55' boat for $7,500.00

[SomeSailor]

Here ya go... on Craigslist... 55' for $7,500 and it runs :)

http://a.im.craigslist.org/lJ/PV/TkhXtaPXgl50KY57pd0YFCaXr5my.jpg

[Tedster]

Hey guys look at SS's next project boat! Ted :lol:

[Salmon Troller]

SS,
Excellent choice - you even have Ted's approval! That is one of the better ones that is on the Eagle Harbor "Street of Dreams - Parade of Boats". We anchored near the dock she is moored to over the Memorial Day weekend and admired many of the custom and unique craft on permanent display. All you need is a few gallons of your stripper, a buckt of whitewash, a dozen brushes and lot's of friends and she will look so good your Carver will be jealous.
Jim

[SomeSailor]

Like Ted's approval means more than a pile of rat turds to me.

My wife would shoot me if I even thought of buying an old fish tender. :) If you ever got it on blocks, it'd probably drain water for three months. :)

[Seapuppy]

yeah...but you'd be the envy of those meridian owners that ted knows!!! :lol:

[Tedster]

Easy there big guy, somewhere a "pile of rat turds" has to be valuable! Ted :lol:

[SomeSailor]

Well the old Thompson sold for $2125.00. And remember... that's with a 1957 35HP motor. My little Carver has a 100HP Electro-Shift :)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4557293168&category=63685&sspagename=WDVW

[coolchange]

I be thinkin this is Genes next boat! aaarrgh :argh

[Go Aweigh2452]

I'll bet this tub is like an iceburg... 3/4 of it is under water already!

[heymagic]

I'll buy half if SS buys the other half :lol: pretty safe bet ! I bet you couldn't even block that scow , the blocks would punch through the bottom.

[Randygh]

I wonder how old she is? Built in the '30's, 40's??

[SomeSailor]

Looks it. You'd think there'd be fittings on her worth that much. Problem is nowadays, you just can't take one out and scuttle them like the old days.

Heck... for only $7,500 she'd probably float for a few more years :)

I'd bet there's some interesting history though.

[heymagic]

Ya, they caught the owner of a marina in Tacoma scuttling boats last year. He would take the old non-pays out towards Brownsville and pull the plug . I heard 30 or 40 are sitting on the bottom. BIG STINK with the DOE....ain't no cure for dumb.

[Numbknots]

Now I know why Gene is extending the Shop behind the the Trawler???

Heck I darn near scuttled my Tolly last month by letting the water (cleaning the hose smell out of the City water) run into the shower/tub and then went to town, came back worked in the engine room for a couple hours only to eventually "hear water running" flew out of the E/R to find the hole aft stateroom flooded with clean "fresh Water and the cockpit/ aft bilge alarm just coming on!! Hell of a way to test the flow of your bildge pumps/alarm system.

Beauty of it it was fresh water ( so I sloshed some bildge cleaner in with it spent a couple hours scrubing and then pumped her dry and turned on the fans, opened everything up and now I have a great smelling dry bilge/boat!

The first thing the ADMIRAL said was the "Boat name fits" you would be one of the first to sink your boat in salt water with a "Fresh water Hose"

Ok now everyone can laugh with me :oops: :oops: :oops:

"Numb Kn(u)ts Tim

[heymagic]

Hello..Allstate ??

[Numbknots]

Do they have a darwin award for Boaters?

Tim