My "What do you think about this boat?" thread

Well I am officially a Cobalt owner

The boat checked out ok, as someone earlier in the thread said it has been neglected but not abused. It'll clean up pretty well, sans a few small scratches here and there. Mechanically sound, no structural issues. Bilge pump wasn't working but they are going to replace. One of the captains call solenoids wasn't opening, I checked voltages and it was getting power so not sure on that. The rear deck vinyl has a few relatively small tears, but the rest of the interior does not. Rosewood dash looks a little aged, might be able to bring it back to life with some work. Overall though, it's a good condition boat for being 22 years old.

Spent the afternoon working on the trailer. I got the brakes swapped out and bled. I can't tell if they are working yet though, hard to tell with no weight on the trailer. I'm going to adjust the bunks to fit the boat better tomorrow, they have them pretty far in and the boat sits high on the trailer so their fork lifts can get in there. Ahead of schedule, and really sore from crouching all day.

Anyway, yay! Thanks for all the help, I would have never been as aggressive with the offer without some guidance Now I'm looking forward to getting it home so we can use it a few times before it gets too cold. Shipper has it scheduled for delivery on the 14th or 15th.

 

This weekend has been an adventure! (in a good way ) Now that the work on the trailer is done I am getting a chance to get caught up on everything. Here's a few pics from this weekend. Hopefully the embedding works, I uploaded them to my google drive instead of the forum.

Boat on the trailer I bought, before I did any work to it:




Outdrive


Is this a factory or factory replacement prop?


The boat was never de-winterized this summer, so I had to wait while they did it...


Putting her back away after our test drive. Living in Phoenix, everyone trailers their boats everywhere. I've never seen dry-stack storage in person, it was really cool watching them forklift the boats around.


My trailer workshop, right next door to a Napa auto parts store. Turned out to be very convenient, I was in and out of there several times for various things. I had already replaced the coupler at this point.


First hub/brake mounted


I de-Margie'd the boat this afternoon so they would wet sand this area too instead of working around it.

 

They started in on the wet sanding this afternoon. The little bit that was done looked really good, really helped the color and made almost all of the scratches disappear. He is going to go over it a second time, then buff-polish, so I think it's going to look pretty good when it's finished.




That's all I have. Got a bimini and full cover ordered for it this afternoon, caught the tail end of the iBoats sale. Trying to track down a replacement actuator for the starboard side captain's call that's not working. Other than that, I'll be looking forward to delivery on the 14th or 15th

 

Transport picked up this morning, I'm guessing it'll be here Thursday. Will start a new thread on receipt for future upgrades.