Finally found a use for my little old JOHNSON.

[bradford]

You'd better turn out the lights and pretend you're not home when the cops show up 'cause you STOLE that thing!

I think the 19 is the best all around size. Is it the 1965 or 1980 model? Mines a 65.

[phatdaddy]

happy wife
happy life

good move ferm, still got a scallop killin machine

[THEFERMANATOR]

It's one of the 1965's. I would rather have the 1980, but for this price beggars can't be choosers. The boat origanally belonged to a friends dad who bought it to use on lake george, but he got alzheimer less than a month after buying it, and the family didn't trust him out alone on it, so it got parked for 7 years. When he passed his son got it(my friend) from the estate for $4K, and he went in partners with another friend expecting to use the boat alot between the two of them. The friend who got it used it once, so he sold his part to the other friend, and he used it twice, and his kids used it twice. So after it being used less than 10 times in 4 years, and having brought it to me 3 times to have the carbs cleaned out from sitting, he decided to get rid of it. She's a little dirty from sitting, but for this price I can do some scrubbing. Gotta get my taxes done tommorrow to make sure we can afford to buy it and wait for my jon boat to sell.

And I was wanting a bit bigger boat so I could go out off the beaches and troll for mackeral again. I didn't feel that comfortable doing it in a 16 foot flat bottom boat jon boat, so I haven't been in years.

[bradford]

I like the 1965 because it will fit in my back gate with no problems. The gate and space between the house and side fence is only 9 feet wide and I can back the skiff in the backyard with my 4Runner. The 1965 also trails a lot nicer behind your vehicle. The 1965 will be a whole lot more boat than your other one. Perfect for inshore or trolling off the beaches like you said.

Mine is stripped down right now. I removed the rear deck, console, and cooler seat. Gonna put in a custom, no frills, low profile console moved back about a foot, move the battery and fuel tank forward under the console, 31 inch wide leaning post, glass the new front deck to the hull, and glass in some pvc rigging tubes along side the the starboard gunnel. Gonna paint everything to match my V-20; Awlgrip oyster white on everything, with a light blue deck. Picked up a deal on a 2012 dealer demo inline 90 ETEC with hardly any hours and a warranty til 2022.

I love how shallow she will float, but never knew a 6 inch chop could be so bad.

[bgreene]

Good rig - plenty of power.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Well, the time has come. Put the ad up on CL tonight for it. I may be biased, but somebody is getting one HELL of a deal.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/psc/boa/4979181075.html

And this is about the easiest starting 2 stroke I have ever seen. And it's idling down to 400 in nuetral, drops to about 325 in gear. Will purr there all day long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSAv_...ature=youtu.be

[THEFERMANATOR]

Hopefully I have somebody coming in the morning for her. He said he wants her if it is what I described, so hopefully he's serious and not craigslisting me.

[bradford]

That's a clean rig there Ferm. Don't take any craigslist BS off anybody.

[phatdaddy]

it's amazing how stupid people are. i've got an ice machine i'm selling on cl. in the ad i state "machine not working, compressor will not start, will not make ice"

4 or 5 calls a day " Hey man, will that machine make ice?"

[THEFERMANATOR]

Well it sold tonight, but not on CL. My mom has been back and forth about buying it for almost a month now, told me Tuesday she didn't want it, then calls me up tonight and says she does and wrote me a check for it. Unfortunately I told her I would take $2200 for it to her which is roughly what I have in it, so that is all I got. Needless to say the guy who was going to be out in the morning was upset he missed it as it is really a nice boat for what it is.