Mr.Stuart
Senior Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jul 18, 2007
- Messages
- 701
Hi,
this is my first post, and I just bought my first boat, it's a 1990 21 foot maxum, it looks to me to be in good shape, the interior is really clean, the cuddy cabin looks clean, but I'm still questioning the engine, it's got what I believe to be a mercruiser 4 cylinder, but it's got twin carbs on it and for the size of the boat, it just seems like a small engine, there is no dog house in the back, it has bench seat that goes all the way across the back and the engine sits in the back of the boat vertically instead of horizontally as in a car, and the out drive instead of coming off the back of the boat as it is with most boats, this one comes off the bottom of the boat, these may sound like stupid comments on a boat, but this is something I've never seen before and I have no idea what the engine is.
we did run the boat in the river today, and it did run ok, but a little ruff, and would die when shifting from neutral to forward or reverse, as we ran the boat, I had a guy on my cell phone from one of the local boat repair places coaching me as to what questions to ask, he seemed to think that the engine was a 190 horse 2 stroke 4 cylinder but wouldn't know until he looked at it, I did make an appointment to take it to the guy to have it tuned up on thursday, so I supose I'll know more then.
I did take my hand held GPS out with me and clocked the boat at 35 MPH wide open throttle so I'm guessing that's in the ball park for the engine, this boat hardly has any gauges, it does have a tach, an hour meter (hobbs meter) that shows 95 hours since new, and a speedometer that didn't work, and that's it other then an old fish finder that had seen better days, and a marine radio that looks new or close to it.
the guy I bought it from owned it for the last 4 years, but he was Russian and hard for me to understand, so we did have a communication barrier, and he has no idea from what I can tell what the engine is that's in the boat, he bought it from the original owner that was a retired guy in his 80's, and he sold it because he got to old to use the boat anymore.
I'm going to be full of questions on this thing, just not sure what to ask at the moment, but maybe this description is a good start as to identifying what I just bought. but for starters, I think it's lacking in gauges, for one, I'd think it should at the least have a temperature gauge and I'd like to ad one, there's certianly room for it in the instrument panel where's there's still blank spots for gauges that have never been installed.
thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings.
Stuart
this is my first post, and I just bought my first boat, it's a 1990 21 foot maxum, it looks to me to be in good shape, the interior is really clean, the cuddy cabin looks clean, but I'm still questioning the engine, it's got what I believe to be a mercruiser 4 cylinder, but it's got twin carbs on it and for the size of the boat, it just seems like a small engine, there is no dog house in the back, it has bench seat that goes all the way across the back and the engine sits in the back of the boat vertically instead of horizontally as in a car, and the out drive instead of coming off the back of the boat as it is with most boats, this one comes off the bottom of the boat, these may sound like stupid comments on a boat, but this is something I've never seen before and I have no idea what the engine is.
we did run the boat in the river today, and it did run ok, but a little ruff, and would die when shifting from neutral to forward or reverse, as we ran the boat, I had a guy on my cell phone from one of the local boat repair places coaching me as to what questions to ask, he seemed to think that the engine was a 190 horse 2 stroke 4 cylinder but wouldn't know until he looked at it, I did make an appointment to take it to the guy to have it tuned up on thursday, so I supose I'll know more then.
I did take my hand held GPS out with me and clocked the boat at 35 MPH wide open throttle so I'm guessing that's in the ball park for the engine, this boat hardly has any gauges, it does have a tach, an hour meter (hobbs meter) that shows 95 hours since new, and a speedometer that didn't work, and that's it other then an old fish finder that had seen better days, and a marine radio that looks new or close to it.
the guy I bought it from owned it for the last 4 years, but he was Russian and hard for me to understand, so we did have a communication barrier, and he has no idea from what I can tell what the engine is that's in the boat, he bought it from the original owner that was a retired guy in his 80's, and he sold it because he got to old to use the boat anymore.
I'm going to be full of questions on this thing, just not sure what to ask at the moment, but maybe this description is a good start as to identifying what I just bought. but for starters, I think it's lacking in gauges, for one, I'd think it should at the least have a temperature gauge and I'd like to ad one, there's certianly room for it in the instrument panel where's there's still blank spots for gauges that have never been installed.
thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings.
Stuart
anyways I was looking on your pictures, and noticed there was little oxidation on the gelcoating, when you have a free weekend, try color restore or oxidation remover, I bet that red will shine like a mirror, have fun, and welcome to the boating world
