This thread seemed a little off from right near the beginning.

I totally missed where he called ric a "sea - ray guy" - is that an insult or a compliment?

some one needs to post the video clip of Jack Nickelson stating ..."You can't Handle the Truth".....

You kill me!!!!!!!

Apparently we were not saying what he wanted to hear..... He wanted to hear.. Ohh ya thats a fine engine. easy rebuild. will last forever.. blah blah blah... nope he just took his ball and went home...... lol some one needs to post the video clip of Jack Nickelson stating ..."You can't Handle the Truth".....

Give him a break Guys, we were al new to boating once.

My first venture when I was 20 in the mid 1970s, a joint venture with my soon to be brother-in-law, bought after we'd been in the pub too long one afternoon; did not go down well with the females involved with us ! It was a clinker built timber 12' dingy with a "Seagull" outboard. Copious applications of GRP to (temporarily) replace the rotten timber, Looked lovely. Got as far as 7 miles from when it was launched once, to the Skerries, a region of fast tidal flow to the NW of Anglesey, UK; look it up on Google earth ! It just stopped, we had to row the whole way back, took over 9 hours as the current was against us for a good part of the time, even with coast hugging.

I went back to University in Autumn 1975; he swapped it for a 16' "speedboat" with no motor. Built of plywood on an oak frame, but with a hole in it. Mended that, but couldn't afford a big enough outboard to make it work. Sold for a break even price.

Got out of boating until 2000.

Then 13 years largely happy experience with Four Winns V8 powered Boats ( maybe 13 was a bad omen !). Then I bought a 2009 boat with no hull problems, but it has had issues with electronic units, wiring, shifting, trim, battery drain, trim tabs. Should I have known better ?