On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:22:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 7:05:25 PM UTC-5, Alex wrote:
Tim wrote:
10:49 AMJohn H
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Speaking of Guzzis, you forgot the photo of your backrest/luggage carrier you were going to send me.
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Odd, for some reason gmail had it stuck In "Drafts"

You should have it now...


Like my starter? The check it ready to go. Just need to fill in the
amount!

No worries - it's a backup anyway...

Oh MY! forgot to get it out the door. it's ready to go and was the day I got it. stupid of me to forget it.. Im sorry about that. You should have calledd me. anyhow, asap....

Yeah, Alex. It's your own damn fault!

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:12:45 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:

John H Wrote in message:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:20:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 10/10/2017 11:47 AM, John H wrote:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:34:28 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 10/10/2017 7:14 AM, John H wrote:
On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 20:35:02 -0400, Alex wrote:

True North wrote:
On Sunday, 8 October 2017 12:50:06 UTC-3, John H wrote:
On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 23:10:23 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 21:32:01 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:


As far as can be told here, your "expertise" in boating is limited to
buying non-collectible firearms from a Ruger auction site. I'm not a fan
of I/O's for several reasons, but I've seen - literally - thousands of
boats of all sizes out on the ocean powered by I/O's.
The only I/Os we see here are big go fast boats with 7+ liter V-8s in
them or snow birds who have not figured out they have the wrong boat
yet. Even now, the go fast crowd is migrating to trip or quad
outboards. I see a Yellowfin 36 out at the beach now and then running
trip 7 Marines.

I/Os may be fine as a northern trailer boat but they suck in tropical
salt water, especially if they are raw water cooled. The last time I
did a survey, we had 78 boats in my little 120 resident neighborhood.
None are I/Os.
Half are Yamaha, a quarter Mercury and the remaining quarter are
Zekes, 2 smoke OMCs, One Etec and one Honda. I don't remember the last
time I saw an I.O on the river but I am sure it had out of state
numbers on it.
I understand the I/O is pretty popular on the Chesapeake but that may
just be because it is not really salt water and that the are cheap. It
may make sense for a person looking at a 3-4 month season.
My experience with the I/O in the Chesapeake taught me to never, ever have another I/O in salt
water. Many folks here suggested that Donnee look at an outboard instead of an I/O, but, of course,
Donnee knew better.

Duh, JohnnyMop....the advice came after I had purchased the bow rider. I did look at the same model with the 90hp outboard but in the time it took me to walk around the boat show, the last 2015 Bayliner 170BR had been sold. I got my 2015 175BR at a reduced price at the 2016 show because it was an unsold boat from the previous year. If I wanted to pay 40% more I would have gone with the 2016 BR 180 and an upgrade to the 115 hp Mercury.

How much have you lost on your other boat purchases? I learned a long
time ago that it pays to spend a few extra bucks for quality. You can't
add it later. Perfect examples are major appliances, gas grills,
lawnmowers, cars, *and* boats.

Once I get my boat fixed up, waxed, etc., I actually plan to make a profit. We'll see. Right now
just owning it is very pleasurable.


You are thinking of selling it? Let me know when. I'll allow a fair
profit.

Just hold on. Got some work to do first. It's nice to see a few folks showing interest already!


Based on the pic I saw it doesn't seem to need all that much work and it
has very nice lines. I think you are just trying to drive the price up.


Caught. :)


Trying to get a bidding war going?

Hey, if it happens it happens! You folks just have to wait 'til I get it fixed up a bit. I'm getting
a lot of advice from Tim, who has big time experience with 'older' boats.