Rescued 300 Marlin

[sneakattack]

Found an abandoned 2002 Marlin in February after getting our condo in NPR. Boat was left to rot at a marina in South Carolina and hadn’t been used in 5-6 years. It was literally so bad we didn’t even take before pictures because we were worried we might not be able to get her right. She has F225 yamahas and we replaced both dry exhaust housings, timing belts, both fuel pumps on one motor, fuel lines, had injectors pulled and sent off. New filters and plugs and painted both motors. New trim tab pump and replaced appx 90% of wire on boat. Put in 2 flush mounted Garmin 942xs with network expander. New xhd Radar and b150 thru hull transducer. New upholstery in cockpit and helm and had my mom (my dad is oceandansar on here) redo cabin upholstery. Fixed some dings and edge of hardtop and painted with new awlgrip. Woody waxed and deoxed the aluminum.Wet sanded, compounded and waxed entire hull ( fall project is to go back and strip it down and wet sand and buff again and may paint or wrap.) all the lids in the cockpit had chips and cracks so we had those fixed and re gelcoated. She about killed my dad and wore us out getting her shined up but she’s ready for water for the summer now.She’s not a 10 but she was about a 1 and a 1/2 when we got her.

 

[Stephnic]

Nice boat looks very clean. Good luck with her that is my dream boat.

 

[Ky Grady]

That is a awesome story. Cool find. Nice work, good to see it back on the water. Did you get it as a salvage title or clean title. Just curious as to the abandonment of the boat at the marina, if you obtained the title for it.

 

[sneakattack]

That is a awesome story. Cool find. Nice work, good to see it back on the water. Did you get it as a salvage title or clean title. Just curious as to the abandonment of the boat at the marina, if you obtained the title for it.

Wasn’t a salvage. When I say abandoned I mean that the guy had a 28 sailfish , this one and a 330 express all at the same time (yeah different tax bracket than most of us.). He basically just left this one at the marina to rot. It was clean title we actually probably paid a tad too much looking back but she’s catching fish.

 

[Ky Grady]

That is a awesome story. Cool find. Nice work, good to see it back on the water. Did you get it as a salvage title or clean title. Just curious as to the abandonment of the boat at the marina, if you obtained the title for it.

Wasn’t a salvage. When I say abandoned I mean that the guy had a 28 sailfish , this one and a 330 express all at the same time (yeah different tax bracket than most of us.). He basically just left this one at the marina to rot. It was clean title we actually probably paid a tad too much looking back but she’s catching fish.

You can't put a price on that!!! Memories while they are little and onboard having fun are priceless. Congrats!!! :goodjob

 

[hinmo]

Sweet! how was the Woody wax on the aluminum? - I need to do that ASAP