I went in partners in on this boat. It’s a salvaged recovery that was involved in a fire. The boat next to it caught on fire. The people at the dock pulled the plug and pushed away the boat leaving it tied to a tree on the shore for a couple of days. Problem was when it needed to be plugged in for the bilge pump to run due to the outdrive being rotted out and leaking. So the boat sunk in about 4' of water. Well it ended up in a junk yard, the junk yard was full of motor homes. The owner of the junk yard defaulted on his lease and bailed out. So my buddy is a heavy equipment operator and dose a lot of salvage work was called in to salvage the yard & get rid of everything. So he purchased the boat for $50.00. Than there was a torched 30' Bayliner on a trailer that was to be removed. We basically smashed up the boat & threw it into a dumpster. Than refit the trailer to the houseboat. Since the pictures were taken everything has been striped off of the boat and we are working on the glass work. We found a new outdrive and am in process of rebuilding it for the boat. All of the interior will be painted & re-upholstery. It has the 4 cyl merc 175 hp in it. We are going to fire it up soon to see if it will get us through the season. Next season we will be putting a Cummings 6 cyl turbo diesel into it that we got out of a pusher coach that was salvaged.
Cool thing is it being on a trailer one week we can be on the Delta the next we can be in a lake.
Hopefully if everything goes well we are going to have a 4th of July party on it.
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