Second-hand outboards - where?

SwampThing

I'm looking for a couple of second-hand outboards.

In particular, a 4 or 5 hp and a 30hp+

Four-stroke would be great, especially for the 30hp but I'd consider 2-stroke.

Also, if there were free, that'd be great too

Any ideas - Dublin or Galway area.

Cheers.

Wez

I've got a 6 horse johnson I'm selling. Long shaft, pull start, runs VERY smooth. Spent a few days over the winter fine tuning it and it seemed to be time well spent. Right now it's being annoying and being hard to start. I'm gonna fix this and sell it. I'm looking for what I paid for it ~450 ono. I'm looking for a 20-30 horse to upgrade too (wanna turn my speedboat into an actual speedboat since it's a 'slowboat' now). You're welcome to see it going. I'm keeping it in Carrick at the moment, if you wanna see it run and test drive we can arrange something, or to see it in a tank in Dublin.

SwampThing

Thanks Wez, but I'll look a little longer. I might be back though!

Burke

wez

u know u can't just upgrade a engine to a boat. u've to make sure (1)it doesn't effect the balance of the boat and (2)that the transom can take the pressure.

just in case u didn't know!

Felstorm

yeah there was a funny case in our club a while back where one of the junior instructers gunned the outboard on the back of the (very) old committee boat a bit too much and put a nice semi circle hole where the bracket is. Very amusing to watch as i sailed past.

Wez

Yeh Burke, I know all about that. The biggest my boat can take is a 50 hp. I'd be seriously worried about what Felstorm saw happening to me.

Burke

it could. by the look of ur boat it doesn't look like a 50hp could. doesn't look like the transom could take the pressure! i could be wrong though!

Wez

Well, I'm planning on only getting around a 30 then I'll sell it and buy a bigger maybe newer one. I have some fibreglass that I could use to support the transom a bit. If it's built to take a 50, it shouldn't take much work to make sure it'll do it safely. The guy I bought my boat off has had a few of the same one. He's the one that said 50, and he seems to know what he's talking about..

Burke

Wez wrote:

The guy I bought my boat off has had a few of the same one. He's the one that said 50, and he seems to know what he's talking about..

Well he will say that to sell it to you!

Wez

It was after I'd bought it, met him at a music festival on the shannon and he was talking about how good it looked after I did some work on it. He seemed like the kinda guy that wouldn't care if he sold it or not. He wasn't actually selling it, I just offered to buy it.

Burke

alright that's cool! just be sensible about it!

Felstorm

A good idea (what they did after the incident) was to put a big metal plate all around the hole to support it and it hasnt failed yet.