Looking at a boat

[Bun-bun]

Herm, some marine motors are left hand motors. These are used in larger boats with twin engines so that the props turn in different directions, cancelling out any tendency to push the boat sideways as well as forward. These engines have exactly the same internals as right hand engines, they're just timed differently.
If you've bought a GM product with a 4-cyl, straight 6, or V-8 in it, you had a Mercruiser engine under the hood. Mercruiser, OMC(Bombardier, now), Marine power, etc, all use GM blocks for their motors. The only exception is Volvo.

[mitt]

For a first boat, I can think think of a lot better options for $3000...


26 years old - likely a lot of little problems

It is a big boat for "tooling" around

Like was mentioned, 4000lbs to pull it easy.

mitt

[herm]

nope.
i know the cummins is a good motor. but until ford trucks come off the assembly line with a cummins under the hood, its not for me. i personally try to avoid that kind of drastic after market conversion.

edit: and no....ford does not own cummins

[somegirl]

I'll ask him.

[mitt]

When I was younger I worked on boats, and generally Inboards and IO's  are automotive engines with marine parts (sometimes heads, intakes, pumps, and headers).

An older picky customer's marine chevy 305 had cracked heads and block, and we had explicit instructions to "not change a thing". Rather than fix it, we got a GM crate remanufactured 350 and dropped it in without telling him the displacement difference - he really thought the boat ran well after we were done with it.

mitt

[ducpainter]

nope.
i know the cummins is a good motor. but until ford trucks come off the assembly line with a cummins under the hood, its not for me. i personally try to avoid that kind of drastic after market conversion.

edit: and no....ford does not own cummins

they used to.

[herm]

they used to.

while it is true that they owned a small stake in shares at one point, it was never enough to come close to claiming "ownership." the rest is diesel truck mythology.

in fact, today you can purchase a brand new f650 with a cummins medium truck engine in it, stock. but unless dodge dumps cummins for an in house motor, there probably wont be any factory super duties with a cummins.

[herm]

Herm, some marine motors are left hand motors. These are used in larger boats with twin engines so that the props turn in different directions, cancelling out any tendency to push the boat sideways as well as forward. These engines have exactly the same internals as right hand engines, they're just timed differently.
If you've bought a GM product with a 4-cyl, straight 6, or V-8 in it, you had a Mercruiser engine under the hood. Mercruiser, OMC(Bombardier, now), Marine power, etc, all use GM blocks for their motors. The only exception is Volvo.

thats great info, but it takes away from the point (which was/is heavily influenced by personal opinion) that i was trying to illustrate.

[NAKID]

09 F150 FX4 with max tow package will be towing it. Didn't plan on slip rental, planned on storing it at my storage unit (outside).

I haven't even looked at the boat yet, but have been perusing CL in the past few days. It's just one I'm looking at.

The guy may be overstating the mileage, but he told me where he's been since the last fill up and it's considerably more than 30-40 miles and still had a 1/4 tank left.

I hadn't checked dealers because I didn't think there was anything they had in my pricerange, I'll look at the sites you mentioned.

This is the kind of input I'm looking for. Keep it up!

[cyrus buelton]

boats are money pits. 

[NAKID]

What isn't?

[cyrus buelton]

What isn't?

I could think of a lot of other things that aren't.

Based upon where you are living, you have a pretty short boating season. Personally, I'd only own a boat if I had full season access or a lake house which I lived on, where I could boat nightly if I wanted.

just my opinion....

Your boating season in CT is similar to mine here, as far as weather/water temperature.

Also, owning a boat = less leisure moto time.



more power to you if you get one........I'd love a boat, just not right now 

[NAKID]

Also, owning a boat = less leisure moto time.

True, but it also means more family time...

[cyrus buelton]

True, but it also means more family time...

[redxblack]

my retirement plan involves a houseboat.

Wake up, get some coffee and go fishing without leaving the kitchen.