I keep telling myself not to do this, but Saturday night my family and I were at the home of a co worker of hers, and their large, new home with the un finished yard. He had a nice early 80's Mako on a trailer and way in back was a V20 Steplift Wellcraft walk through with a patina of grime and the green mildew that grows on everything not moving here on the Georgia coast.
I asked if the Wellcraft preceeded the Mako in life, and he said it was one of those deals where he went in on it with a friend from an auction, and he started to put a 140 Johnson on it but has decided to hang the 140 on a Proline he owns, he said he'd take a hundred bucks for it- I started to pull out my wallet without even going near the thing as I saw it was on a really solid galvanized trailer and he said "you really want that thing? Take it! Get it out of my yard!" I asked if he had paperwork on the boat and trailer, he assured me he did-
So I will grab up my bud with his Bronco, grab the plate off my trailer and get it next Saturday before he changes his mind! I will try and get him to take a hundred bucks though!
Really, I am going to get the registration in my name to make things smoother, and put it up for sale- for the value of the trailer maybe $400 or so. Used trailers are like gold around here in the saltwater area and this baby is solid- but the boat must go with! I'll pressure wash the thing and see how bad the hull is too, didn't look too close but the chalk from the auction is still on the windshield listing it as a '73. I know that was a good hull, Wellcraft made a lot of them.
Two years ago I was working on a guy's older 36' Hatteras at his riverfront home, and noted new overhead type hoists for his bay boat and waverunners, the old ones laying in a pile- I was given them for the hauling - Craigslisted them for $300 the next day and found a very happy buyer, used the cash for something I needed!
I asked if the Wellcraft preceeded the Mako in life, and he said it was one of those deals where he went in on it with a friend from an auction, and he started to put a 140 Johnson on it but has decided to hang the 140 on a Proline he owns, he said he'd take a hundred bucks for it- I started to pull out my wallet without even going near the thing as I saw it was on a really solid galvanized trailer and he said "you really want that thing? Take it! Get it out of my yard!" I asked if he had paperwork on the boat and trailer, he assured me he did-
So I will grab up my bud with his Bronco, grab the plate off my trailer and get it next Saturday before he changes his mind! I will try and get him to take a hundred bucks though!
Really, I am going to get the registration in my name to make things smoother, and put it up for sale- for the value of the trailer maybe $400 or so. Used trailers are like gold around here in the saltwater area and this baby is solid- but the boat must go with! I'll pressure wash the thing and see how bad the hull is too, didn't look too close but the chalk from the auction is still on the windshield listing it as a '73. I know that was a good hull, Wellcraft made a lot of them.
Two years ago I was working on a guy's older 36' Hatteras at his riverfront home, and noted new overhead type hoists for his bay boat and waverunners, the old ones laying in a pile- I was given them for the hauling - Craigslisted them for $300 the next day and found a very happy buyer, used the cash for something I needed!
