But I sold the boat I originally bought when I moved south, well I actually bought another little 11ft tinny on a crappy unregistered trailer, swapped boats over so the little tinny was one the good trailer and sold the big boat on the dodgy trailer.
So I had a great little tinny one a great trailer only with a crappy little 2.3hp Evinrude 2 stroke.
So I went looking for a newer and bigger motor, I found one at a very reasonable price, only it came attached to another boat and trailer.
The boat was shocking, old bits of knocked up trays and attachments, painted in house paint that had gone fluffy and was covered in black mould and was rank, it had been sitting outside for 5 years, the motor however was in the shed and pristine, I'm mean immaculate, we mixed up some fuel and went to test it as it hadn't been run in ten years either, 1st pull and it roared into life.
Well that was monday, Tuesday I stripped the paint, stripped the old tacked on junk, I patched the screw holes and primed and painted it.
I mounted the little 2.3hp motor on it and gave it a test run today.
I only paid $900 for boat, 8hp motor and registered trailer, with the lityle 2.3hp motor I could easily get $1000 for it, and all it took was one days work and $80 in consumables.
But heres the two boats, the 10ft will make someone a good little fishing rig (No license or boat registration required in my state) and the 11ft with the 8hp is going to serve me very well.
On the water.
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The new 8hp in action.
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