Outboard size reccomendation for small speed boat?

[Mollers]

Originally Posted by rexfan10

Okay everybody,


Ive owned boats before...

Timewaster.

[chris.moody]

Originally Posted by Mollers

Timewaster.

Who let Mr Grumpy out ?

[jambo]

Originally Posted by chris.moody

Who let Mr Grumpy out ?

Got it in one Chris!!

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[rexfan10]

Originally Posted by Mollers

Timewaster.

I don't follow?

I've had a few sibs and know little about fibreglass boats so was seeing if it was worth my time. I apologize if I wasted yours or anybody else's time.

All the best.

[jambo]

Originally Posted by rexfan10

I don't follow? I've had a few sibs and know little about fibreglass boats so was seeing if it was worth my time. I apologize if I wasted yours or anybody else's time. All the best.

Hi Rex don't worry he is the resident grump. We all have varying amounts of knowledge but we still ask folks opinions. That's what forum about

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[chris.moody]

Originally Posted by rexfan10

I don't follow? I've had a few sibs and know little about fibreglass boats so was seeing if it was worth my time. I apologize if I wasted yours or anybody else's time. All the best.

Don't worry, mollers is just being a pratt, just ignore him.

[rexfan10]

Haha, ok :P

Thanks again for the help guys!

Rex

[chris.moody]

No problem and keep asking the questions, there is a wealth of knowledge on here.

[9D280]

Originally Posted by rexfan10

Okay everybody,
I must thank you for all your reccomendations on not to buy it. I think you will all be happy to here i didnt buy it :P

Curses! I was about to offer you a running 1972 Johnson 20Hp longshaft for £100!


Joking aside, have a look on the stirling cruise thread - you'll see the state of my rib. By the time I ever get round to finishing it I'd have been just as cheap buying a new / decent used one....BUT half the fun for me is in the refurb.

Ditto my engine. Paid peants for it. Then spent probably £1200 totally rebuilding it (rebore - the works) and yes, I could have bought a runner for that, but a) I had fun rebuilding it and b) I know it's history now so no surprises.


So, if you are in the mood for a restoration it's probably £40 well spent.


(and I do actually have an engine looking for a good home!)

[rexfan10]

Originally Posted by 9D280

Curses!

I was about to offer you a running 1972 Johnson 20Hp longshaft for £100!

Joking aside, it is a runner, but is a project, hence the price!

Well my friend who told me i should by the boat went and bought it himself, and apparently its in much better nick than the photo. A lot bigger than it looks to. And supposedly the transform is in good nick. This happens to me a lot though so oh well

When you say your outboard is a project mate, what is needing done to it? I am pretty interested since I lost out on an apparently good boat so im looking for something to keep me busy. Where abouts in Scotland are you?

All the best,
Rex

[HughN]

It looks like it started out red and has had several coats of paint over the gelcoat.

a) Take it to Dawlish and dump it. People would just assume it had got like that after being washed up in a storm

or

b) Two coats of cheap gloss and a load of compost and it would make a interesting nautically-themed flower planter for outside a pub next to a dockyard or fish-canning plant, where it can be used as a toilet by the resident Alsation and/or the punters. Add a couple of offcuts of decking and it would become a 'beer garden and children's play area'.

or

c) Drag it to the west coast, ring up the Daily Mail, whisper "...cannibal rat ship...", sit back and watch.

In fact, it looks like Mr Spock's coffin has re-entered the atmosphere without any retro-rockets. Pan the camera so only it and the landscape are visible and it could be a Federation "escape pod" in almost any episode of Blake's Seven.

Your mate will either be so cheesed off with repairing it that he'll sell it (at a loss) as an 'unfinished project' or use it twice and then sell it when he scares the heck out of himself / significant other.

These projects are like an Egyptian curse that can only be got rid of by passing it onto someone else - it will destroy your soul before it gets passed on.

Just out of interest, would you mate be the sort of chap who might consider making his own trailer to his own design?

[rexfan10]

Well considering he is 15, and very dyslexic ( ie. writing and drawing are almost out the equasion ) i doubt he'd design a trailer. However he lives next to the harbour and has many flatbed tractor/pick up trailers ( he lives on a farm ). He also already owns about 5 or 6 boats.

One being a 14ft flatacraft with 55hp outboard which he picked up, with morse etc. all ready for the water for £400. Now the cheeky sod is trying to sell it for £1600 ( he was asking £2500 at one point! ) He only got it so cheap as a very good long time family freind sold it to him. Now hes had it for 2 months, is bored and is trying to make a profit, which angers me, but its also none of my business.

Here are some of the boats he has for sale. They been for sale for months as he tends to over price anything. He says and I quote " Start the price too high and then you have lots of room for haggling" My response " You start to high and people arent even going to think about making you an offer. "

Ex life boat | Inverness | Gumtree

fishing boat 16 ft | Highland | Gumtree

fishing boat islander 19 | Highland | Gumtree

But yeh,
His plan is to throw paint and an old outboard on it and put it down to our local machinery mart. Things often go for crazy high and crazy low money there.

Rex

[fonzierib]

I bought what looked too be like a clean fletcher got from Glasgow last year, kept undercover and immaculate paint work! My budget of £500 vanished overnight and finally 6 months later with a 9.9 Suzuki to test the boat in water on back it ripped the transom clean off , I now had a dead outboard and destroyed boat. If these boats where good then they would be on the water not literally abandoned on a field, I couldn't get any genuine boat service to look at it , and the transom seemed solid, that was after the rest of the boat and wood members had been replaced! We all want to be on the water but it's best to save and be out there safely. Luckily my transom came off on a canal,


Regards
Scotti

[Nos4r2]

If he's 15, he probably has no clue what a knackered transom looks like.

[rexfan10]

Originally Posted by fonzierib

I bought what looked too be like a clean fletcher got from Glasgow last year, kept undercover and immaculate paint work! My budget of £500 vanished overnight and finally 6 months later with a 9.9 Suzuki to test the boat in water on back it ripped the transom clean off , I now had a dead outboard and destroyed boat. If these boats where good then they would be on the water not literally abandoned on a field, I couldn't get any genuine boat service to look at it , and the transom seemed solid, that was after the rest of the boat and wood members had been replaced! We all want to be on the water but it's best to save and be out there safely. Luckily my transom came off on a canal,


Regards
Scotti

Sorry to hear that mate,
Glad you are ok.
Quite thankfull I didnt buy the boat now :P

Rex

[Sunstreaker]

Transom can look ok from the outside but the marine ply can turn to compost, if transom goes often stringers gone, found that out the hard way too. It was a learning experience for me,I learned to never touch another project boat.

[Pikey Dave]

Originally Posted by rexfan10

..... and very dyslexic ( ie. writing and drawing are almost out the equasion ) i .............

Jaysus! where's Poly & his irony meter when you need him?

[rexfan10]

Originally Posted by Pikey Dave

Jaysus! where's Poly & his irony meter when you need him?

haha i know,
but he does seem to know quite a bit about boats Compared to me atleast lol.. Grew up around them and thats what most his family do so he gets plenty advice/help from them.

I think all that matters is that I didnt buy the thing, And if my freind needs to be taught a lesson the hard way, then so be it :P

Rex