Any chance you can do a few basic checks before handing over the loot?
Join up wires ( make an untidy job of it ) check comp by pulling on cord , check spark and water in gearcase , but dont start it in front of seller ( if it goes the price might go up or he decides to keep it ). The idea is to make the seller think your a mechanical disaster and have little chance of getting it going, all the time your acting indecisive, then try and get the price down a bit.
Are you sure seller didnt cut the wires to stop you starting it and finding out its knackered, seen that sort of trickery before .
Here is the back story.
Finally about to marry off the last boy and even though he was around me from about age 9 up he never got into boating/fishing much. He lived with his daddy who is a rock crawler so that was way more cool than what step dad did until.....
Then... he met her.
Their first 'omg' s...ts getting real date she picked him up in her truck, drove the back way to the la,e so he was lost and once there she filled up the airmatteress in the back of the tru k, got out the heart shaped pan of sushi rolls, candles and coors...
Her family into boating (pontoon style) and n8ght time catfishing (and beer) so of course now so is he. He had found a 10 foot Jon with an ele tric motor for his jug fishing and I had an old 7.5 mercury I was not using so now he has that.
Saw an old 16 ft bayliner cuddy on marketplace and thought on the rare chance it was serviceable I'd see if that would work for a wedding present. At $2200 bucks and 'transon and most of the floor redone' I expected and saw exactly what it was. I do have to say the transom felt solid, no movement in the motor but did decline the offer of the hammer to tap. Jumped in and floor was soft everywhere stool him boat rotten and he'll be scrapping it soon.
Long story not short, told him might be interested in motor, he made and off, I'm thinking seriously about it as long as my checks pan out. Talked about how much he could get for trailer.
Young kid, sold his Jon boat to move up into this, think he is smart enough to learn his lesson quickly on this and discussing outs best he can.
Won't be hard to pretend I don't know what I doing and honestly atthis price point not worried about saving g a few bucks. I know he can use it more than me.
Mostly worried about nla parts or other know issues when I was thinking about an Opti that I posted about
