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Frozen lakes cut evaporation even in the cold and overcast of winter. There have been drought like conditions in much of the country. The Mississippi River has been at record lows with barges getting stuck for the past year or so. All that impacts moisture available to get to the lakes.

Something that comes to my mind is the inlet or outlet hoses on the boat or the clamps for them? Possibly? The thing that throws me off is the boat is only seven years old, not twenty. Yes, rivets can loosen or seals can go at any point but usually occurs on boats older than this one. Just a thought.

He has it listed on Rochester Craiglist at $58000.00

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Boston Whaler recommended bunk trailers only, even to the point of including it on their handout brochures you collected as a kid back then.

Next year is an election year for the NYS Senate and Assembly. It would be interesting to find out how your individual legislators voted on this bill as that is how it gets to the Governor for signature. Until the past few years the Senate remained controlled by the Republican party, we need to turn some more upstate seats back to Republican control to get a majority back, not the ideal solution(would rather have more control than just the Senate) but at least it would allow some other voices to be heard.

To keep things in perspective most of the plywood in a transom or on a floor has had minimal or no treatment coming from the factory, so in many cases this has lasted 25, 30 years or more unless there was some sort of breach, something spilled on it, or something drilled through and not sealed. Therefore as I mentioned above taking the minimal steps to improve things as part of the replacement is going to last perhaps 35 or 40 years. But again, a lot of material choices to ponder.

That would be the standard and I would paint it on both sides. Then purchase vinyl for the floor covering. I am sure others will be adding their suggestions using other materials.

Crestliner Sabre G/L

Very hard to find especially now that the newest of the Islanders, Sylvan Offshores, or Crestliners is now approaching twenty years old. I owned a 1990 Sylvan Offshore and I pondered purchasing a new outboard model of these in the mid 1990s and also in the early 2000s when Crestliner was going to stop making them and it was hard to find when they were new. Just offering insight.

It has been several years but some of those aluminum parts used to be for sale on Ebay.

I don't know that there is anything in the Volvo outdrive that would prevent the usual process of winterizing like you would do any other outdrive. I would do some research on line to be sure if no one responds on here. There is probably a video on You Tube.

You have to get to the right person at the DMV with all your information. Surprisingly in this situation they can be very helpful. If the trailer is under 1000 lbs in terms of weight it can be registered as homemade. If the boat is pre-title era, which i think is before 1988 or 1989 it will be a lot simpler process. VIN numbers are also very helpful.

If you are not doing anything for several years you have plenty of time to do your research, go to boat shows and ask owners at marinas or boat ramps about how they feel about their particular boat. As alluded to in the above post, every year boats with low hours come up. Now that the market has sort of returned to normal, those used boats will start to appear again.