BobM
04-20-2008, 01:29 am
My Wife and I are moving up from a Lancer 25. We put a 9.2A under deposit yesterday and have contacted a surveyor. I went over the boat, but didn't have time to do so throughly. I tapped the hull and deck and found a few suspect areas, but nothing too bad and not unexpected in a 1981. I'd appreciate any S2 specific comments I can get on what else to focus on. She has a 2GM15 Yanmar diesel. For those of you who responded to my earlier post on 1 cyl vs. 2 cyl, thanks for the advice...I took it at went with not only a 2 cyl, but the best boat I could find in the area. It never ceases to amaze me what a couple years of neglect on the hard will do to a boat. One boat was covered with a blue tarp that was shedding fragments to the wind like snow, yet the broker said the boat had only been on the hard a year...yeah right...that was the 1 cyl boat. Another boat had "a few blisters" on the topsides...that broker left out one word..."thousand"...the boat's top sides were 70% covered with little gel coat blisters...all for only $18K! The boat we are (fingers crossed until after the survey) buying was well kept and used last year and the difference was night and day. Thanks again, Bob