I was freakin crazy.. Beautiful Hull... Heart BRKN Next day went to grab it... GONE>.......
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