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After years of pounding the pavement, paddling kayaks and canoes, renting boats and hitching ride with friends I've finally taken the plunge! With our cars and credit cards all paid off, we are completely out of debt (besides our mortgage!) and I was able to negotiate some spending with the wife. As I'm sure most of you are aware, finding a used boat in this current market is crazy, but I got "lucky" and found a family selling their second boat at a price. It's a 1993 Sylvan Sea Monster side console with a 2000 40HP Yamaha outboard, and ready to fish! I'm the 3rd owner of the 15.5 footer, and the previous owners always kept in the the garage and provided all of the maintenance and purchase records since 1994. Looking forward to getting the whole family out on the water (which was a problem in a canoe). For anyone wondering how the negotiations went with the Mrs, she is getting a dog...a fair trade to bring my dream to a reality! I just got my hitch installed and will be bringing her home as soon as possible! She is neatly tucked away in @JonnyButts driveway and we are already counting down the days to musky season. Let the adventures begin!

I can use the bailer from the boat, no? Thanks everyone! Feels like a lottery win for sure. I had been looking for a few months and there aren't a lot of great options unless I wanted to pay over $7500 which wasn't going to happen (unlesss I wanted 20HP and less). The seller said he had 40 people contact them within the first few hours, and even though I offered to buy it unseen (they had posted lots of photos), they said I had to go in person. I got there as another guy was viewing the boat and I started chatting with the owner about fishing and found out he has a place on Lake Nipissing (which I visited years ago at Lakeair during an OFC trip, so we had a great chat). The other guy, who didn't look away from his phone (Facetime) and didn't even say hello when he arrived made a low ball offer, and the owner looked at me and said "You want to buy a boat?" of course I said "Absolutely, I would like nothing more than to own this boat!" and he told the other guy "Sorry, it's sold." One of the happiest moment in my life, I felt a connection to this boat the moment I laid eyes on it, and the Yammy is exactly what I wanted!

Phhh found a boat with a yammy at a price that isn’t way too astronomically high...you won the lottery pal. enjoy your summer fishing it, and next year at this time you can commence dreaming about your next 19 foot boat, and so on lol

This just showed up on my FB feed, a small battery made to look like a larger one, country of manufacture ? LOL

I really doubt the lockdowns or whatever buzz word they want too call it is lifted the Friday before May 24 weekend.

And buying a boat should feel much like buying a house, when you see it you simply know it’s the one from the get go, If you are humming and hawing...go find a different boat

Lol dog for the wife...ya ok, that’s why my current dog cash, was originally my ex girlfriends lol

Looks like a reall nice ride and getting a dog for your wife wasn't a bad deal either 😉

awesome! congrats on the first boat she is a beaut!

Besides all the fishing gear, now you have to go find one of those pooper scooper things.

You were able to find a nice boat with a Yammy in THIS covid climate???? very good score, great looking boat...congrats and enjoy

LOL..you can give the shore spots away now that you have a boat

Thats a solid ride. Congrats dude.

sweet looking ride, congrats Make her get a JRT

That’s awesome man! Been reading your posts for Eons, really looking forward to seeing what you can do with a boat. Congrats, that’s pretty much exactly what I want. Problem is we already have 2 dogs.. maybe some day.

Congrat's........she is a beauty!

I think if you lock the small motor to go strait ahead you can steer with the bigger one.

On ctv news Barrie the grey bruce medical officer say almost exactly what I wrote and he is opening boat ramps in his area but not marinas

What should have been the maximum restriction was that you can only fish or golf alone. Many would be happy with that.

I won't go into any details but a company I've been involved with decided to merge with another company and there would be some surplus funds that would be split evenly with some of us. It was estimated we'd receive about $2600 each so it was rather nice this morning to receive word that rather than $2600 it was gonna be nearly $37,000. As mentioned above, it's a nice way to start my day 🙂

Another in the same thread in my radio hobbyist group. Really is buyer beware out there