BoatBanter.com - 1987 Celebrity 210 Cuddy Need assistance please!

"Frank Krozel" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
I am considering a 1987 Celebrity 210 Cuddy. It comes with a Mercruiser
5.7L Sterndrive.
I learned my 100HP Johnson through a painful and costly process. (Works
perfect now!)
Any pointers from you gurus? I know nothing about Stern drives.
--
Best Regards, Frank

HI,
I have a 87 celebrity 210 bow rider with the 260HP mercruiser. Nice riding
boat (heavy) lots of teak.
The boat itself, like many of its era, has problems with floor rot.
Check for any soft areas. It is a fiberglass over plywood construction with
foam filling between the floor bottom and hull. Any water that gets into
the floor can't get out and rots the floor. Nasty job to repair.
On mercruser outdrives check the boots. Any cracks and they will need to
be replaced. If outdrive has been left in the raised position for a long
time they will probably be cracked.
Push the drive back and forth. There should be very little play. There
is a rectangular drive that fits into a rectangular hole in the outdrive.
This area rounds over, in time, getting sloppy. Eventually it will round so
much there will be no steering. These boats wander a lot at low speed and so
you use a lot of steering. They are so nimble on plane, though.