Tank
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Strongly considering this as an upgrade to the 34. Seems like some good historical knowledge of the boat here. What else should I be concerned about with it?
If you're serious, the only thing you need to worry about owning this is the potential for high dollar maintenance with the power. In my experience, anything over 8 to 900 hp starts to get astronomically high maintenance and finicky.
But as far as going down there and buying it, I'd leak down the motors (exhaust), compression test, check the oil on the drives and have an oil sample sent in for annalysis (rebuilding a 6 is no cheap affair), take the props off of the 6's to check the prop shafts (this boat has been run in the ocean and if the props haven't been removed the corrosion eats the shafts which can run up to 3k each to replace). Get a survey and get someone that knows moisture and rot well and have them check the transom.
Take a good look under the areas of the boat that aren't immediately visible. Seriously, dude selling it has some photos in the ad for a while that showed the interior stained and leaves in the bilge and what not. Looked like the thing had been sitting out for a while.