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[hevnbnd]

Like the title sound have a boat here that has not been started for the past 2 1/2 years. Spoke to the guy selling it and he has taken it to a local boat shop that is going to replace battery, rebuild carbs, change fuel, and several other things. Something like $800 worth of work. Boat has no external damage that I can tell and good compression as well. Anything else I should be looking for? He has said around 4k is what he is looking for, but I think I might can get it for $3500. This is my 1st boat ever. Mainly getting it to pull my 3 and 6 year old around the lake. Price seems fair, but I don't know much. Thoughts?

[bryckhaus]

Also take a look at the tunned pipe at the top of the motors they have round plugs that where welded on, the plugs are very thin they will corrode overtime and leak. I have the 98 thats the same as the 99. I traded my 99 honda cbr900rr with 45k miles worth about 2k for the boat and trailer in running condition took it for a run before trading. I rebuilt one set of carbs, changed both drive seals to the old style carrier and seal vs the carbon ring. Last season the accelerator pump was stuck, easy fix. I had to change the brushes in one of the starters. The prior owner had new impellers put in I just changed the wear rings.

[hevnbnd]

Well ended up not buying the boat. Guy took it to get winterized then texted me and said that he could not accept less than 6k now....

So still on the search. I have seen 05 boats go for 6500 should I be looking for a model with the two motors or one with one motor?

Anything wrong with the supercharged ones?

[RayJay]

I paid $6K for my 99 Speedster in 2010 (2 engines) and it was totally worth it.

I wanted 2 engines specifically so that if something goes wrong you can get to shore.

I already used that feature as the boat sucked up a rag that totally wrapped up in the impellor and shut down my left engine. I simply motored home on the other one, put it on the trailer, cut the rag out of the impeller and went back out to have a great day. Fantastic!

If I had just one engine the day would have been a write-off getting towed back home or worse having to paddle to shore for hours.

I can recommend dual engines whole heartedly.

If you can get a running well maintained 99 dual engine Speedster for under $5K then your doing good!

Super Chargers means higher compression and need premium fuel. I'd buy one but don't use low octane fuel and expect it to last.

Ray

Well ended up not buying the boat. Guy took it to get winterized then texted me and said that he could not accept less than 6k now....

So still on the search. I have seen 05 boats go for 6500 should I be looking for a model with the two motors or one with one motor?

Anything wrong with the supercharged ones?