46 Convertible

[post42]

Anyone know anything about the 1977 46 Hatteras sportfish called Skip Dot in Pampano Florida? I am interested in buying her. Has 385 hp 871's with 3500 hours. Seems pretty clean.

 

[rsmith]

Doesn’t look bad for 70k new phasor gen and ac. Engines are 8/71TI should be like 425hp not 385 probably broker mistake. Markets going south quick from what I’ve seen in price drops lately OPEC is hammering oil prices and our government thinks it’s good. Seems all the stoopid money from the Covid mentality that we’re all gonna die and I’ll pay anything before I do is drying up. Wouldn’t be afraid of making an offer.

 

[Captain Ralph]

Sorry, I'm not to savvy in finding exact sales ads. Can you please post the sales web address?

 

[Briankinley2004]

Agree on not being afraid of making an offer. I have the same boat, 83 model, with alot of extras. I did a trade so no sales data. Surveyor put her at around 95K on the insurance survey. Engines have about 600 hrs on documented rebuild. I haven't seen the boat you reference but if it is clean the price is probably in the right neighborhood but you should be able to get for less in this market.

 

[jim rosenthal]

Is it on YW?

 

[rsmith]

Local listing.

 

[rsmith]

46 was always a good looking boat especially with a tower

 

[rsmith]

Just my take but before I put an offer on any of these older boats I’d give the owner some fuel money and get him to take me for a short ride. You want to make sure the engines turn up WOT 2300 rpm with not too much smoke. I don’t care about the BS start up test all these turbo boats will smoke until they get some temp and the crap quality of fuel these days makes it worse. If it won’t turn up you know you have issues that need to be resolved and so does the owner who will be softened up on your offer. We did this when we bought our 50 the engines only turned up 1800 and were blowing smoke. The owner knocked 40k off the price and we never did an engine survey because we factored overhauls in the price reduction. We changed filters threw our gear on the boat and headed to Bimini for the giant tuna run. By the time we got there the smoke cleared up and we were hitting 2300 rpm. Engines just needed to be run. 6000 hours and 20 years later we finally had them overhauled. 71 series Detroits are damn near bulletproof unless you run them out of water or oil. Even hurt they will keep on running.

 

[bostonhatteras]

Just my take but before I put an offer on any of these older boats I’d give the owner some fuel money and get him to take me for a short ride. You want to make sure the engines turn up WOT 2300 rpm with not too much smoke. I don’t care about the BS start up test all these turbo boats will smoke until they get some temp and the crap quality of fuel these days makes it worse. If it won’t turn up you know you have issues that need to be resolved and so does the owner who will be softened up on your offer. We did this when we bought our 50 the engines only turned up 1800 and were blowing smoke. The owner knocked 40k off the price and we never did an engine survey because we factored overhauls in the price reduction. We changed filters threw our gear on the boat and headed to Bimini for the giant tuna run. By the time we got there the smoke cleared up and we were hitting 2300 rpm. Engines just needed to be run. 6000 hours and 20 years later we finally had them overhauled. 71 series Detroits are damn near bulletproof unless you run them out of water or oil. Even hurt they will keep on running.

I ran one of my 871s an entire season with a shut off injector and a burned valve. dropped 2 knots overall. in frame the next winter.