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Are you going to look at the boat or is it too far away to bother with the sellers attitude. It would be nice for you to be able to check it out, how far a drive is it?

Yeah sure a 27 year old boat - just go down look at it and write the check. The guy on crack or what?

Use a small plastic headed hammer tap lightly. I checked mine before I sent it off for repower, the sounds were very different and easy to discern. Good news about the 454. I had always heard good things, I love my 496. If that boat has the underwater deck drains check around them well. Mine...

Don't know much about the 454. Back in the late 90's when they stopped production of the Merc. 470 I was looking around for info on a future repower. One of my calls was to Grady and I spoke with someone there very familiar with the Sailfish models. I had asked about a 350 single in the Sailfish...

Not much feedback for you I see. If you do a search you should find some old threads about the Tigercat. There were a few in the last couple of years, you should find some helpful info in them.

That's the ticket!

That sucks keep looking, something will turn up. Can you negotiate the price down enough to accommodate a repower? Changing the engine should not be a big deal for you guys.

Offshore did you ever see one of those drives move up and down on the screws? Little electric motors everywhere. Way too many moving parts I think. When I repowered went from two I/Os to one. As it turned out my transom needed to be rebuilt but they had said that if the transom was good all...

Offshore, I was not recommending running the OMC just finding a good condition hull with that power and change it out. Raw material if you will. That would provide a larger pool of boats to look at, maybe. I would not buy an OMC, stringer or OMC's the more modern Merc, copy on a bet. In my area...

Everything working now? If so - Nice!

I would not worry about the I/O and the boat being in the water. I think the I/O in the water thing is way exaggerated. My original 470s lasted 23 years, my boat is in the water five months a year. The OMC stringers did have a lot of issues back the day but perhaps that was more design than...

When trouble shooting remember you need both Pos. and Neg. to make a device work. Make sure you have power going into and out of your switches and check at the negative that goes to that load. I would find it unusual for the wires in the headliner to go south. Never say never though. I'm...

I was curious how you made out too. As an aside are there any 241s up that way with the old OMC "stringer" I/O set up? You might be able to find a boat in better condition and just repower. A new Merc. 350 I/O would be reasonable and for you guys not too big a project. Then you are good to go...

This and what were the conditions like at the time of the incident.

Sounds good so far, when do you get to look at it again?

Well that is no fun. Let us know how you make out.

No problem Dennis hope that all helps. You are correct about the model names from what I can tell. My boat is a 25' Kingfisher which in '83 was a Sailfish with I/O power in '84 the 25's all became Sailfish just using the numerical designation to call out power type. In '84, looking at old...

I am trying to picture your boat layout. On my 25' IIRC the stringers were encapsulated before the liner went in but am thinking there must be some 80's era goop on top of them between the deck and stringer. If you remove the panel over the gas tank are the stringers at each side of the tank...

Yeah that does not sound like a prop then.

Altamira - are you local to the cape? Are you buying through a yard? Sent you a PM. If that engine is the vortech it would be sweet. I had one of those in a Suburban and It was very nice.