You want a top gun…come buy mine. It’s one of the cheapest on the market.

Lets go with Naive Overly Enthusiastic large twin engine performance boat buyer that saw nothing he couldn’t fix 🤣

All Credits to you as you are one of the few that completed a never ending project like that unlike 95% of the previous members we never heard from again.

I was like Oboy when you first started opening up the cockpit floors to access the fuel tanks but Dano the Mano got it Done. Great threads tooo

You never disappoint. I saw a great deal on a like new John Deere riding lawnmower recently rebuilt and converted over to fuel injection by a reputable neighbor of the owner of the mower.

You should snatch it up.

I like that, the Danimal!

LOL , let me tell you ..I bet it`s a lot more fun watching and reading my adventures than it is actually living it !!
That mower seems like a project right up my alley !

Ah Look back at all the skills you learned that you thought you never would have.

Optimism and Perseverance and some $s can overcome almost anything.

25 years ago when I owned my parasailing business I had college kids working for me that were the beginning of these useless generations knowing anything useful

Anyways long before YouTube I was fixing their cars or whatever else was broken in life and they would ask me how did you learn to fix that. I told them I learned by doing what I had to do because I couldn’t afford the expense and downtime to not fix it myself.

I should have gone to college and became a lawyer/politician but at the time I didn’t realize I wasn’t dumb enough nor how easy it was so to sell my soul.

Here's a FB quote from Brian who built the engines, seems the owner isn't being honest.

I know that some of the guys on the web page Offshore Only are looking at a 1991 38 Cigarette down if Florida listed for $50,000.00 that I did back in 2018. I want to warn them that all the pictures in the adds are of the boat during the build and when the current owner bought the boat and don't show its current state. This boat must of sunk in salt water and the trailer was also used in salt water. In my opinion the boat is beyond repair with damage, mold and rust everywhere. I had a customer interested in buying the boat until the current condition pictures were sent. They are very hard for me top look at with all the hours I had in that project...this was a beautiful boat when the current owner bought it.

Always get boats inspected before buying

any way to get ahold of the pictures?. Just curious…

I dont think they where published on line

even an experienced gun owner should avoid this one…

My first go fast boat was a donzi 22zx. Best speed achieved was 73mph!! Man that gave me the itch bad! but glad i started out with something small. Easy to trailer and dock. Had a bunch of trouble free time with it. Id personally start with something in the 21-27ft range for your first one. You'll always want more but can be in a boat with decent power that wont completely kill your wallet. plus only have to worry about maintaining one engine/drive is nice too. My next boat will be twins and in the 30' range but i'll still keep my lil 24'x7" Excalibur for a little bay boat and easy to throw offer for a quick run.

You know right there makes you know the seller is a scammer. Why even put the other ad up unless he is just hoping to get someone not smart enough to look before they buy.

It's not like the boat is a "little" dirty since the pictures were done, it's freaking trashed. The rust on the motors mean a salt water boat that was never rinsed off on the outside, I bet the motors were never flushed.

junk.

link doesn’t work for me…can someone post the pics? Not interested in buying. More curious than anything

LOL...that guy can pay me $50k to get rid of it. Sure looks like it spent some time taking a salt water bath.

Seeing the before & after pics?.......raises the question, worst bottom dwellers...Ins Co.. or Yachts sales Co.?

I defer to my first post.




sad

Wow that’s in rough shape…for $50k

makes my boat look like a steal

Boat abuse. :(

Damn that thing got destroyed fast, a lot of money was put into that boat.

Definitely going to cost somewhere between 100-150%+ of purchase price to get that one in good running condition and that is typically par for the course of any boat in below average condition. If it's in average condition it will take anywhere from 50%-100%+ of purchase price to get it to good condition. And if it's your first go fast the average time of ownership is about 2 years.

Now that we have realized that 50k “deal” is a scam, I’ll offer a bit different perspective - My first time driving a boat over 20’ and with more than a 175 Johnson on the back was when I bought my Cafe racer and took it to the ramp. Steep learning curve, yes. A few lessons learned, yes. But, I’m actually glad I didn’t get to that size boat in several iterations.

I owned a boat with fresh, relatively reliable power that I treated/maintained well for 15 years. When I sold it, the interior needed redone but the drivetrain was fresh again and hopefully reliable for the next guy.

I am not sure I would hesitate to do it again, particularly if I was buying a boat from a respected member on here. I don’t know MOSES personally, but as a contributing member of 15 years I would look at a boat like his LONG before I would buy something off FB, CL, Boat Trader, or from most brokers.

Just be smart. Buy a truck that is big enough to handle it - I am talking Diesel, not an Ecoboost F150, CyberTruck or borrowing a neighbor’s 1/2 ton Silverado. Take it out by yourself without distractions the first few times on days when there aren’t a ton of people. Don’t pull up to the busiest lunch spot in town the first time you dock.

I’m a total dumbass and I got through it, but please don’t do it if you’re going to do something stupid and drive up insurance rates for the rest of us.

Important to factor in the '90s era factor of built in swim steps and if you have a Fountain...the extra beak length in determining hull length and characteristics.

A 27 Fountain Fever is essentially a 24ft wetted surface hull.

Reliable worry free boating is gold.

Is there anyone that has done more to a Cig Top Gun?