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[olibear]

hey there! i'm about as green as you can be when it comes to this stuff. never owned a boat and only have about 2 hours total under my belt driving a pontoon and jetski., but here i am wanting to buy a boat for me and the family. its just the 4 of us and the kids are under 8 years old right now, so i figure a seadoo challenger or similar might be a good starting point. i found a 1996 challenger in my area that is being sold for around 2k. i'm pretty mechanically inclined so i'm sure with a parts manual and some youtube videos, i can do most repairs myself. but the real question is, how do i test it? there isn't any body of water we could take it to to test out

[Kevin Leclair]

Welcome!

You can always hook it up to the hose to run the engine out of water. That will give you somewhat of any idea to how the engine(s) is running. It would be best to run it in the water but if that is not possible you will have to go with your gut.

Keep us posted.