The Mariah Owners Club - Do You Think I can Sell It?

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Do You Think I can Sell It?

OK,

I am kind of in a pinch. I have a '99 Z252 that I have owned for 5 years and 2 seasons ago the motor ingested water and needs to be rebuilt or replaced. It had been in inside storage until this summer and I would put the overall boat condition as "good". It needs a wash and wax :)

I did not rebuild it yet because I just finished building a house.

I was planning on updating the faded dash panels (Julianos Hot Rods) and fixing the motor but I could really use the $$ right now.

It is rolling on a 2004 Venture 28' dual axle galvanized trailer with surge brakes.

It is a '99 Z252, 7.4L Bravo 3, Garmin GPSMAP 232, Blaupunkt CD, Polk speakers. Bow and cockpit covers, matching bimini, never used (that I can gather) porta potty. I have the rear sun deck off and was also planning on fixing a tear where the rear hinge is. The motor is torn down to just the block/oil hoses and all parts minus exhaust which went to the dump are there.

Does anyone think I could get $10k for it all? What about parting it out? Everything on this boat is original and you can't find it anymore, I would think that would make it worth some consideration. This thing really is at 95% perfect the problem is that 5% is the motor :(

- Mike

I think it's possible you could get somewhere close that price for it. Give or take about $1k. If you decide to list it, make sure and include what happened to the motor, and the words "project boat" and "needs engine repair", somewhere in the description. Chances are, someone can just repair the engine and have a great boat for a reasonable price.

Parting it out would help some people out, but then when it's all said and done, you've still got a hull missing a lot of irreplaceable parts to sell. That'll definitely decrease the final value. Keep that in mind. You could sell off the bimini top, the gps and the stereo stuff though. Most people end up replacing a stereo when they buy a boat these days.

BTW, I can't remember, how did you ingest water into the motor?

I lost an elbow gasket and didn't catch it, rusted out 1 bank of cylinders over winter.

I'm in the market for a Mariah. What's the status?

The only thing wrong with the boat is the motor. All options were working when the boat was stored and I assume they still work now. It has every option you could imagine, including the GPS that I added and the upgraded stereo/speakers. I found the issue when I pulled my exhaust to replace them, I had noticed a rust spot on the side of the motor, this prompted me to remove the exhaust and this brought on the removal of the heads to find one bank of cylinders rusted and most likely seized.

I really love the boat but I also don't see myself fixing it anytime soon.

For issues that bug me/need fixing:

Needs at minimum a rebuild/head job but a longblock or even drop in is way easy to find. I have looked at over 10 motors in the last year but had to put every penny into my house.

There is one scratch on the hull that should be marinetex'd.

There are some small dings and dents, all stickers are in tact minus the very small hull pinstripe that I removed because 25% of it was missing.

There is a small hole near the rear ladder from where I hit the corner with a rowboat heading out one day. NO where near water and could easily be marinetex'd.

The rear sundeck needs a new list support system, after 10 years the plywood is flexing and is a bear to lift (since the 252s only have one electric lift on the left side the sundeck flexes as it raises, I put in 2x 125lb gas lifts and that worked perfect. It has a small rip near where the rear hinge is, no biggy, just always bugged me.

The rear bench seat also has a small tear in it, no biggy just bugged me. If you know the layout of these boats this is the way into the boat as you need a 32"+ inseam to get over the gunwhales :yes_grin:

All of the fake wood grain paneling is faded, I had contacted a place in FL that does hot rod dash boards and was quoted $800 to redo every piece in the boat, I never got around to it :)

All guages/switches/options work. I have the circuit breakers disconnected because I bought all new connectors to reconnect all of the breakers. If you have seen how this was done at the factory you would scream, all breakers have piggy backs on them to daisy chain the +12V feeds together. I had a lose connection on the main breaker that goes to the engine and it would quit when I hit a wave :) The better way to do it is with a terminal strip and I had bought all the connectors and heat shrink to do it over correctly.

Has the captains call, bravo 3 with 24p props is in mint condition.