Recent content by mirrocraft16

I was out on a buddies boat on Thursday, about for miles from the dock we pasted a marine patrol boat stuck on a dredge pipe. My buddy was just going to buzz by and wave but I made him stop and come around to check on the guy. I"m not sure if he thought he'd skim right over the tube or if he...

I don't doubt it was just that one club but when someone who's selling the very same model motor your asking about in half the shape for real money, then looks at yours and says it worthless, maybe a $20 parts motor at best, (1946 PO-15 that ran and was clean other than a patched fuel tube, and...

I went to a couple of their weekend meets a few years ago in hopes to find a few bits and pieces for a pair of mid 50's 10hp motors I had, but was told that most of their members were more into pre WW2 motors. I never went back. One guy there told me that the 50's and 60's motors were just 'old'...

that hull looks older than '72, by 72 they had begun to change up the laptstrake outer hull a bit. Starcraft changed their hulls quite a bit around 1965, and again after 1975 or so. Boats prior to 1972 didn't have a HIN on the right rear of the transom, but ALL boats in 1972 and newer had a 10...

I went through something similar when my one uncle passed years ago, he had what I'd call auction disease. He bought anything he felt was worth owning or that he felt looked clean enough to run. The problem was he had no mechanical ability himself and relied on buddies and a few shops to get...

Mine is a diesel, 6.0L Diesel with a single alternator. Some had twin alternators, but I heard even those have issues with burning up one of the two alternators. If these didn't have an issue there likely wouldn't be so many youtube vids and companies selling 3G high amp conversions for them...

This is really getting more and more common it seems. I trash picked a pair of 9.5 Johnny Rudes yesterday morning, one ran as found, the other has water in the lower unit and someone cut the rope and let the thing retract. Who ever owned the Johnson replaced every last bit of hardware with...

While probably too little too late, I saw this about Bass Pro Shops last week: Bass Pro - Rising Cost and Inflation Better financing isn't going to give people more money to spend. BPS relies on folks with disposable income, and that's rapidly become a thing of the past in recent years...

I hitched mine up, went to the ramp, saw it was low tide and no water, and they were dredging there so I went to the next ramp, it was closed, I went south to another ramp and it was full of jet skis and tubers lined up for half a mile trying to fight over two ramps with some idiot who got his...

I was thinking sears too but they had various manufacturers over the years, many were regional too. Around here they're mostly made by either Alumacraft or Lowe back in the day, with the alumacraft models being very thin and light, often with a ton of pin holes. (Fixable with a coat of Gluvit)...

Around here its more of the jet skis and tubers on the water, aluminum boats are fewer than ever. Dealers don't have them and didn't order many in because they didn't sell well last year. Used boats bring no buyers unless your selling it for way too cheap. Anything over $800 doesn't get any...

There's a ton of money there in parting those out, its trying to sell them whole, epecially not running that'll be a waste of time. I find two types of buyers, those that never and cannot work on their own motor, and likely buy only running motors and run them till they won't go any further and...

Over the past few years I'm seeing more and more things like this happen as the older generator goes away the younger crowd has no interest at all in the things their parents did or even the home they grew up in. I've answered many ads and cleaned out several places over the past few years where...

12x48 sounds awfully short for a cabin, or even two persons for that matter. If the max load is 400lbs, unless your under 100lbs, I don't see how its doable even without a cabin. You really don't ever want to run a boat at the max weight all the time, its a sure sign you don't have enough boat...

I'm not sure to congratulate you or feel sorry for you. It sounds like the makings of an instant junk yard. Around here my neighbors would throw a fit. They complain about my three boats in the back yard and my motorcycle trailer and car trailer. (And my camper, shed, and two trucks). While i...