Owner Neglect

blaster

blaster

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May 23, 2011
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potomac river
Boat Info
2010 sea ray 205 sport
F-250 CCLB 6.2 4x4 3.73 rear.
Engines
Mercruiser 4.3 mpi alpha 1.62
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The pictures speak for themselves.
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Too bad, that's a nice bass boat. No cowling on the motor?
 
Sad to see, but it's reality. Some people don't care, others care but aren't able to take care of things they own properly.
 
Here in the Land of One Lake you see the same things and you know that one winter full of water and ice and they're pretty much junk but if you would approach the owner about selling it they would flat out say no or be offended the you even asked.I always wonder if these boats are loan fugitives
 
So, here the marina had a boat that no one saw the owner or anyone else visit in over two years. The boat degraded as you would expect. As it ends up the owner passed away while he was set up to have the marina paid automatically which continued almost two years after his passsing. His estate finally settled and that is how it got taken care of.
 
I also believe that people think; "Hey, it's a boat and waterproof".
 
My Ex BIL's 1850 Striper with 115 Evinrude OB, has been sitting, uncovered for 4 years. He didn't even winterize it. Used to be a nice little boat............ He just quit boating. My brother offered him a fair price for it, he said "NO"!! Go figggure
 
our first boat was a 1986 Chris Craft 186 Scorpion bow rider with less than 300 hours.....it was in EXCELLENT condition inside and out and mechanically...it was always dry stacked under shelter when not in use....i made a few upgrades and improvements when i had it...when we decided to move up to a larger boat we thought giving the Chris Craft to my brother-in-law would be a nice jesture....he had 4 fairly young kids at the time so we thought they could have some fun time together on the water doing water sports....

big mistake....over the next couple years i witnessed the painfull, slow death of the boat....my BIL would not regularly cover the boat so it often sat out in the weather...so it was not long before the sun ruined the interior vinyl and the gel coat and the rain water softened all the wooden flooring....when i tried to encourage him to take better care of the boat he would siad he would do better but in the end did not....

he is not a bad guy...in fact he is a pastor.....but i guess his standards on things like this are just drastically different than mine....he ended up selling the boat for practically nothing which is what it was worth....

cliff
 
i had a little Sea Ray signature 170 that i bought from a friend. My first boat, loved it, took care of it, returned it to it's glory after years of hard use (not neglect). i was in medic school and it sat unused for 2 years, covered behind my aunts house where it was safe from prying eyes and away from potential tree falls and branches and it was covered well.
during a snow storm the second winter she neglected to tell me the tarp tore and for the rest of the winter it filled with snow and thawed some and filled again, over and over. when i went to go get it to clean it out and get it ready to go back in the water the carpet and some of the plywood were destroyed, there was literally an oak tree (from an acorn) starting to grow the carped had become soil. i wad so pissed off, my own family member who saw the boat every day from her kitchen window never said a word and it was easily visible that it was happening. cost over $1000 to repair myself and about a week of labor.

not all neglect is that of the owner
 
OllieC said:
I also believe that people think; "Hey, it's a boat and waterproof".
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Truth. I was b$%#$ing about not having my boat under the lean-to to my current girlfriend and she said, "Why does it matter? It's a boat so it's waterproof."

Needless to say my first comment was water goes under it, not in it. Then talked about sun etc.
 
Occoquan park. They hauled several away which were derelict and delinquent but someone still pays to store these junk boats.

I did hear mention of a widow who still pays to store her husband's boat. Not sure if its one of these.

I rember when they put up the bayliner in 2011 young family, haven't seen them since. It just rots away.
 
blaster said:
Occoquan park. They hauled several away which were derelict and delinquent but someone still pays to store these junk boats.

I did hear mention of a widow who still pays to store her husband's boat. Not sure if its one of these.

I rember when they put up the bayliner in 2011 young family, haven't seen them since. It just rots away.
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What we do is a labor of love. It takes a lot of work even if you are very wealthy and just manage it. Most people buy boat and have no understanding of the amount of work involved in maintaining one. Most CSR members have at least one thing in common besides boats, we care.

