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Bought my first boat, ‘93 210 explorer.

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Snapperslayer:
Hello, I’m Brad, I live in southwest Florida. I bought what appeared to be a well taken care of 210 explorer, sadly the more I learn, the more I discover that I made some mistakes along the way. The boat is nice to look at, it has had the hull painted a nice grey color, the deck is in great shape, clean, no soft spots, two biminis. I went around banging on all the sides of the hull and it felt solid, I tried to lift and push the motor to see if the transom moved, I banged on it inside and out and Banged  the sides of the stringers under the fish box etc. everything seemed great compared to the other boats I looked at in this category of boats on the market that I looked at. So I bought it.

Now on to where I went wrong, I believe I bought a boat that had sunk, and sat sunk for some time, the first tell was the bilge is dark and stained, not having any boating experience, I didn’t think anything of it I just figured it was never cleaned, then a bad wire for the trim gauge, it was rotted out in multiple places from water intrusion, no biggie I got a replacement from eBay. Next I have an issue with the fuel level sender, and that led me to pop the round covers and I notice the top of the fuel tank was very grimy, I didn’t think much of it at the time.

Now we’re getting into it, I want to slay some fish so I buy an overpriced lowrance unit and I’m all excited so i remove the old transducer and go to mount the two that cam with my new unit and when I drill the transom.... water spills out! Im working on building an engine shroud like a conch or seavee to block the loud 2 stroke Yamaha noise for my young boys to enjoy the boat a little better, but I still wanted full tilt, so I bought a fixed setback bracket, just a few inches so I won’t have to remove the shroud to tilt, well now I see the lower bolts have sunk into the transom about 1/4”, so now I’m looking at a wet transom for sure, then I start adding it all up, now I’m wondering about soaked stringer foam so I poke my finger in the hole where the fuel hose is run through from the center bilge to the rear, soaked!  no bueno!

Sigh, I like the boat, but given what I’ve learned, I overpaid ($7800) on what I thought was a solid great looking boat. But the market for nice boats under 10k here sucks, they are all beat or soft on the deck, so I’m still somewhat ok with my purchase.

No my question is, how much water would the stringers absorb? How much extra weight am I hauling if they are soaked? The scuppers are still well above the water. Can I gut the foam from the side towards the top in the fuel tank area and the bilge and pour in new foam without cutting out the deck? Maybe it’s not worth it?

For the transom I was thinking of drilling larger holes for the motor bolts and filling with epoxy and filling the sunk in parts then ré drilling them bolt holes and use a big thick plate of aluminum to spread the force/weight of the outboard across the transom.
I know it’s a bandaid, but it’s not a boat I plan to keep for life. Should I just make peace with I’m gonna get hammered on the resale and enjoy it until the transom seems more unsound?

Snapperslayer:
A few photos

Snapperslayer:
Mounting the bracket and the electronics, I need to remove the bracket and trim the transom plastic corner trim so that it lays flat on the transom. Surprisingly the motor was bolted on top of this as well, seems that would put all the load on the transom Unevenly distributed.

RickK:
If you want to post a pic when you talk about your boat, which you should, follow the instructions here http://classicaquasport.com/smf/index.php?topic=12725.0  - don't attach them - you are limited by file size. Uploading them into your "member gallery" is better for viewing.
Spend a few minutes to absorb the instructions. It's really easy. Remember if using a phone to take pics, to hold the phone horizontal with the lens to the left.

If you upload them to your gallery you can rotate the ones taken wrong on your phone and we don't get stiff necks - plus the gallery sizes everything you upload to 800x600 rez.

Snapperslayer:
Ok, I’ll try to fix that today, thanks.

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