As if I don't have enough, I just bought another.  One that I thought I would never own and have cursed many times while fishing, a PONTOON boat.  A 2006 24' Bentley 240 Fish.  Very nice boat in great condition, other than the motor and has no trailer.  My neighbors daughter that I was rebuilding the 90hp Merc for that wound up having a junk block, and not enough money to fix it decided to get rid of it.  The marina she first took it to told her they would give her $1,200 for it, I jokingly said, shoot, I'll give you $1,500.  Got a text today saying she was selling it to me.  So, I just gave her dad a check for $1,500.  All I need to do now is find or build a trailer.  She kept it in a boat house on the lake and didn't have a trailer and the motor needs a block.  All of mine are either way too big, or not big enough.  I could see hanging a 300hp motor on it, and it's only rated for a 90hp.  Still think it was a pretty good deal.

If anyone has a block for a 2006 Merc 90, I could use one.

However, this helps me make up my mind to sell my 20' Javelin bass boat.  Any body around middle GA looking for a good deal on a bass boat, I know where ones is at.

You stole that!

 

Normally, when I buy a boat or used vehicle  it's a steal.  When you figure with a running motor, they are advertised from $11,000 to $14,000 with no trailers and some condition problems.  I figured I would be ok with the deal.

These are the kind of deals I get.

2004 VW Beetle Convertible, $200, cost me $700 to repair $4,500 value and wife's done put 10k miles on it.

2001 Silverado 2500HD, $800, good body, paint and interior but had sat for nine years. $600 to get it on the road, not counting tires.  $8,000 truck when done, been driving it four years.

I could keep listing but that's where being able to fix almost anything man made comes in handy.

That’s a great deal for sure. You’ve earned it though with as many folks as you’ve helped on here and in person. 
 

Does the Jav come with one of the way2slow modified outboards?

Nope! A stock 225 Ficht, that has had DFI Technologies go through and do their 50 something updates/upgrades on the ECU to get rid of those high rate of failures OMC had and all the injectors cleaned and calibrated by them.  Besides, most would probably prefer the fuel economy of the ficht on that size boat/motor.  It seems like you can ride forever on gas as long as you keep it in the 4,500 rpm range

Dang it! I kind of thought that was gonna be the answer to that question. 
 

Fuel economy is attractive for sure for a lot of folks.  If middle Georgia is anything like central KY I’d say you’ll have no problem moving it right now. Do you have it listed anywhere online yet?  

Nope!  Gotta decide if I want to try listing it now of next spring.  I think boat buy season is almost to it's end for this year. Plus my granddaughter advised me this past weekend, since she has changed jobs, she has her weekends free now so she do some bass fishing.

I have only had the boat in the water twice in the past two years, but I run it in the tank at least every two months for about 15 minutes on a small can of gas with SeaFoam added just to make sure it doesn't develop fuel problems from sitting.

I'm left handed and they had to do surgery on it a few years ago for the arthritis, to much die grinding in those boat motors, and since then I can't get my thumb up enough to use a bait caster and hate spinning reels, plus going by myself is no fun.  Add that to the fact that the lake nearest to me is 40 miles and I don't really know it and I don't like it because about all you are doing is fishing boat docks, hundreds of them.  Clarks Hill, the one I do like, and no boat docks is 95 miles so I pretty much have to stay overnight kinda takes some of the enjoyment out. 

So, if I sell it now, my granddaughter will have to fish out of the jon or a 17' Stratos that I let my brother keep.  He lives on that lake I don't like, and the 17' boat may or may not run since my brother used his pontoon more than the Stratos, so you never know if it's going to crank and run or not.

However, if someone walked up and put $5,000 in my hand tomorrow, it would be gone.  When I list it next spring, I will list it for more, but a serious $5,000 right now would have me saying by to it.

That sounds like a heck of a deal for someone. I would think the outboard alone is worth that. Whether or not it’s gotten the way2slow treatment,  it’s no doubt been well maintained and with the updates I’d imagine is gonna be dependable. I hate that your having issues with your thumb post surgery. Hopefully that improves. 
 

I hope you enjoy the new boat. I have a couple buddies with pontoons and they absolutely love them. 

Yea, the big bite is going to be a trailer.  I've probably got a motor I had forgotten about, I can stick on it.  I have a 3 cyl 70 Johnson I can put on if all else fails.  The motor has been under my shed for at least 8 years and had not been run for probably 5 years before that.  When I get the pontoon to my house, I will probably hang that motor on it, get it running and see how it checks out.  I also have a 1996, 130hp Johnson the needs a crankshaft I have never fixed because I've had not need for it, but now, might see if I can come up with a crankshaft reasonable, and see about building it. There are a couple of options that should be better than spending over $2,000 fixing that merc that was on it, unless I can come up with a good, used block at a reasonable price.  Plus, I also have a 96, Johnson 150 Faststrike I rebuilt for my son two years ago and it has been sitting on the back of his old boat, that has been in my yard for 10 years, (another story) that I might just take off it, and use it and tell him his storage fee ate up what he has in it. 

I did some research and the crazy thing is a 24' pontoon boat that the coast guard sticker rates as being able to  seat 17, has a dressed out weight of approx. 4,000 pounds and it's only rated for a 90 so definitely can't put one of my 3.0 Loopers on it. 

It's looking like whether I build or buy a used trailer if I can find one, it's going to cost me at least another $1,500.

Where was thread awhile back about a guy that has a bone yard of Merc engines cheap.

Might want to search,I believe last year.

Tom