erwinner
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Aug 8, 2011
- Messages
- 369
I hereby humbly request admission to the Starmada. Remind me who I need to PM about the hat! Gotta have one now! Heck, I wanted one before, but I felt too guilty. Like wearing a H/D jacket and driving a Camry.
Many thanks to barato2 for posting the craigslist ad to jasoutside's thread! I would have never have found it without the post. This was the only picture on the listing that barato2 linked to back on 2/7
Didn't look like much, but thanks to this forum, I knew what a 21' Chieftain OB was.
The seller Jose, was great. He and his son helped my friend and I get her hitched, wired, strapped and even the hubs greased, before we even talked money/paperwork. He even gave me the grease gun and an extra tube of grease in case we had a problem on the road. We didn't. The tandem axle, full roller trailer is in great shape and the hubs never warmed up at all on our 320 mile return trip.
The boat is obviously 40 years old, but fortunately it's not all rotten.
The transom, of course, is shot. The deck is getting soft, and I am guessing there is a bunch of waterlogged foam underneath it. The support wood in the cabin is in surprisingly good condition! The aft wall of the cabin is rotten at the bottom and the seat boxes are in pretty poor shape, and not original. All glass is good except for the front two lower windshield pieces, which are plexiglass installed with a liberal application of sillycone.
The Tower of Power 115 supposedly ran last year. (Jose was nice, but I'll believe it when I see and hear it) and the steering is nice and smooth. The controls are there and intact, though disconnected from the motor... The battery is gone and I haven't even gotten around to seeing if the original tank was being used, or if there is a line going to a now missing portable tank.
I want to have it somewhat usable this season if possible, so my first courses of action will be A) using the thread here on reviving dormant outboards to see if I can get the Merc to fire and B) replacing the transom. Along with part A will be getting the electrical system to at least power the motor and whatever legal requirements that entails. (lights, horn, etc.)
All 3 lights are there as are the horns, and most everything else, so I'm very excited to get this going!
The TnT is partially there, but very not operational.
Fortunately the I6 Tower of Power really is good at being the Leverage of Power also. It's a heck of a lot easier to tilt by hand while standing then it is to tilt my 15hp Merc while sitting on the bench of my little boat!
Now onto some subpar quality pics from our phones.
You know who your true friends are when you can call and say, "want to drive your truck 13 hours round trip to pick up a boat with me tomorrow?" and they say yes.
That's him in the pic. Best friend a guy could ever ask for and the only guy that will ever be allowed to take this (or even my other) boat out without me. He's moving 6 hours South later this week and I'll be leaving this boat with him for periods of time without any second thoughts.
Many thanks to barato2 for posting the craigslist ad to jasoutside's thread! I would have never have found it without the post. This was the only picture on the listing that barato2 linked to back on 2/7
Didn't look like much, but thanks to this forum, I knew what a 21' Chieftain OB was.
The seller Jose, was great. He and his son helped my friend and I get her hitched, wired, strapped and even the hubs greased, before we even talked money/paperwork. He even gave me the grease gun and an extra tube of grease in case we had a problem on the road. We didn't. The tandem axle, full roller trailer is in great shape and the hubs never warmed up at all on our 320 mile return trip.
The boat is obviously 40 years old, but fortunately it's not all rotten.
The transom, of course, is shot. The deck is getting soft, and I am guessing there is a bunch of waterlogged foam underneath it. The support wood in the cabin is in surprisingly good condition! The aft wall of the cabin is rotten at the bottom and the seat boxes are in pretty poor shape, and not original. All glass is good except for the front two lower windshield pieces, which are plexiglass installed with a liberal application of sillycone.
The Tower of Power 115 supposedly ran last year. (Jose was nice, but I'll believe it when I see and hear it) and the steering is nice and smooth. The controls are there and intact, though disconnected from the motor... The battery is gone and I haven't even gotten around to seeing if the original tank was being used, or if there is a line going to a now missing portable tank.
I want to have it somewhat usable this season if possible, so my first courses of action will be A) using the thread here on reviving dormant outboards to see if I can get the Merc to fire and B) replacing the transom. Along with part A will be getting the electrical system to at least power the motor and whatever legal requirements that entails. (lights, horn, etc.)
All 3 lights are there as are the horns, and most everything else, so I'm very excited to get this going!
The TnT is partially there, but very not operational.
Fortunately the I6 Tower of Power really is good at being the Leverage of Power also. It's a heck of a lot easier to tilt by hand while standing then it is to tilt my 15hp Merc while sitting on the bench of my little boat!
Now onto some subpar quality pics from our phones.
You know who your true friends are when you can call and say, "want to drive your truck 13 hours round trip to pick up a boat with me tomorrow?" and they say yes.
That's him in the pic. Best friend a guy could ever ask for and the only guy that will ever be allowed to take this (or even my other) boat out without me. He's moving 6 hours South later this week and I'll be leaving this boat with him for periods of time without any second thoughts.
