This is not a direct reply, but the underlying mechanics of my experience will likely apply. Our first boat was a 20 year old 28 Bertram with...
Hi Liam. I got it from someone in the comp who also works in the industry. That said, it may not be 100% correct. In any event, the owner will be...
Update on this. It was a competition fishing day. It was a shocker of a day. Tide was running hard. The boat was being driven by someone who knew...
As an Australian who is/was hoping to ski in the US in January 2021, can I respectfully ask (from the current safety of Sydney) , that you find...
When you have been planning for months, motored up or down the coast in pretty crap conditions to get there, have a bunch guys who have also been...
They are going out of Port Stephens. The Shootout is one of the main marlin competitions for the season in NSW. Its a great spot with the...
Lovely boat for lakes and bays. Add wine, bread and cheese, and you are set for the afternoon.
A Sydney (Aust) perspective. After thinking about your comment and talking to friends in different industries (retail, medical, finance,...
Wise call - very few governments come to the table with clean hands. On a positive note, the darkening global clouds are driving down the cost of...
I'm with Beau on this - you are going to spend forever flushing the system, and then still tasting gas and or the cleaning agents. If your...
I have spent 30 minutes at 5am trying to work out why the port motor would not crank when i hit the key. Checking connections, batteries, all...
Do tell.........
Yep, having the wife and kids help usually adds to the chance of it going pear shaped. We used to fish a lot, so I got pretty handy at getting in...
So what are we thinking here restoration cost wise? $2,000 per engine for a respray, new plugs and retune; $10,000 to redo the hull and top...
I'd go with realistic, not generous. Its a 20 + year old boat. The list of items to fix will be long. You can either bite the bullet and...
....the more likely it is to get burglarized (although it's not a big problem anywhere here on L.I.). Burgled not burglarized! Colour not...
I"ll bet its going to take him a while to get comfortable backing a boat into a tight pen, especially on those windly days when you can't just...
I assume high speeds are a bigger selling point in the US because the waters are calmer in the Southern US? As was noted above, in Aust most...
I think he is having some fun with the pic!
Agree. Unless the person doing your prepurchase inspection totally misrepresented the state and repair of the engines, its probably not worth...
