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Its down to $12k now. Somebody buy it quick!

http://greensboro.craigslist.org/boa/555037085.html

Jbear,
I will be moving in on Nov 30th , We got a rental house in West Knoxville off of Ebenezer Rd. Would love to come up to Norris to Check out your place, Reid tells me it is nice.
I will be looking for property. Would love to meet up with you soon if you are not in Fla.

Mike

It would be a pleasure to see some one get it clean it up, restore it. I am sure someone from this site would love to have it, heck for 500 bucks I would love to have it. But the sportsman in not a model that I really do not have much interest in. Like Paul said it is an interesting fossil that has been hanging in its cave for many a year and it would be great to see someone get her going again, just for a reasonable price. Does it have a trailer ???

So would I, maybe one of us can do that within the next couple of weeks. I wonder if someone "cleaned it up" hanging right there in the boathouse. The water has been down most of the summer on Badin Lake because of the drought.

pc

Yes, that is the $20K Sportsman!!!

Hollywood, I am no relation to the Chris Carpenter that posted the Sportsman. I don't think he is any relation to the family that owns the boat either. I just think he is ONE of the NC residents that have seen the boat in person and pondered the possiblilty of buying it. I think Mike (nautiquefrk) may have seen it first, and he certainly would have bought it if the price was right. I was way down the line in seeing it and that was last summer. It is not something I would have bought anyway, but the "moth balled" originality of the boat was interesting to see.

pc

No need to explain to me. I'm familiar with the concepts of hypocrisy, irony, and sarcasm. BKH

So if the boat wasn't even worth $3500, and if the boat is "not really a rare boat anyway" then what's the big deal. Seems like much ado about nothing. BKH

MartyMabe simply doesn't know what he is talking about. Even he stated himself.."I opened my big mouth and said you could get $10,000 to $15,000 out of that boat if you cleaned it up."

A few people on this board have seen the boat in person, and nautiquefrk is EXACTLY correct! This boat wasn't worth what they were asking for it then.....or one of us would have bought it!

MartyMabe may be the reason so many of these boats remain rotting in boathouses or barns around here. Maybe he got to them and with his "expertise" as a Correct Craft appraiser, ran the price through the stratosphere.

Maybe MartyMabe deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for keeping rotting Correct Crafts united with their owners!!!

Just my opinion, and I didn't say one bad word!

pc   

It's just not worth what they were asking before and definitely not worth what they want now.
Leave it there for another 20 years, Its not really a rare boat anyway. Some people are crazy on what they think some of these boats are worth. I have looked at many Correct Crafts over the years in Fields,Barns etc... and you are basically looking at a boat that you would totally need to rebuild and they want 5 grand plus for it because thats what they paid when it was new. I have left many just rotting away because of that. Sad but true !!!!

The lifting rings will probably wear through and it will crash into the dirt under the boat because there is no water.
On Lake Wylie where I am I cant put either of my boats in off the lifts we are 6 ft down from normal.