I present to you,
My midlife crisis manifest. The Boat.
Perhaps I should be more descriptive. After a decade and a half of not owning a boat for a number of reasons such as cost, time, children, family, time, the inability to choose a particular model, time, and the fact that I don’t have time (are we seeing a pattern here?); an opportunity to purchase a project boat recently came up.
Me being a house broken husband, I immediately showed my wife pictures of said project boat, long story short: She said buy it…. five minutes later I had an agreement with the seller and a delivery date. (One does not waste time when one’s wife is on board with a crazy idea.)
So: Now I have a boat. The boat was purchased for an absurdly low price (possibly because she’s currently a hulk of a million different projects). The trailer came with it, and the price I paid was worth it for the functioning trailer alone.
What condition is the boat in? Well…
There are a great number of things that have to be done for this boat to be seaworthy much less where I want her to be… but that’s the fun right?
What I know right now:
- Never been named according to original owner
- Manufactured by Sunrunner (XUE) which has been out of business since the 90s
- HIN indicates manufactured in 1986
- Title paperwork states it’s a 1987 model year
- I’m not entirely sure what the actual model is, but after research I think it’s a 1986 Sunrunner CV 210 or a CV 220. There’s no identifying plate in the boat to confirm that.
- She needs a lot of work.
As to her name, when I’m finished restoring her, she will be named: “The Lost Marble“. Let’s see where this goes.