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