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Sorry I have no affiliation and couldn’t get a Facebook marketplace ad to post here. There’s a very nice - whaler drive - 22 outrage listed here in Islamorada Fl. Only 160 hours and looks pretty clean but has been in covered storage since ‘97. Single 2stroke Johnson Hasn’t run since then. Asking 10k...

The boat [seen in Figure 2] looks to be floating happily. I had a 23 [WALKAROUND] with a [Whaler Drive] and twin 200-HP engines; it was much too [stern] heavy. If I put aboard a cooler with one bag of ice the deck scuppers went underwater. ! always suspected there was a great hull in these designs, ...

Thank you for the objective replies. Ok my real question. Sorry it got lost in my long post.

Is there wood in the transom?

If you find a nice 25 only with a whaler drive, I’ll buy it and give you the foredeck.

I may buy a 1999 GUARDIAN 25. The story is the same old one: used hard and put away wet. I’d walk if this boat were a run-of-the-mill production boat. This GUARDIAN is unique; it has a dive door and many options. The boat may possibly be worth the brain damage [perhaps a metaphor for the substantial...

For use by my kids, should I buy a nice c.1980 13-footer with a Yamaha 70-HP two-stroke-power-cycle engine?