1pescadoloco

Last week I bought a 2005 Pathfinder 2200V with a 150HP Yamaha four stroke. This thread is about that experience and getting her back into showroom shape. The motor had 137hrs on it when I sea trialed her. Which was a good news bad news kind of thing. Good news, really low hours on the motor so wont need to repower for a very long time. Bad news, the owner did maintenance on the hours & no annual or bi-annual. So the bill for fixing the stuff that had been neglected was a little higher than anticipated.

I want to thank Pete Sr, Pete Jr & Mac at Ships Chandler in Destin for their maticulus work getting the motor & systems up to snuff. They did a great job @ a very resonable price. They also helped the seller realize that the value of his boat was less due to maintenance issues he had not addressed.

I also want to thank Eddie English over at Boat Trailer .com in Milton for a great job rebuilding the trailer & delivering it when promised. Eddie is fun to watch move around his place @ mach 3 with his hair on fire. The trailer had sat in the woods for 7 years. If you look up how to ruin a trailer. it will say leave it in the woods.

The plastic cover on top of the trolling motor had crystalized, so that is on order.
She really needs a spit polish & wash inside & out. I'm vasilating between doing it myself & having someone do it properly.

More updates & pics as I get her prettied up.

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Garbo

Nice Boat.

Something you may want to consider is RePowering. Being that it is currently powered by a F150 which is at the bottom of the power scale if not underpowered, it would make some since that the outboard has worked harder than a more powerful outboard would have for the past 137hours, meaning more wear and more tear. Plus with proper power the performance upgrade would be amazing.


Good Luck, and keep us updated.


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1pescadoloco

I was initially skeptical about the 150hp being a little light. However, I really don't think I need more power. She did 50 knots at 5500rpm & 30 knots @ about 3500rpm. 3500rpm is in the middle of the power band & optimum for fuel mileage. If I wanted to go really fast, I would consider a bigger motor. I've been at 70mph in a flats boat, really not interested in doing that again. I'm just not in that big of a hurry anymore.

I would not consider her to be underpowered when she gets up on plane in under 4 seconds & tops out over 50knots.

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Garbo

That's Cool, but your stating your "not in that big of a hurry anymore", but then you state "you get up on plane under 4 seconds and top out over 50knots".

Look It's all Good, but just keep in mind when you are jumping up on plane in under 4 seconds and topping out at over 50knots, you may not be but that little F150 back there is doing all it can do and working extremely hard to do something that a large motor could do with much less effort, energy, wear and tear.

It was just a suggestion.



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Splittine

+1.

1pescadoloco

That was a sea trial to see what she could do & make sure she had enough power when needed. Now I'm just gonna put around unless I have to get out of someones way in a hurry.

BTW Thanks for the suggestion.

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oxbeast1210

Nice boat pescadoloco ! when are we going fishing ??

1pescadoloco

I still have more repairs to do & a long list of folks I know that want to go fishing.

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1pescadoloco

Well I spent a good part of the day trying to get some of the grime off.

Orange clean & purple power worked great on the greasy areas, the green crud on the trailer & general dirty grimey areas.

I got most of the rust stain out of the release well with rust removers & bleach. It's tough getting a rust stain from a steel bait net off of fiberglass.

Full strength Attwood hull cleaner & a stiff deck brush got most of the oak leaf stains off
the deck.

I'm still trying stuff on the hull. Probably going to have someone compound & polish it to get the tannin stains off.

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FISHBOXFULL

nice boat, good luck finding the fish. you sound like you have my luck, finally go out and buy something and right off the bat your getting told whats wrong with it.