My new ride!

Wind dog

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Hi all.
Meet my new ride, a 15.5' 1997 Valco Westcoaster with a 97 (I think) Honda 25hp 4 stroke and a EZ Loader galvanized trailer!
Amazingly enough I heard of this deal from my wife! She works with "my" bass player; the boat belonged to an old friend of "my" bass player. LOL I had to kid him about him asking her before me.
The boat was used for about five years & then sat for 6-7 years; I had to put in a impeller ($26.00 and 30min. of my time) because the original was toast from sitting so long. Also the 3 batteries that came with it are long dead. Besides that everything is immaculate!

I paid $1500.00.
 

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jigngrub

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Re: My new ride!

Nice boat and motor, and for that price you stole it.
 

lncoop

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Re: My new ride!

Way to go. I'm with jiggy. Ya done good.
 

JEBar

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Re: My new ride!

very nice .... that is the kind of deal that I hear about but never find ... congratulations

Jim
 

Alwhite00

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Re: My new ride!

Nice ride for the price, Good find.

LK
 

Wind dog

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Re: My new ride!

Thanks all, sometimes things work out even for me! I've been trolling CL for a while, never having the nerve to ask the Sarg (I know it's supposed to be Admiral but she's a sergeant in the Cal. Air National Guard) for any funds. So when the Sarg brought this up I almost fainted! The problem being 6 months ago I took a lesser paying job with the same company to get away from customer service, then last Monday I got a "bid" (a new job) that put me back almost to what I was making before, only no customer contact.
I'm glad she's aluminum (I've read to many rotten stringer / transom posts on here) I'm stoked to have a clean 4 stroke and she's basically a blank canvas, which means hours of tinker time!
 

NYBo

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Re: My new ride!

Wait, what? Your wife is aluminum??:eek:
 

Wind dog

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Re: My new ride!

LOL, Yep & her stringers will never rot! Nice transom too.
 
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