Recent content by Yooper350

To my knowledge always a Florida boat. When not in use it the last few years it was partially covered, from the hardtop back. I did not try manually spinning the prop when it was in nuetral after running it so I'm not sure if it was free or not. It was one of the first salty boats I've looked...

Thanks everyone, I figured a survey would be the only way to get a definitive answer on the crack but I wanted to see what everyone had to say. Details on the boat are its a 1994 in Florida so I highly doubt the crack was caused from freeze damage which raises some concerns. Its a nice rig but...

I recently went and looked at a gulfstream. Boat hasn't been run much or at all in the last 3 years in a saltwater environment which scared me but when I was looking around the bilge I found a crack in the fiberglass that ran from the gunnel side of the starboard battery towards the center of...

The southern conditions certainly make me nervous about buying a boat from any warm climate. I'm just not familiar with it and I really don't know much about fiberglass boats. I grew up in aluminum boats hunting, fishing and playing and have worked on aluminum boats from 14 to 32ft but not...

Thanks everyone for all the info. I'm lining up a few gulfstreams to look at while we are on vacation in Florida because you really don't see many for sale in the midwest. Any things that I need to really inspect or problem things to watch out for?

What height are you with the hardtop? The particular gulfstream we are looking at has a hardtop with radar. Also what rating axles do you have on the trailer for your gulfstream? I'm used to pulling several 8'6" trailers and the gulfstream is only 9" wider but for some reason seems much...

Hello Everyone, been on the site a while reading and researching but first time posting. We are looking at a used Gulfstream for fishing the Great Lakes this coming year. We live 50 miles from the closest port we fish and around 70 miles from what I would call our home port. We also take a...