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    Posted: March-24-2019 at 7:05pm
I was looking at a 1978 south wind 18. The person who has the boat has never started it he bought at auction and never did anything with it. It has a 351 ford engine. The interior is pretty nice for a 1978 and the hull looks good. The left stringer is a little soft about 12inches in front of the transom. I can get the boat for $800 I was just curious what everyone’s thoughts where on this boat and if you think it’s worth buying. I turned the motor over by hand . But didn’t have a battery to try and start it but I figured for $800 not to expect to much
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Does it come with a usable trailer?

You should cost in a stringer project, that alone would be more than $800.

If you want a project, go for it, but it would most likely not be a turn-key purchase.
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The boat does have a trailer. And I’m not expecting it to be turn key. I thought this south wind was a cool looking vintage boat and I really like the deep v Hull.
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It's probably worth 800 in parts as-is and probably will need work and more money to make it sea worthy.
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Like Chris said, if you're looking for a project ....   Don't know what they would sell for in 80-90% condition when done, so I can't comment on the "worth" of the project.   But looking at a stringer job would put me off rather quickly. I just don't have that kind of time - or space - to take on a project like that.   Paying a shop to do the work would almost definitely be cost prohibitive as well.   But if you have the time, space and are up for a lot of work, I do think that would be a great family boat when you got it done.
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