I thought I would share my misfortune, that all happened because a young lady wasn't paying attention to the road. I picked up my new to me boat on Friday, April 18th. It was a 94 Formula F271 SR. I left with the boat and made it a whole mile down the road before my day turned to crap. I was sitting in traffic stopped, waiting to take off when I glanced up in my side mirror and noticed a car coming up on me very quickly and didn't appear to be slowing down. I knew what was about to happen so I braced myself and sure enough I became the victim of a texting and driving accident. I owned the boat a total of 10 minutes before it was torn all to pieces. She was alright, just shaken up a bit....the boat and her car didn't fare so well. I'm just glad nobody was hurt.

These were taken when I picked it up



And this was a few minutes later.

That sucks. Sorry for your misfortune.

DAMN. She whacked you hard.

That's going to be an insurance nightmare.

Ohhh cr@p. Good to hear everyone is OK but that totaly sucks. I hope you can get her back together and enjoy it this year.

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Haven't gotten the official word yet, but I think we will be able to go ahead with the repairs. The estimate for the boat only was just shy of 19K. If it does get fixed, then it's getting an XR upper with an imco -2 lower and a full imco hydraulic steering setup.

What a rough first day!!!! Hope everything goes well with insurance and repairs!!

I hope you wind up with upgrades. Sorry to see that.

That SUUUCKKKSSSS!!!!!!!! Glad your alright ... Keep us posted!!

That really sucks!! Feel for you... Hopefully, the insurance company will come through and you'll get this behind you and enjoy your new to you boat. The texting/driving thing is a really a problem. As the father of two teenage drivers, I am very sensitive to this and my kids know that if they ever get caught doing that, their driving days are over. They've even signed "contracts" with me to that effect. At least you were not hurt. My father's best friend was killed four years ago coming home from the supermarket from being rear-ended by a girl who was texting...

Yikes that sucks. She took out everything!

Make sure you look over the inside stuff extremely close, i.e. engine mounts, stringers, etc. I would be worried the impact force transferred through the input shaft into the engine itself, as well as damage to the bow of the boat with impact to the bow stop. Especially if it was hit hard enough to shove the boat forward on the trailer that much.