Skater Submarine
 

So I have a friend with an older 32 Skater (87) that thinks its a jet ski and was doing high speed donuts, swamped boat and it sunk. Inboard boat with 540s and #3 drives. near complete redo 3 yrs ago.Boat spent a week in Lake Okanagan in about 70 ft of water. fix or junk? Fuel tanks were redone long time ago. I think junk, let insurance take it. Opinions, issues with fixing? Btw accident was very stupid and gives performance boaters a bad name, no life jackets and happened at 9pm. Only casualty was boat. Very Lucky.

Not an expert but water intrusion in the Baltec coring would be a huge concern. 70' Is over two atmospheres of pressure. Heck most boats that old have issues sitting uncovered in Florida and NJ where they seem to go to die! Maybe a question for glass expert like Glassdave here on OSO.

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I wouldn't recommend buying anthing that sat underwater for days espically an old hull that may have had water intrusion issues prior. A freind just redid his buddys 31' IMP after it sat underwater at the marina for a couple of days. I personally wouldn't want it. As Sam stated the Skaters have some wood in them and I didn't even consider the atmospheric pressure at depth. Pass.

Call Pete at Skater, see what his thoughts are?
He may even have history on the boat.

Everything has its price point...

Jon

For the right price I would buy it. I understand what everyone is saying about the coring and dont disagree but everthing is rebuildable. There again the right price.

buy it the parts alone would be worth it. That boat is worth 65k-75k floating. ins salvage says 15-25k fresh water ???

They dont like sharp turns at low speed lol, i would know thats how I bought mine from previous owner.

Our Bluewater yacht sunk when a snow storm collapsed the dock on top of it. Was on the bottom for 45 days due to lake freezing over and dock debris above it. Some people bought it cheep from insurance company and fixed it up and it looks better then new. Same engines, generator ect. still working.

I would not be afraid of fixing it up.