Step 1

The first thing we had to do was get the boat cleaned up all the junk off the boat.   It was a real mess.  There was oily water in all the bilges.  Stuff scattered everywhere.  This took me about 3 and a half days.

Once I had the boat cleaned up, I could evaluate the condition of the boat and what repairs were needed.  The one big surprise, and I do mean BIG Surprise, was the fact that we were going to have to have the transmission pulled out of the boat and sent to the repair shop to have both transmission housings replaced.  This was an unexpected expense.   Luckily, I found this during the period we had for our sea trial, per the buyers contract, and persuaded the seller to split the cost.  The transmission repair ended up costing about $13,000.00.