1985 V20 Center Console Project For Sale

bsteckel

bsteckel

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It is with a heavy heart that I type this post. Due to many issues, I am selling my V. The boat is a 1985 Fisherman 20 that originally had a sea drive. That has been removed and the sea drive holes filled, faired, and primered. I had all of the bottom paint removed via soda blast and have painted the bottom of the hull up to about the stripe area white. The remainder of the outside of the boat had a few small scratches filled and primed, and was going to get painted the same as the bottom. The plans were for a stainless marine bracket with a 1989 2.0 mariner 150 (both of which will also be for sale). The boat sits on a 1989 Load Rite single axle galv trailer. trailer has been repainted, new hardware, u bolts, metal brake line, new double bow blocks, reflectors, has a power winch installed and comes with a new mast cylinder (not installed yet). The center console was removed, sanded and repainted and is in my garage covered up.

I am posting this to see if there is anyone who would be interested in taking over where I left off on this great boat. I live in the Pocono Mts. PA area, near the Pocono Raceway if you are NASCAR fan.

Along with the boat will be all of the items I have accumulated over the years for this project. They will be for sale as I have the time to dig things out and list them.

The boat and trailer need to go first as I need the room.

If you are seriously interested, let me know. I do not know what I have invested in it so far, and for my sanity I don't want to add it up. You can look at my old posts for pics, and I believe I have a gallery of what the boat looked like when I bought it.

If the above interests you, shoot me a message. Currently the boat is not listed for sale anywhere but here.

Hope you guys are killing the stripers !!!

Brad
 
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well, no replies yet, but a few views ...

what are these "projects" going for these days? Opinions welcomed. I think most of the hard work is done, but i guess it depends on how you look at it.

Isn't the fun part putting it all back together?? :nice:
 
if your serious about selling, your going to have put up some prices. if it were closer, i'd go have a look at it. all taken apart, i'd think your looking at $1200- $1500 for all of it.

course, i'm in north florida, prices up north will vary.
 
My V was a project, fresh stringers, gas tank and floor all glassed and done well but no paint on floor and a rock solid transom... no controls or motor and no wiring sitting on a very nice aluminum trailer.... it was advertised for a month on c/l as free boat, trailer $700... I said I'd take the boat but not the trailer and he said ok come get it....

YMMV as you have a lot of extras but there's one example for ya
 
thanks for the replies .. i did not want to scare anyone away from the boat project by pricing it right away .. i am aware that i have more invested than i am going to get out of it. I have to move the boat out of here, so i am open to offers. In my mind I was at the lower end of what phatdaddy posted. Most likely, the amount of the offer will dictate what parts go with the boat and which stay with me to be sold off separate.

Smoke, did you get that boat for free or $700 ??? Sounds like you stole it either way.

Unfortunately, free I can't do.
 
the fact that it's a full transom center console will add value. i would put the bracket and center console on the hull and sell with trailer, list the motor separate.
 
just need to find someone that was thinking of getting into a project like this. I would think that $1000 for the boat with the trailer would be a fair price at this point, no? the console of course would go with the boat. I would not include the bracket at this price though. Like I said, I have a ton of parts for this build .. new gauges, new alum trailer rims and tires, new fishmaster folding t top, etc ... boat goes first, then all the goodies.

the trailer alone has to be worth $400-$500 with the new parts on it I would imagine...

or then maybe i am clueless .. thats what my daughters say anyway :you:
 
Anyone want more info or care to make any kind of offer ? Kind of surprised, only 2 people replied ...thought there were more guys like me who like to put their own things together.


Boat has gotta go .. who knows what kind of deal we can make

Brad
 
Sounds like a good deal for someone. The only problem is having the right person come along at the right time. With all the stuff I sell it seems like I'll talk to 15-30 BSer's before the the guy who wants it comes along and buys everything for full price and is elated to have it. I know things on craigslist are slow near me right now, you might have to sit on her for a little while, but she'll go eventually.
 
Bradford .. I believe you are right. hopefully the right person comes along and the deal works for both of us.

Daydreamer .. Im going to see if the bracket needs to be a part of the boat to get it sold .. if it comes down to parting it out, I will let you know.

If anyone knows someone looking for a good boat project with some of the work done, send them my way. Looking to move this before the bad weather hits if at all possible.

Brad
 
I don't want to hurt your feelings but in it's current state and this time of the year... you would be hard pressed to give the boat away and the trailer while no doubt nice... well it's like selling a heavy coat in july... for the most part the only it will sell is if it's a ridiculously good price.... I might have had some interest in the hull if I could have somehow used it to better mine but just the fuel to pick it up would exceed what I'd pay and needing an expensive bracket to hang a motor will be a deal breaker for most people... USUALLY an older project boat and trailer can be bought for the value of the motor hanging on the back and sometimes less.

Some of your extras interest me but I highly doubt you want to let them go cheap enough to warrant the road trip and buying in the winter....

Your choices as I see them are A: finish your project and likely lose a little money when/if you sell it, or B: part it out and lose a LOT of money.

Sadly people will spend ridiculous amounts of money buying parts to fix up an old boat they already have but if the same boat is sitting in someone else's driveway it isn't worth spit.

If you have any hope at all of finishing it I'd say start bugging all your friends n relatives for a parking spot.

Just my .02 from years of messing with "old junk".

BTW another example, the 28' cruiser pictured in my sig was listed 3 times on ebay (had no engines or drives) without a buyer before I came along bought it for $543 and a few weeks later I bought another one that had sunk and been recovered but had good engines n drives for $600
 
Smoke ...you are correct ... i could not have picked a worse time to sell .. i guess i will try again in the spring. i have the bracket, etc ...

who knows .. by then i may change my mind.
 
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