Thanks Brian,

I thought to myse3lf, I dot' have time for this crap, so I toook it to
a friend of mine who isn't really a mechanic, but used to work part
time for a marine mechanic when in highschool. Not skillfull, but
knowledgeable.

it looked at the bottom, and saw where somebody had welded on the
housing to fill up soe type of crack. We thought that in it's previous
life it had been frozen, but are more covinced that it was hit. We did
siome scraping around inside the drain hole, and found SAND!

ARRRRGH! somebody hit it, did a quick fix (sor of) then threw it on
ebay to get rid of it.

So....

I will say it IS a nice boat and worth more than I gave for it, but I'm
thinking on installing a new bottom end lower half.

Costly, but it's done right.

Thanks!
Tim