Brand new mid hp motor?

[RidgeRunner]

Holy smoke what a bargain. Just $38,500. On a serious note the last ones made had a full liner and a couple were carbon and kevlar, many rigged with towers.. Rare, only because there were so few built. Probably no more than 40 boats in all.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by RidgeRunner

Holy smoke what a bargain. Just $38,500. On a serious note the last ones made had a full liner and a couple were carbon and kevlar, many rigged with towers.. Rare, only because there were so few built. Probably no more than 40 boats in all.

This one has a tower. Says it was an 07, but wasn't finished out until 2013. Could have saved yourself a bunch of trouble and just bought this one finished out.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/boa/4662801292.html

[RidgeRunner]

That is a bunch of lettuce right there. Too fat for my wallet. I purchased in 1996 and gave $5400 for the boat and $2000 for the trailer. Rigged it with a used 90 hp for another $3k trolling motor $1k misc. rigging and I had about $12 k complete in 1996. I may spend that again refitting this old girl. Looking at $10k so far for: new 115 hp Merc, Trolling motor, depth finder/GPS combo, plus the misc. which always manages to break the budget.
I must say the rigging hardware that Mercury sent with their high dollar control box is nothing short of silly. It should be a 1/4"-20 size and they give a #8 screw and well nuts. Laughable. Then they give 40 feet of neutral safety switch wire and then I am looking at all the do-dads on this wire harness, holy. I need a computer geek and a Merc Master Tech. I wonder if the Geek Squad guys speak Mercury? It is all plug and play really, just finding a place to tie all the wires up is going to be interesting. I have zero hope for doing anything but a civil tie up job. Trying to make it look good would be time consuming while standing on your head under the way too small dash. I almost have a picture to share...

[phatdaddy]

ridge, what lower unit do you need, i have 3 and looking to move all of my merc stuff. put money down on a new 150 merc 4s, let me know and i'll meet you in perry.

[RidgeRunner]

It is a 3.0Liter Torquemaster 25" that I just burned up. None of the 2.5 stuff works on it. SEI has them with a warranty for around $1K. I actually have one in the shed already, it just has the wrong length driveshaft in it. Should not be too difficult a fix, I found a man that can weld up or replace the shaft to make it whatever length I need.
Not to shoot you down at all. I am always open to suggestions/ looking for spares, so if you have something let me know and thanks. Vic

[RidgeRunner]

UPDATE:

The one holding the purse strings is the only one seemingly interested in getting this project done. Today is the fire up the peons day. Time to get something done once and for all. Waiting on a dealer to order a couple of critical items. Like a junction box for the Smartcraft Gauges and a couple of control cables. Then I am still having shipping issues on another item or two. Either the dealer will get the stuff I need today or I will just order it online and have it tomorrow or the next day from boats.net or iboats.com.

This project began three weeks before Labor Day. This waiting around is making me stir crazy.

[THEFERMANATOR]

On a plus side, you didn't miss much for scallop season. Went out SUnday to the same area we went to last year, and between 2 of us in 3 hours only magaed about a gallon in the shell. We searched and searched, went out deep past the other boats, in shallow, on top of the other boats, but still ended up with next to nothing. Of course fishing is Chass wasn't much better. Saw LOTS of BIG fish, but none would take a lure. Only ended up with one 16 inch trout. We hooked into some ladyfish, but lost them all to some big trout. That was the worst was sight casting to some MONSTER trout, seeing come up and stare at whatever we through at them, but they wouldn't take a lure. Hook a ladyfish though, and lose it instantly to a trout. Saw one that had to have been 28 inches if he was an inch. Looked like a friggen snook with spots it was so thick. Or the big school of bull reds we drifted over that just stared at us.