To part or not to part that is the question. KAAMA SR-1
 

I was going to restore this boat but found out it has moisture everywhere. I am keeping the engines (for another project) but the rest will have to go. It is a shame to cut it up. Do you think someone would restore it? or should I just part it out?


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I would be interested in the Drives

If I do part the boat out, does the hull have value?

A stripped hull with moisture/rot is worth whtever the first guy to actually show up has in his pocket. Too bad boat looks fairly clean.

Cool old Formula I have never seen one on here with the 425 horse Kaama motors ,

You sure it is a SR1 I thought that with that designation that model had a very low cut windshied but maybe it was the Kaama package

From what I heard back in the day was Innovation out Sarasota was the main builders of the 425 Kaama motor

Yours are all original with the Valve covers and the Gill Exhaust with the Kaama plaques attached to them.

I did not rebuild the engines on the one I worked on but the guy that did said they had really good parts in them I remember Ed Pink rods being mentioned when he tore them down

Back in 1987 I totally rebuilt a 20 hour 302 SR1 Kaama motor and drive Formula that was a 1985 that had spent the night on the beach in 8 foot breakers . What a mess.

Cool clean boat To bad it is wet.

It seems like the majority of the boats you see getting parted out here these days seems to be the Formulas even some rather newer ones have gone to the dump.

Sad to see so many mostly nice but WET boats get parted but so goes economics.

Yeah it is pretty clean. All 302 were SR-1s after 1983 or so. This one is a KAAMA but I think they are still referred to by SR-1 Kaama. Very few had the low windshield.

Exact boat as on the cover adn page 16 + 17.

http://www.formulaboats.com/document...20Brochure.pdf

So I assume the hull is worth only $1000 bucks or so?

What is "wet" all over the stringers and bulkhead? or just transom?

Please let me know if you do part it out I have a project I am working on

Bare hulls are worth little to nothing. Especially wet. You would have a better chance selling hull if its rigged.

Tramsom soft, Cabin floors and cabin seats. So I assume their is more wet