26 pursuit

I think age may have something to do with that price, thoses look l9ike older Yamaha's on the back, it would be a good hull to start with, I had a 23 I/O boat that ended up being a bigger project than I wanted. Good thing is thoses boat had all glass stringers, no rot there( they did have wood transoms though)
 
They do look like the original 150 YAMAHAS, but they are still decent engines if they aren't rotted. PURSUITS are known for having good build quality and holding there resale value. That price really makes me wonder what's wrong with it.
 
a friend of mine had one of those. His hull/motors were newer, mid 90's I believe, and 200 yammies. That was one nice boat, fast too. I had it out one full moon night on the Great South bay doing 50.2 mph at 4900rpm. Put a lot of big bass on the deck of that boat. He paid around 48K for it and sold it three seasons later for 52K. Not to bad.....
 
Franco, Willy and I toured the Pursuit factory w/Franco's brother...he's the fiberglass guru there...REALLY impressed w/those boats...:clap:
 
THEFERMANATOR said:
If only I had the money right now, I'd yank this one up. Price seems to good to be true for a PURSUIT of this size and equipment.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/boa/1048691913.html
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I knew someone with the older twin 150 Yamaha's, they got 1.7 mpg on a 25 Grady White and were reliable, or so he claimed. That price sounds low, bring a soft mallet when you go and use it with the owners permission. New bottom paint can hide a world of trouble, looks like this bottom paint is worn so maybe you can see problems. I came close to buying a 25 Bertram w/o motors for $5 grand, it had a fresh coat of bottom paint. Thankfully I spotted a bent rudder and shaft in the weeds and found the boat had been dropped to dry land from slings. They had piled up the new blue bottom paint thick to cover the dents and 15' of crack down the keel.
 
THEFERMANATOR said:
I'm thinking that the boat market is getting pretty soft down here because these too good to be true deals are popping up every day.

Try finding one of these for under $20K running.
http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/boa/1040415072.html

Or this one that needs a fuel tank.
http://miami.craigslist.org/brw/boa/1032700855.html
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You are right, I've got to remember you're in Florida. We rode the bike to Key West in the spring of 05', could hardly watch the road for the beautiful water and beautiful boats. Could have stayed forever, except the only thing cheap down there is boats.....
 
Steplift 72' said:
I knew someone with the older twin 150 Yamaha's, they got 1.7 mpg on a 25 Grady White and were reliable, or so he claimed. That price sounds low, bring a soft mallet when you go and use it with the owners permission. New bottom paint can hide a world of trouble, looks like this bottom paint is worn so maybe you can see problems. I came close to buying a 25 Bertram w/o motors for $5 grand, it had a fresh coat of bottom paint. Thankfully I spotted a bent rudder and shaft in the weeds and found the boat had been dropped to dry land from slings. They had piled up the new blue bottom paint thick to cover the dents and 15' of crack down the keel.
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Ferm knows his boat and i don't think we need to tell him about the rubber or leather hammer deal with boats lol. I bet between Ferm and I bet we've beatin on almost every brand boat built lol
 
Skools Out said:
Ferm knows his boat and i don't think we need to tell him about the rubber or leather hammer deal with boats lol. I bet between Ferm and I bet we've beatin on almost every brand boat built lol
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I've looked at WAY to many boats personally, and seen WAY too many ways some people can patch them up to sell em. I prefer t stick to engine work as I HATE fiberglass work, and I'm not very good at it. Don't want to be good at it either. Fiberglassing aint for me, give me an old greesy engine any day over glass work.
 
Skools Out said:
i hear ya brother I like my fiberglass , grease coated motors and old steel cars.
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I'm with ya', but what's the deal with all the trailable boats and bottom paint. I have the same problem with bottom paint that I do with carpet. I always recall the old Bayliner saying that "CARPET CAN HIDE A MULTITUDE OF SINS". My thought is that bottom paint can also hide sins, just more serious. Hey, I'm a 1st hand almost victim to a bottom paint cover up, I don't get over that easily.
 
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