No this is new. Long story actually but the dealer in question installed new water pump impellers but didn't flush system. The old rubber pieces overheated it which melted exhaust bellow before I caught it. Then sink time

So yes. I was sold salvage boat presented as one owner and their faulty repairs made it sink. At least the insurAnce is paying out well for it

I wouldn't either.....yet.

But I would get on the phone with a lawyer and put the lying scumbag out of business.

It seems to me...Reguardless of what happened in the past...You certainly will have a salvaged boat now. Good luck with the repairs...I hope it will be fixed to your sastifaction.

Very good point. Lol.

This boat sank before you bought, then it sank again when the exhaust bellows melted? Didn't the overheat alarms not go off when the motors got hot?

Were the bilge pumps working? I know the exhaust bellows would let a lot of water in but I would think they would buy you at least some time. BTW I think the cat is out of the bag on who the dealer was

We are the dealer that sold boat to Chad. I would like to know if anyone has any information on his claim prior to Chad buying it that it was totaled at some point so we can help Chad. We repaired the boat after it was run on rocks in the fall by current owner (nothing major or structural). We also changed the water pumps before we delivered boat and then a few weeks later it sunk. It was below freezing the day after we delivered boat. Attached are a few pics before we delivered it so these are current. The only difference is after making minor repairs to bottom of boat we bottom painted it.

If the boat was totaled which is being assumed some proof would be helpful so we could help get closure to this. I have posted pics of boat to help identify it. Fountain built a few 38EC's with 500EFI's and 525EFI's over the years while the majority came with 496HO's and even a few diesels.

What we know
1) Sold by Legendary in 2003 or 04.
2) Sold to broker in LOTO who then sold to a customer of ours with clean title in 2007. Apparently the LOTO broker bought from salvage then sold with clear title.
3) The boat was traded into us from customer in from OK with clean OK title in 2010.
4) SPM sold the boat to Chad and Chad had a problem with boat and then was told it had a salvage history which we cannot track

There are some questions, one being why there was a brand new impeller in boat and a chewed up impeller that looks brand new inside? It is unclear why boat was driven so long while overheating and smells of burning rubber and smoke coming out of engine compartment reported by customer. The rubber between the tailpipes and the pipes off headers at the transom wall got so hot they melted and the water came in thru the transom.

If we did something wrong we will stand behind it but it is hard to understand how it got so hot that it melted these radial pieces of rubber and the headers got brown two weeks after we delivered the boat but yet there was a like new impeller in motor and fragments of an impeller that looked brand new in hose to pump. We are concerned that the day after we delivered boat it was below freezing and possible that motor was started with ice in hoses not allowing water flow.

Chad, we have offered to fix boat if it was our error and or take boat back on trade. We asked you to let us know where you stand with insurance company so that we can make decision on which way to go with this as there are details you are not posting nor do I feel relevance to post.

What would help more than anything is board members helping us track owner/owners other than the customer who traded boat into us so we can help Chad track to find out in fact, not speculation that it really was totaled. Usually a high profile boat with damage has alot of data and pics out there taken by individuals and or other. Until we know for a fact it was totaled and have proof I think we should be a bit open minded. We will be the first ones to support you if you can help find information for this claim and back track it to help you if necessary.

Any help finding out the history on this boat would be appreciated.

Thank you

Regards,

Scott Shogren

Here are some pics of boat

We flushed the system, installed a new water pump. Two weeks after we delivered boat it overheated, melted hoses, this is what dealer pulled out and also pulled a intact new impeller out

Regards,

Scott Shogren