The BMV trip should be to bad, will just take some time to get them both titled and apply for a HIN number, which is required now in Indiana. Both cylinders have around 100psi compression and he said that she was in the water last week before we got all the rain. He was selling it for a widow of one of his employees. She hasnt been in regular use since 2014. We have a few upgrades planned, new bow light, marine vhf radio, am/fm/cd radio, fishing rod holders. She will keep her classic lines and probably get repainted next year. He said he had the decking up and all the foam is new and she was very water tight but stern heavy. With the fuel, battery and that big engine in the back, she tends to ship a bit of water over the top if you stop to quick. I plan to add a second deep cycle to the exhisting starting battery, but will move them up in the bow in a box to keep them from shifting around. Motor needs all of its accents repainted, its all faded from years in the sun. I do plan to run some seafoam in the fuel to help loosen up the rings, you can smell stale fuel around the engine, so I know its been sitting. Not our first boat, my wife is from Erie, PA and when we lived out there, we had a 16' Larson deep V fiberglass boat with a 80hp Merc on the back. Good boat but the transom had cracked at one point, been reinforced but with the engine down 1 cylinder it was time to let it go. Sold it for what I paid for it and we got 4 good years of boating out of it. The 3rd cylinder of the inline 4 was dead, only had 60psi compression. It would die if you tried to idle thru no wake zones, had to go from neutral to a little above idle then back to neutral to nurse her thru the no wake zones. I kept the real nice Chris Craft style Perko bow light, and its gonna go on the Falcon. If by knee braces, you mean the brace from the keel to the transom, it looks like it has one, right in the middle. I will look again today as we plan to clean up the interior and I will put the muffs on the lower unit and get the engine started. He said it was real quiet for a older 2 stroke outboard. That would be nice as the Merc was noisy as heck at anything above idle. Mike and Michele T
