Just buy this one and you'll be 50k ahead. Its a clean well taken care of LOTO boat.
http://www.offshoreonly.com/classifi...o37598-en.html

Sell the trailer and hardware, then, cut the transome off and make a wet bar out of it

That is a sad sight! Shame.

Could use the drive cut outs or exhausts for beer taps!

It might make a good fishing reef.

I could be interested in the swim platform if you buy or he parts it out. Too much work to even think about on that one...

OK UPDATE: He's asking $5k for this boat........ I'm not sure what to say about that. The only reason I'm not sure what to say is, I try to be nice in things that I write.

Engine hatches, tabs, gimbals, and swim platform might be worth some money. Might be able to convert it into a center console.

Now that's funny

Am I the only one here that says "go for it"? Remember this one?

TG Fire Resto

Granted that was a newer boat, but at least this damage is localized, and localized to a part of the hull that is structurally (geometrically) the strongest part (lots of surfaces coming together at a point). Also there is no heavy equipment mounted
up there, this is the lightest and least stressed area of the hull.

There are nicely done Mistresses floating around for sale in the under 30k range.

I've said it about other boats and I'll say it here - that boat is a disposal problem; nothing more.