It's official! The seller has agreed to sell me the boat next week after they get the paperwork together and I get my financing together! We did a lot of looking around, and there were a number of very good cantidates.
As you know, Lisa and I set some parameters for what we were looking for, what we didn't want, and what we did... After a tremendous amount of great advice from fellow board members, this is what we landed on.
It's a 1986 CV-23 with Alpha 1 Gen one drive. It has the 5.7 powerplant, and a factory glastron dual axle trailer. The previous owner upgraded the origional drum brakes on the trailer to disk brakes which (believe it or not) are fully functional.
Upholstry is clean and in good condition. There are a few cosmetic blemishes, but 98% of them are the types of things that we can easily fix with new rolls of accent trim tape, teak oil, and 3M marine wax.
Take a look at the photobucket photo's and tell me what you think! I should have it in the driveway next week.
http://s594.photobucket.com/albums/tt24/cgoamn/1986%20CV-23/