Ouch, that sucks.
I voted it Best Of.
seller said: Reason for selling is: Current owner giving up all privileges for operating anything that floats or has a motor due to severe lack of functioning grey matter.
Gotta give the guy credit for keeping his sense of humor...
How do you know its cheap? No price given. I mean...
Generally a free boat, like a free race car is way too expensive.
When we were on our one and only island vacation we took a snorkeling tour. In the harbor among the anchored boats I noticed just the mast of about a 24-footer sticking out of the water at a rakish angle.
The tour skipper said it had sunk at anchor about 5 or 6 years previously and was abandoned by the original owner. According to him, every spring, a different group of young 20-somethings came down, rented shallow dive gear and a pump, and raised her. They'd clean her up, keep her above water, and use her for the summer. Then they'd go home and she would sink again. Next year a different bunch would give it a go.
I too voted it for best of CL. I assume that someone just took the pic and posted the 'ad' and that is not the actual owner of the boat.
EPA will find whoever the current owner is responsible for any fuel and oil leaked into the water.
5 hours on the engine.
Ouch.
I met a guy who salvaged a sunken sailboat and then repurposed it as a mobile restaurant/bar. Pretty neat; it was a high end wooden boat built in Japan, beautiful woodwork, a spiral staircase, etc. The original owner had anchored it, gone to sleep and during the night a combination of high winds and above average tides dragged it onto a big sandbar. No insurance, the salvage estimate was over $100k so he abandoned it. The guy who eventually salvaged it rented a bulldozer (also a barge to get the bulldozer to the sandbar) and moved it a little at a time till he got it close to the water, then when another high tide came in he was able to finish pulling it with a boat. Took him something like 3 months and careful timing to get it floated again.
I've seen sailboats on CL that had been down and brought back up, usually form some through-hull failure at the dock. Most seemed fine, but it gives me the heebie-jeebies. no way I'd want a bot that had spent time on the wrong side of the waves - I would be worried it was happier there and it might be working at going back. What Davy Jones gets, he keeps.
Hahahahaha 
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