So I bought a boat.

[galyonj]

Really, it was only a matter of time. When I got her talked into going with @TnRiver46 and me, we hadn't been underway but a few minutes before she hollered at me that "we need a boat." So it's really his fault. ?

 

So we talked about it for a while, and she started looking in earnest about a week before she sent me a link on Friday and said I needed to call about this one, cause we were gonna go look at it.

 

We found 1984 Ebbtide Dyna-Track 150 with an 89 Evinrude XP100, being sold by a guy that'd recently retired and kept himself busy buying, fixing up, and selling boats and RVs and stuff like that.

 

Came with two older Humminbird fish finders (a 4" PiranhaMax and a 100 series), a 12V Minn-Kota trolling motor, and he threw in a pair of pedestal seats. For $3500, I feel like we did okay. The hull and transom are solid, and the keel doesn't even look too bad considering she's a 37 year old from East Tennessee with a fiberglass hull.

 

I didn't really want a fiberglass hull, but for the price I couldn't make myself walk away.

 

Took her out for an hour or so this evening to shake everything down and see what happened. So far so good.

 

I need to get a charger for the trolling motor battery, fix a couple of the storage hatch locks, little stuff like that. Extended the trailer wiring a little bit to work better with the hitch on her Edge, which I'm pleased to report did a very good job towing.

 

 

 

 

 

[gunsinger]

Congrats on your find. I hope you get a lot of enjoyment out of it. 

[TnRiver46]

Congrats! I owe you lots of tinkering time if you ever have a problem, although I don’t think you like to ramp waterfalls like me . Cant wait to see some fish poop all over it 

[A-Jay]

Congrats on the New (To You) Rig ~ !

A-Jay

[galyonj]

38 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Congrats! I owe you lots of tinkering time if you ever have a problem, although I don’t think you like to ramp waterfalls like me . Cant wait to see some fish poop all over it 

 

Thanks bro! I don't think I've piloted a boat since I was a teenager, so I'm hoping my relearning experience goes fairly smoothly. I broke the transducer off the trolling motor last night, and in so doing I broke the mounting ears that were molded into the transducer body. So I gotta find my zip ties and rig up a fix.

 

I did run over a stick last night and, as I did so, said "This'n's for Rusty!"

 

12 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Congrats on the New (To You) Rig ~ !

A-Jay

 

Thankya sir! I like old stuff. Means somebody else took the depreciation hit for me.

[GaryH]

Great find. She looks great. Enjoy

[galyonj]

1 minute ago, GaryH said:

Great find. She looks great. Enjoy

 

Thank you! She needs a little love, but I've always kind of had a soft spot for the design language from this era of boatmaking.

[Deephaven]

Congrats

[Tennessee Boy]

Congratulations and enjoy

[slonezp]

Now the fun begins

[J Francho]

[TnRiver46]

28 minutes ago, J Francho said:

I got my flippy floppies

[J Francho]

I'm bringing roadwarrior and T-Pain as my partners. 

[Yakalong]

Enjoy 

[mcipinkie]

First thing that will save you lots of money:  It's an "it", not a "she".

 

"She's" are very costly.

[galyonj]

8 hours ago, mcipinkie said:

First thing that will save you lots of money:  It's an "it", not a "she".

 

"She's" are very costly.

 

I think there's probably a lot of truth in that.

[slonezp]

On 5/17/2021 at 7:13 PM, J Francho said:

I'm pretty sure I sent that music video to @A-Jay when he bought the Lund

[Biglittle8]

Nice boat! 

[galyonj]

Thanks! Two times out, two times back to the launch. So far so good.

[BassNJake]

Congrats!!

[E-rude dude]

Oldie but goodie?