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This boat has been setting for a few years now near where I live in a vacant lot. Shame to see it rotting away. Anyone heard of it?

Is it an "S" model? I saw one posted on a sales website that was down there that had some damage listed and for a really cheap price...

You may consider running the TX registration number thru public records for the owner I.D.
Nice deals are available -- and this may be worth the research.

Good Luck !

Steve wrote:...near where I live in a vacant lot.

Wow, I heard times were tough in Tennessee, but... geez...

May be that's Vagrant Lot?? :>

...I lived for three years in a hole in the ground covered by a twig ...

Times don't have to be hard for people to treat boats in such a disrespectful way .
Montgomery marina is full of boats that were , once beautiful when they were put in the water, but now are nothing but floating derelicts .

What I can not understand , for the life of me, is that they are paying slip rent on these boats every month !
Rich or poor , how can they make a rent payment every month on a boat , they haven't visited in years ?

We had a doctor , long time ago , docked next to us , that used his cabin cruiser as a floating motel room. He would pick up women at the Marina Bar , and take them down to his boat .
The boat hadn't moved in years , literally had weeds growing out of the outdrive.
One day it disappeared , we figure his wife must have caught on to what He was doing.

Ahhh..the wonders of the marine economy...

what happens is the owner falls on hard times, stops paying slip fees, the marina owner cant rent the slip, but title/mechanics liens are hard to enforce...ergo the boat slowly entropies away...

Catigale wrote:Ahhh..the wonders of the marine economy...

what happens is the owner falls on hard times, stops paying slip fees, the marina owner cant rent the slip, but title/mechanics liens are hard to enforce...ergo the boat slowly entropies away...

Yup.

There was a nice Pearson 36 at my old marina. The guy disappeared and abandoned it. The marina pulled it and put it in the lot for years, mast up, sails on. A storm came and knocked it down, broke the mast. They picked it back up but the boat just rotted away for years. It WAS a nice boat.
Another Hunter sat in the lot same way. Companionway hatch open and I'm sure it was full of rain and nasties. Made me sad to see it that way. Must have been 15 years like that.

Catigale wrote:Ahhh..the wonders of the marine economy...

what happens is the owner falls on hard times, stops paying slip fees, the marina owner cant rent the slip, but title/mechanics liens are hard to enforce...ergo the boat slowly entropies away...

We have one down at the Marina , a very expensive inboard pontoon boat . its completely covered from bow to stern with a very expensive cover ,,, and ,, chained to the dock .
At Montgomery Marina thats what they do if you fall behind in your slip rent , chain you to the dock.
This one has been chained up for about a year . We speculate that the boat has been repoed and the owner quit paying the rent , but the repo man can't get the boat till the rent is paid .
So it sits slowly rotting away , probably a $40,000.00 boat