MM
 
Update. Nothing has changed.
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Yeah, those pics are tough to look at!

I enjoy cleaning, washing, and tinkering almost as much as I enjoy using the boat. I just can't imagine ignoring a boat like these owners obviously do. Since this is the first year I've owned a boat in nearly 20 years, I'm already starting to worry about what I'm going to do when it's winterized and shrunk wrapped for the winter!
 
I'm always amazed that the yard owners don't occasionally mow the grass and have someone run a weed whacker around the boats stored like this.
 
I watched our next door neighbor that I sold my SeaDoo too a few years back let it go to hell in no time. When I sold it to him, I took it over and put it on his lift, covered, cleaned waxed in perfect shape. They used it that weekend and that was the last time it was ever covered, it sat there uncovered all winter, not winterized. Next spring he commented that it would not start - imagine that. They were nice people, but he admitted that he just didn't have the time or care to take care of his things, his plan was to just buy a new one when the old one broke - they would leave the house on Sunday, boats uncovered, stuff all over the dock like they were just going in for lunch. Show up a week or two later and start using things. Brand new pontoon boat sat in the water, uncovered, for a year even though had a brand new lift installed with it - you can imagine what it looked like after a year. Funny thing is he was in the car business - was always complaining that his guys weren't keeping his car clean enough - every one of his cars looked like it just rolled off the showroom. Go figure. When we sold the house and were moving stuff out, he asked about buying my SeaRay, I probably could have gotten a good price from him and moved on to another boat, but I just couldn't do it knowing where that boat would end up. That's how my little 18' boat ended up in dry storage on Lake Norman.

You can walk around any marina and there are boats like that - they just sit, many of them outside, not covered and just rot away. I can't do that, first, I don't have the $$ to replace a boat or car every few years because I don't take care of them, plus that's just me, I like to take care of things, I guess some people would call me a little crazy, but that's ok.
 
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BillK2632 said:
I watched our next door neighbor that I sold my SeaDoo too a few years back let it go to hell in no time. When I sold it to him, I took it over and put it on his lift, covered, cleaned waxed in perfect shape. They used it that weekend and that was the last time it was ever covered, it sat there uncovered all winter, not winterized. Next spring he commented that it would not start - imagine that. They were nice people, but he admitted that he just didn't have the time or care to take care of his things, his plan was to just buy a new one when the old one broke - they would leave the house on Sunday, boats uncovered, stuff all over the dock like they were just going in for lunch. Show up a week or two later and start using things. Brand new pontoon boat sat in the water, uncovered, for a year even though had a brand new lift installed with it - you can imagine what it looked like after a year. Funny thing is he was in the car business - was always complaining that his guys weren't keeping his car clean enough - every one of his cars looked like it just rolled off the showroom. Go figure. When we sold the house and were moving stuff out, he asked about buying my SeaRay, I probably could have gotten a good price from him and moved on to another boat, but I just couldn't do it knowing where that boat would end up. That's how my little 18' boat ended up in dry storage on Lake Norman.

You can walk around any marina and there are boats like that - they just sit, many of them outside, not covered and just rot away. I can't do that, first, I don't have the $$ to replace a boat or car every few years because I don't take care of them, plus that's just me, I like to take care of things, I guess some people would call me a little crazy, but that's ok.
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+1! In that case, I am crazy too...


Bennett
 
At my marina a boat was stored indoors in dry dock for 13 years without ever being used. The storage bill was paid.

One Monday the owner called the marina manager and told him they would be down this coming weekend and have the boat ready to go...................
 
It seems like people get caught up in life - kids, taking care of parents, other interest, job issues.... But people like the idea of knowing they have a boat and can go out and sadly over time it just gets neglected. Then one day they get back into or sell it. Life goes by so fast that suddenly a couple years have passed.
 
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