Anton
Member
HI all,
Don't post much but had a rare free moment for an update on the new boat. We upgraded (still keeping our 56 AT with the 57 Evinrude 10hp as a go-to boat as she is amazing). Been looking for a 16-20' semi V for 2 years now and stumbled across one the other day we had seen posts for but the owner kept getting cold feet and removing it... We drove down and called last minute with cash in hand. Managed to look her over and she looked good to us. He was saying transom is going as is floor but he was mistaken... stinky water below the floor and mold but Im guessing the tarps gave way this past Spring. We ended up with a 72 Starcraft Center Console, 18' with a 1986 Mercury 115 hp inline 6 (Tower of Power) and a nice roller trailer to boot. We drove it a couple hours home after airing tires and greasing hubs and my wife thought I was lying when I told her we paid $1,000 cash. Motor wasn't froze but wouldn't start. everything was nice n loose though. 2 weeks ago we went ahead and found the wiring issue (on the internal motor fuse -main one). 20 minutes on that I filled a tub with water, hit her 3 carbs with some starter fluid after fogging a tad and she fired right up leaving my son and I SHOCKED. Shut her down because we weren't getting water pump squirts (we are NEW to this boat motor style/type). We cleared any mud dauber nests and drove her to my buddy's dock and backed her in. Fired up and she was pumping. After about 10 minutes he says, "take her up river a bit and ring me if you have problems" so we took her out... Oh my word does she scoot lol. We ran her for 10-15 minutes not going over 3/4 throttle and brought her home (wow roller trailers make things easy!) We have now checked out bottom end, dumped and replaced the oil there, checked out impeller, have a rebuild kit already on standby etc. Got the bilge pump replaced, put in 2 new seats and only having issues with the wiring for running lights atm. The light work (I hard wire jumped em to check and traced but its goofy so i will dig for a schematic. Have a gifted lowrance x125 from a buddy we will mount after Thursdays short vacation up to the Northern NH border and already ordered a power panel, fuse blocks, some usb ports, new horn etc. Since this boat actually has a floor, seats n stuff we will have many projects with it including the floor eventually so I will try and post as we go along with her and learn (and will most likely ask a TON of questions to the community that helped us with our first boat, the Arkansas Traveler!
Don't post much but had a rare free moment for an update on the new boat. We upgraded (still keeping our 56 AT with the 57 Evinrude 10hp as a go-to boat as she is amazing). Been looking for a 16-20' semi V for 2 years now and stumbled across one the other day we had seen posts for but the owner kept getting cold feet and removing it... We drove down and called last minute with cash in hand. Managed to look her over and she looked good to us. He was saying transom is going as is floor but he was mistaken... stinky water below the floor and mold but Im guessing the tarps gave way this past Spring. We ended up with a 72 Starcraft Center Console, 18' with a 1986 Mercury 115 hp inline 6 (Tower of Power) and a nice roller trailer to boot. We drove it a couple hours home after airing tires and greasing hubs and my wife thought I was lying when I told her we paid $1,000 cash. Motor wasn't froze but wouldn't start. everything was nice n loose though. 2 weeks ago we went ahead and found the wiring issue (on the internal motor fuse -main one). 20 minutes on that I filled a tub with water, hit her 3 carbs with some starter fluid after fogging a tad and she fired right up leaving my son and I SHOCKED. Shut her down because we weren't getting water pump squirts (we are NEW to this boat motor style/type). We cleared any mud dauber nests and drove her to my buddy's dock and backed her in. Fired up and she was pumping. After about 10 minutes he says, "take her up river a bit and ring me if you have problems" so we took her out... Oh my word does she scoot lol. We ran her for 10-15 minutes not going over 3/4 throttle and brought her home (wow roller trailers make things easy!) We have now checked out bottom end, dumped and replaced the oil there, checked out impeller, have a rebuild kit already on standby etc. Got the bilge pump replaced, put in 2 new seats and only having issues with the wiring for running lights atm. The light work (I hard wire jumped em to check and traced but its goofy so i will dig for a schematic. Have a gifted lowrance x125 from a buddy we will mount after Thursdays short vacation up to the Northern NH border and already ordered a power panel, fuse blocks, some usb ports, new horn etc. Since this boat actually has a floor, seats n stuff we will have many projects with it including the floor eventually so I will try and post as we go along with her and learn (and will most likely ask a TON of questions to the community that helped us with our first boat, the Arkansas Traveler!
