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  1. NEO56

    NEO56 Member

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    I'm sure I'm going to get in trouble over this thread as well...but I came across a boat tonight that is on one hand so funny....and yet so pathetic, I really don't know what to feel. It's listed on both Yatco and Yachtworld. The name of the boat is Wave Runner, it's a 63' Custom (and I'm using that term in the loosest possible way) Carolina. If you want a good laugh, and be scared all at the same time...check it out. And we've been bad Mouthing Azimut's! Is it me? Or what? I just had to share this with everyone here. I love the flooring in the engine room, and the wiring runs just boggle the mind. It was the price that made me look.
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    I'll leave answering this question to Jeff Foxworthy and the bunch! It should be renamed the "Orange Ruffy".

    Obviously a home built excuse of a boat, but you gotta give'em credit for them "retractable" consoles with a semi-hand finished finish or something. :)

    Good find.

    Cheers.
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    The engine room isn't too terribly bad. Simple, wiring and plumbing is actually secured somewhat. Looks better than a 2006 58' Davis SF I ran a few times several years ago. LOLOL You can actually access everything on the sides of the motors and the generator LOL..... but the engine room is too large, and salon, so then they couldn't make steps foward.....to the berth area's considering it doesn't look like any of that is finished.

    BUT, the engines being stuffed so far up into the salon floor, the salon hole to get foward to a pretty much unfinished boat..... the head in the one photo....PRE-owned series 60 with 7600 hours on them.....wow Not to mention the PVC Home Depot plumbing department shutoffs for the thru-hulls, also for the fittings on the sea strainers, WOW.
  4. NEO56

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    Yep. You'd have to put a gun to my head to get me aboard that boat, let alone actually go out into the ocean...one of my favorite photos's was the one where they took a jig saw and cut out one of the beams so the Walker Air Sep would fit.:eek:
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    Where is the link?
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    Thanks Alfred.
    Understand the various comments now. Seems a lot of money for a basic fishing machine. As good as the hull might be, that is all this boat is and all it was meant to be, a few seasons of hard work. Obvious when you see that they used rebuilt DD's for the power plants.
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    Barely basic, I guess confused the two terms "market value" and "sentimental value"! I feel they reached a point and said lets just get over with this, its taking too much time and money, you see how they copied some good stuff from other boats, but its put together with something that is not even stitch and glue.
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    This boat raises a lot of questions from the 7,600 hours on the motors to the weight listed as "Approximately" 45,000#. Then there's the (what looks like) a 2x8 support beam for the salon floor cut down to about 2x4 above the air sep, the wiring, ..................
    P.S. is anybody really building epoxy of wood plank new?
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    I don't know....but I do know that who ever built that boat ate up a lot of inventory at Home Depot!
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    that seems like an awfully light boat for a 63 ft SF. (45,000 lbs)

    An answer to the OP question, Would you buy this boat? answer: "No"

    However, I am not a professional charter Captain and owner/operator of a charter business in the outer banks.

    I have been on some of these north Carolina cold molded and plank on frame SFs as a charter customer in nasty conditions. (We were chasing winter Bluefin before it got popular) Generally, they are very capable and reliable even in severe conditions.
    It does seem a bit odd to have a plank on frame new construction. It must cost close, if not more than a cold molded or FRP molded hull.

    The boat is not a yacht or a traditional sportfish that is a hybrid luxury condo capable of doubling as a offshore war wagon.

    This boat is a work boat meant to take paying customers to the grounds and back.
    I do agree that several things in the photos need to be addressed.
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    There are hundreds of charter boats like this one in the Carolinas. The overall fit, finish, interior features, and construction including the use of running take out motors is not uncommon at all in these boats. Many are rougher than this one.
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    It is not common to use planks because finding clean air dried wood to harvest good planks from is so hard and costly, there are very few mills that specialize in such woods specially for boat building, and it is expensive, commonly referred to as "boat lumber".

    I feel they started well with the frames and carvel planking but then didn't care for details as small as making clean filets between joints in some places and the angle of the bridge ladder and how it sits, maybe like RER is saying, it is somewhat a common practice for boats meant as work boats rather than pleasure boats. Also, being a licensed fishing charters boat, it means it passed inspection, which is a plus for what we otherwise, (Me personally), think of as a sub-par build. I say so because I have seen many homebuilt wooden boats even in clinker planking that are far and far better than this. Who knows what the reality behind the build is.

    Cheers.
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    Sometimes fybridge access on charter boats is intentionally un-inviting because the crew likes it that way.
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    Yet another proof to the theory that what we don't like is probably meant to be like that.

    Now would it sell? The next owner would be interested in the chartering business or personal use? In other words, how is the market doing nowadays?
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    Well, I don't see how even a Captain owner/operator could make a living with a charter boat anymore. Between what they charge - all of the expenses which are through the roof.....
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    What you say is very true...I've personally seen both the back country, and offshore guides have dwindled by more than half down in the Keys. From Key Largo to Key West. I'm not talking about wannabe's, I'm talking about fishing legends going belly up. I doubt that they will ever return to their former strength. It's a very depressing thought.
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    I think the back country guys have it easier. They're charging as much as a SF almost, burning a few gallons of fuel and most of their bait is fake.....Plus the Captain is the only guy on the boat besides guests and the price of the boat is much less, as is the maintanence.
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    They do, but yet they still want to charge $500 bucks for a half day. The offshore guys were asking $1500 for a half day. Those days of crazy money are gone...plus after the Hurricanes went through a few years back...kinda chased away the "regular" tourists.
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    Considering how much it would cost me as an owner and operator of a private boat for a half day of off shore fishing; $1500 does not leave a lot of profit for a charter boat.
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