1988 Rinker Captiva 206

Well while we were up at the North Higgins Lake State Park we ended up buying a boat. My brother in law told me I needed it like I needed another hole in my head which I agreed that he was probably pretty accurate but we bought it anyways. We actually went up there to look at another boat a 1976 Century Raven which was a 19' closed bow runabout with a Mercruiser 255 engine which in case your not familar with boats like I was when we first started looking at them that is the small block V8 most older Ford trucks had in them. Ended up the guy didn't tell us everything that needed to be done to the boat so shortly after I had allready made all the reservations for the park I found out from the Marine that worked on the boat for the past 30 years that it needed about $2,000 work on the outdrive and George the seller was at 2,000 for the price of the boat too and wouldnt budge which after everything we would have had a 76' boat that all we could do is hope an pray to find parts on that we had $4,000 into and the boat would only book out at maybe $2500. So after we got up there since we couldn't cancell the reservations since it was to late we took it out on the lake and it wasn't running right really sluggish and took about a quarter mile to get up on plane (come up out on top of the water) which with that much motor and that small of a boat it should be up and skimming the top of the water in the first 10ft. So George, Camille, and I ran it over to Old Point Comfort Maine which we found out that when they spring prepped the boat from it being winterized they forgot to put 3 plug wires back on. So back to the lake we go which this time it ran sweet could hear the groul of the V8 lots of power. But while we were at the Marine we saw another boat a 20ft 1988 Rinker which was quite a bit higher than what we wanted to pay but we put in an offer with Bonnie the owner of the Marine along with her husband Jerry and she put it thru to the owner of the boat who came down quite considerably to our suprise. So we slept on the whole situation and came back to the Marine Sunday morning to take the Rinker out for a test drive with Jerry (2) a mechanic there @ the marine. Which the boat ran sweet it had a few minor things wrong that I knew I could fix so I wasnt really worried about it we used that as bartering power and ended up getting the boat for about a $1,000 bucks under what it was actually worth. So it seemed like a pretty safe oppurtunity to own a boat so we towed it home. The blue boat is the Century we test drove and the red and black is the Rinker we now own. It was a fun weekend we met alot of nice people and everyone at Old Point Comfort Marine were extremely personable and looking out for the customers best interest I would highly recomend them to anyone who is in need to have there boat repaired or looking for advice or getting a different boat. Tell them Chad Wetzel sent ya and talk to Jerry or Bonnie. Now we just need all the fun stuff like ski's, tubes, ski rope, etc. always something....