Ran and purchased yesterday. Getting it installed tonight. Can’t wait.

Looks like I have made my decision. Thanks Fellas!

Thank you for all the replies. I will check out some of the ones mentioned. I would prefer aluminum. Must be side console or dual console (had a near death experience with my old tiller so the wife won’t get in one without a steering wheel now). I also would like something rated for at-least 90HP. I envision this next boat having a 90 or a 115 on it. Thanks again.

I figure I should still be able to get a decent used boat (2005-2012) for 9-16K. Is this reasonable? The one I talked about above that I slipped up on sold for 14 and that was a hot market.

Thank you all! I really appreciate it. Sh*t I might buy two now

grubson wrote:

The lakes in Savannah state park near McGregor are electric motors only. They have a couple multi species lakes and a lake stocked with stream trout.

This looks like a nice area. Maybe we will give it a try. I just cant picture myself driving to Minneapolis for a “vacation”

Mostly walleye, pike, and crappie

Update: I was able to get ahold of the previous owner and he was able to get ahold of the WI DNR and get a duplicate registration. He’s sending it directly to my house. Saving a ton of hassle. There are still some pretty darn great people in this world.

I’ll be good to go now.

I agree with Browndog, unfortunately for me I think you are correct. I am going to try and track the guy down first. But ultimately if he cannot find the registration, I will have to go the bonding route.

Hopefully it doesn’t take the whole 6 weeks.

Update: I decided to do it the right way and bring it up to my name first before I sell it.

Problem is, previous owner only gave me a bill of sale with the hull number on it and such. I never got a registration from from him. It’s weird he has MN address but the registration tags on the boat are WI.

Can I just bring the bill of sale to Iowa Recorders Office and they take care of the rest? I have no clue how to contact this guy to get the registration.

Browndog wrote:

Generally they will need you to apply for a title. It is fairly straight forward, as they want you to fill out a form and have the VIN# verified by the DNR. They will run the VIN# against theft/etc. and I believe there is a 3-6 month wait period. Once that period has passed, they allow you to title the vessel in your name.

We just went through this selling an ATV without a title. I was told the process is similar for a boat or any other recreational toy. Ours took right around 90 days.

No title is needed. It doesn’t need a title to be registered (because it is 14.5′). Sounds like a lot of extra pointless work to me. Not even trying to sound snarky just speaking from what I have been told. ATV’s might be a completely different story.

Thanks guys! The guy I bought it from never even transferred to his name. So I never transferred to my name. The bill of sale he gave me was literally a bar napkin if I recall correctly.

I’m just going to write a bill of sale and call it good. Hopefully it goes to someone in WI or IA I guess.

I ended up buying an Marcum M2 from a buddy for 200 bucks. Thank you all for the help though!

If anyone has one they would let go for cheaper please shoot me a message. I mostly fish the Mississippi so never grew up with them but I decided I want to try one this year (going on a lake trip). Looking to pay around $150. Younger kid and the budget is tight haha.

Thank you in advance.