Hello everyone, my wife and i recently bought a boat. It is our first.
We purchased a 22' 1974 Slickcraft SS235, powered by a 350v8 with a mercruiser outdrive.
Ive read a few things about this boat and have heard that the hulls are high quality. We picked this one up for 1800. It has good and bad going for it. The trailer has 4 new tires and 4 new hubs. The outdrive was rebuilt not too long ago, and the wiring was redone about the same time. It has a newer depth finder and both the cover and bimini top are both in good shape, as is the upholstery. The bad is that it needs some deck wood, the trailer wiring at the hitch is butchered up, some of the snaps for the cover have pulled out. The engine needs manifold gaskets or manifolds, the cubby door is missing, and and a bunch of little things need fixing (30+ year old boat.)
I build transmissions for a living and ive been working on cars since highschool. I plan on doing all of the work myself, my neighbor who is 10x handier than i am offered to help out if he can come out on the boat, lol. Ive got 4 project cars and plan on selling the 87 Fiero GT i have to fund the boat project.
Yes i am new to boats and i have a million questions about props, deck wood, sterndrives, trimming, yadda yadda. Im looking forward to getting this boat back on the water.
-Rob
We purchased a 22' 1974 Slickcraft SS235, powered by a 350v8 with a mercruiser outdrive.
Ive read a few things about this boat and have heard that the hulls are high quality. We picked this one up for 1800. It has good and bad going for it. The trailer has 4 new tires and 4 new hubs. The outdrive was rebuilt not too long ago, and the wiring was redone about the same time. It has a newer depth finder and both the cover and bimini top are both in good shape, as is the upholstery. The bad is that it needs some deck wood, the trailer wiring at the hitch is butchered up, some of the snaps for the cover have pulled out. The engine needs manifold gaskets or manifolds, the cubby door is missing, and and a bunch of little things need fixing (30+ year old boat.)
I build transmissions for a living and ive been working on cars since highschool. I plan on doing all of the work myself, my neighbor who is 10x handier than i am offered to help out if he can come out on the boat, lol. Ive got 4 project cars and plan on selling the 87 Fiero GT i have to fund the boat project.
Yes i am new to boats and i have a million questions about props, deck wood, sterndrives, trimming, yadda yadda. Im looking forward to getting this boat back on the water.
-Rob
