A few days ago I picked up a 93 stratos 285 pro xl! It was suppose to be good to go and everything in working condition! Me and a buddy drove 2 hours away to pick it up. It was at a boat shop so I honestly didn’t question what I was told by the mechanic and owner. We arrived just a little after dark inspected what we could and hurried back with it. The next day we decided to take it to the lake for a little test run. Motor Just gave us problems. We loaded it back up and brought it to my shop; ran a compression test 110 on starboard side and 95 100 105 on port side. Called a boat place down here and Was pretty much told it was worthless now!! (93 intruder 150) I decided to do a de carb and just see if that did anything, I let it sit over night with seafoam and ran compression again got 105 across the board on the port side. I then put muffs on it and it cranked right up sounded good until it caught on fire at the kill switch and burned up few wires and dash piece! I started to take dash apart and noticed rotted wood up under the dash, from there I went ahead and ripped all the carpet out to replace it and noticed rotted wood on the floor. Long story short the cap should be coming off tomorrow!! My plan is to fix replace floor, stringers, and transom if needed, maybe a re wire (not that great at it) new carpet, and seats. This project will cost me more then what it’s worth but for some reason I’m bound and determined to get it back on the water. I currently have the motor off and will be taken it to a shop to be inspected, hoping it’s good to go!! This is my first time doing glass work so feel free to give advice!!!
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