We store our pontoon boat in a large building for the winter with a half dozen other boats. Bring it in the fall, get it out in the spring, pay $X.XX per day.
Got a call yesterday from one of the other tenants. He was getting his boat out and moved mine, but when he tried to back it back in, said the surge brakes were locking up. He left it outside the building. As there was a chance of thunderstorms/hail forecasted, I didn’t want it sitting outside. Wish he would have called me to move my boat in the first place, but oh well. He said he would meet me there if I wanted to open the building as he still had the key.
When I got down there, he fessed up that he was by himself and the skeg caught the concrete as the trailer came of the concrete. He hadn’t tried to trim the motor up. Busted a piece of the skeg and scraped (not bent at all, just scraped the edge) the prop. He used JB Weld to put the piece back on the skeg.
I’m not overly concerned with performance issues, my bigger concern is that we were planning to try to find a larger motor for the boat. What kind of value hit am I going to take for a skeg damage? There is obviously internal lower unit damage, but will a potential buyer or dealer if traded believe that?
Motor is just a couple years old. Yamaha 90 hp four stroke fuel injected outboard.
Thanks for any insight.
JD
