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Offline CVX Fever

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Drag Em Out!
« on: April 25, 2018, 10:21:48 PM »
Summer's here boys! ;) Got one out, two more to go! The '85 looks good behind that black 'Hoe

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Offline dorelse

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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2018, 11:56:30 PM »
Barfly came home last weekend... thought it was sold, but having second thoughts.  She's just so pretty!

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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2018, 07:37:31 AM »
Kip ... Your CVX would even look good behind a Chevy Chevette !

Doran .. Looked like ya had a few buyers, were they waiting on test drives ?

Believe Trent has the first "On the water" pictures for 2018.
Waiting for "First on the water in MN." pictures ...

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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2018, 07:41:58 AM »
Last time I was this late getting on the water I didn’t own a boat 🤬🤮


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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2018, 08:00:09 AM »
Drag is the operative word.  Live webcam shot from lake Minnetonka.  No waves, plenty of Snowmobile tracks visible.  Solid Ice.
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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2018, 11:26:41 AM »
 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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Offline dorelse

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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2018, 11:39:27 AM »
Doran .. Looked like ya had a few buyers, were they waiting on test drives ?


There's interest.  I brought it home early specifically b/c the guy had 'cash in hand' and wanted the boat 100%.  Then of course, he doesn't...he thought he was getting a brand new mint 'barn find' for $2500...which I told him it wasn't before making the trip up.

So...then he flaked.  There are more interested, but I need to change out the gear lube before I start it up.  The blower and bilge also conked out after a wave at the meet last summer, so I need to fix that as well.
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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2018, 06:01:02 PM »
Finding a 30 year old boat in perfect shape for $2500 doesn't seem out of the question ...
I'm sure he'll find one ... Eventually ...
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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2018, 08:41:27 PM »
Well, blower is fixed!

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Offline Plugcheck

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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2018, 09:13:35 PM »
The electrons couldn't find their way home is all.  Glad to hear it was a simple fix.
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Offline Oldfishguy

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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2018, 09:51:32 PM »
There's interest.  I brought it home early specifically b/c the guy had 'cash in hand' and wanted the boat 100%.  Then of course, he doesn't...he thought he was getting a brand new mint 'barn find' for $2500...which I told him it wasn't before making the trip up.

So...then he flaked.  There are more interested, but I need to change out the gear lube before I start it up.  The blower and bilge also conked out after a wave at the meet last summer, so I need to fix that as well.

 My thoughts, hold your price.

Seems more than fair to me, and the peak market for our machines is still 30 days off.  It can be frustrating dealing with buyers but you have to understand there are a lot of tire kickers out there.  I’d say 10% of your contacts are live buyers ready to move.  Once on the property you simply have to close the deal, and that is an art in itself.  Jovial, yet serious, at an early point ask the buyer if they have an offer?  (No matter what discrepancies they find). At that moment you will find if they are a tire kicker or not.  Be ready for a low offer . . . immediately reject it.  And just like that they have committed to the buy, and it is just a matter of what the final price will be. 

As odd as it is I find this game entertaining.  The read of the buyer/seller of each other.  If the other sides refuses to budge, slow the process, significantly, uncomfortably really.  This gives each side a moment to think and realize what is at stake.

A couple days ago I sold a 2001 Honda 30Hp four stroke with the forward controls on Craigslist.  The guy that bought it from me I think out smarted me. We were a few hundred off on the price and he simply, slowly, methodically outlasted me.  I know I left a few hundred on the table because I wasn’t patient enough.

Best of luck.

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Offline fireman24mn

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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2018, 10:42:51 PM »
Well, blower is fixed!

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Not supposed to use wire nuts for marine. Get a couple butt connectors. The wire nuts with vibration fall off.
I think this has become an addiction.


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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2018, 10:59:15 PM »
Not supposed to use wire nuts for marine. Get a couple butt connectors. The wire nuts with vibration fall off.

That's exactly what I used...
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Offline Plugcheck

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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #13 on: April 27, 2018, 07:41:53 AM »
       Certainly a lot of ways to make the connections, solder/shrink, terminal block, molex, auto plugs, etc....   What I would question is why are there two sets of splices mere inches from one another?   Just sets up another failure point.
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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #14 on: April 27, 2018, 10:00:37 AM »
       Certainly a lot of ways to make the connections, solder/shrink, terminal block, molex, auto plugs, etc....   What I would question is why are there two sets of splices mere inches from one another?   Just sets up another failure point.

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Offline CVX Fever

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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2018, 06:32:42 PM »
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Drag is the operative word.  Live webcam shot from lake Minnetonka.  No waves, plenty of Snowmobile tracks visible.  Solid Ice./quote]

I'm betting two weeks from tonight the "Date" will be sitting in her slip on Minnetonka. ;)

Another week I'll be dragging her out! 8)
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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2018, 09:34:08 AM »
Dragged out the trailer but left the boat.


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Offline David CVX-16

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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2018, 10:12:21 AM »
Any word if the ice is off White Bear Lake?
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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #18 on: April 30, 2018, 12:40:45 PM »
Dragged out the trailer but left the boat.




What did you use to cushion the jack on the hull with Jason?
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Re: Drag Em Out!
« Reply #19 on: April 30, 2018, 02:52:18 PM »
Rubber mat.

Pretty scary lifting that monster up. You can feel all the weight is in the rear. Not much effort to lift the front end.

Thanks to a large pad on the rear of the boat you can lift the entire rear with one jack and a big block of wood.
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