You will have to go with Pastel colors to be like Sonny !

I believe that I have found a trailer for the Cig, I'm going to be scheduling a survey after I make him an offer on it. Its local, and I have talked to people on here that know the boat and got some good feedback on it, hopefully I will be getting some late October boating in on it!!

Best of luck with going after the Cig. Hopefully it all works out

I took the wife and kids down to look at the Cig today, and was able to really dig around on it, it definitely needs some work on the interior in the cockpit area, its usable, but its got alot of wear (to be expected from original 1984 stuff) I did find the frame that holds the bottom of the rear seat is rotten, so I hope that nothing else is. All the trim and drive indicator cables need replaced. The guy has it listed for 25k, he has already come down 3k with out me even bringing up money, with the work it needs and the fact it needs a trailer, what should I offer him? I'm sure he has 18-20k in the motors, but what is one of these old things worth done? I would say it needs an easy 6-8k of work to be real nice.

Depending on condition of the hull and drives 18-22 is fair. I've paid 10 for one with no power or interior.

offer him 15k and go from there.its a buyers market out there and hard to sell a old boat with winter coming etc.all he can say is no.

That was my thinking as well

Zombie, did ya make a deal?

Just got done looking at the Cig one last time, giong to make an offer tonight.

it was also on my project boat list! But I'll let you grab it! just too far for me to go see it in this period of the year!!!

if only people selling all had a recent, a good survey on their boat to present, I'M sure many older boats would move a lot faster !

far from home, no hull survey, no mecanical inspection data, not enough time to organize all this easily, makes buying tougher...

Back a couple years, i paid for 3 survey, on 3 different boats, that were all bad, owner did not want to pay the survey even if his boat was not as good as stated...

I'm done! next one I buy, seller will have to prove me his boat is good, and pay for it! hell, I paid over 1000$ and got nothing except wasting my time!

Good luck and let me know !