Quote Originally Posted by Snubby View Post
This is very inspirational. I have a 93' Sprint 286 I bought back in 2018 I need to go through and do the same. Wasn't planning to buy the boat just the motor, showed up and made an offer. Seller accepted but didn't have a way to take motor off the transom. So he threw in the boat and trailer in for free. It's a salvage title due to gash in the hull, which isn't bad can be repaired easily. Just cheaper for insurance to pay the claim. Not sure what I can do with a salvage titled boat yet, but luckily I live in MS enforcement on anything is pretty much next to nil boat wise as long as it's got stickers and tags should be OK. Do like the 100% composite hull though so I think I can save it once it cools off some. Good winter project. I will have to go through an watch more of your videos on it.
IMHO they are worth saving. They tried to make a really good boat, but just failed in a couple ways, like using metal staples to attach the deck to the stringers. What they did by doing that is they allowed water to enter the stringers once that metal rusted. Look at my videos, you'll see how bad the stringers were. And also the foam used between all the stringers just soaked up the water, really bad. On top that, where they made holes to spray in that foam was not sealed, so there was a natural entry point for the water. A couple easy changes woulda made it an absolutely fantastic boat. But the good news is, the fiberglass is thick, and it seems like a really tough boat overall. I'll see how it pushes over water later once I git'r done! lol

Best of luck to ya.

Here's the playlist of all the videos for what it's worth.
1996 Sprint 277 - YouTube