I need help pricing my Uncles C-Dory for sale.

Nice looking boat Chris....

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Great Fishing Machine!

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I/O Diesel


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~260 or so hours!


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Nice Interior, 4 real seats!

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Kind of a blank slate for electronics but with a little updating, provides a great platform to work from!

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HIN

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Chris, very nice. Would be nice to have some more detailed pix of the trailer, particularly the wheel/brake area and the outdrive.

You/and he, have a winner here, it doesn't look like it's been neglected at all!

Charlie
 
WOW. its amazing how much there is the same and how much there is different between your 27 and mine.

and before I say anything else. Can I have the steering wheel. Very cool looking. Not sure it will fit my helm, but still cool looking

Well all the heavy gear on the back deck is for commercial troll fishing. Which is what these boats where built for in the first place. that's why they have such large storage under the decks. Your best bet is to sell that it a consignment shop that deals with commercial fishing. Or craigslist in Seattle , fort bragg, where ever there is a troll fishery still going. You may want to ask your uncle if he still has a permit. you can sell those too.

Your hull looks the same as mine for the most part but your cabin is laid out different. You have the head forward under the v-berth as oppose to my stand up head aft of the table. Now that gives you more deck space but you have to wake someone out of bed to use it.
Your galley is similar to what I had before rebuilding it. You are also short a closet that would have been opposite the head.

All in all I think this would make a great boat. It needs cleaning and a lot of work but the basic boat looks ok. I really like the speed and fuel numbers posted from the manufacturer. The real question is whether it runs and what shape the motor and out drive are in. If you did a lot of work on the boat cleaning it up and insuring that the motor and out drive worked you could get up to what every some one is willing to pay. As a comparison I paid close to 40k for mine but that was with new motors , full canvas, Modern electronic and radar.

If I was going to buy yours in the unknown and untested condition that it is in It would be a lot lower. You have rare find but its in unknown condition at this point and you need to find a buyer that can deal with all the work that needs to be done. Most of that work looks cosmetic but the engine is a unknown until you get it started up. It could be a diamond in the ruff. If I have a large shop and did not want to sleep in the house this winter :shock: I would make you a offer.
 
Thanks for the info. Nice eye on the steering wheel. It’s off a Model-T. I’m going to be in contact with my uncle tomorrow and discuss our next move. He lives an hour and a half from me, so I would imagine getting the boat closer to work on it would be the next move. Maybe list it here as “make an offer” to see what kind of nibbles we get, at the same time starting to clean it. Fortunately, I have two very close friends that are boat owners and are very knowledgeable. I’m sure they can help me with the engine. After we know the condition of the motor and it’s clean we can list it for a more specific price on multiple sites and contact a consignment seller to see what the options are for that.
 
From the looks of the valve cover, that engine is a real Volvo 4-cylinder in-line engine, not an American engine converted to marine use.

In my experience, the larger V-8 Volvo Marine Engines are GM/Chevolet small blocks converted over to marine use by Volvo. I've never seen a big-block Volvo, but ........?

That 4-cylinder Volvo will run 200k-400k miles in a car, if taken care of properly.

Marine application life would depend a lot on engine loading and operating conditions, including keeping engine created moisture removed, changing oil and filters frequently , and whether salt water was circulated in the engine, etc.

It's a much tougher operating environment!

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
For sure having a running engine will be a big factor in being able to sell the boat. Have one of your boat friends help you in hooking up an "ear muff" water flush to the stern drive, charge up the batteries and see if you can crank it up. Before you put it in the water you should probably have a marine mechanic check out the stern drive bellows and the tilt trim (and make sure you put the transom plug in). Whatever it's condition, that boat will probably sell, but having it running and in good mechanical condition will certainly help the price. There is a power troll fishery in South East Alaska, so the South East Alaska Craigs list would be a good place to advertise it. I'm not much of a fisherman, so I'm not sure if those power gurdies are legal for sport fishing - but I'm pretty sure they would sell separately from the boat in South East Alaska, or wherever else commercial power trolling is legal. There is a commercial salmon trolling forum online http://www.salmontrolling.com/viewforum.php?f=9&sid=422a8418155aade8a8a4b2390d9e6015 which might also be a good place to list the boat and/or gurdies. I bought my c-dory 27 for $28,000 about 7 or 8 years ago. It had a (much higher time) gas engine, and a quite different cabin layout. Good luck.
 
I purchased a 30 foot "Trawler" with a 6 Cyl 40 series Volvo of the same vintage (about 150 hp). The asking price was 40K--because of condition, eventually paid $25,000. This was actually a 32 foot boat, because of transom extension--had berths of 6, with an aft cabin, but was limited to about 12 knots.

I fixed the boat up, used it for a couple of years and sold it easily for $35,000. Granted it was not a C Dory, but it sold very easily as a running and cosmetically beautiful boat.

If I was in the market today for that type of boat, I would offer you $20,000 subject to a survey, and the engine running. (This does not necessarily mean in top condition). I think this combination of the diesel OD and the C Dory is a great combination.

Before I attempted to start that engine, I would first change out all fluids, Probably pull the injectors, and squirt some light oil into each cylinder. Then turn the engine over, with the "STOP" solenoid engaged--so the engine would not start. However even before attempting to do that I would at least rock the flywheel back and forth to be sure that all bearings were free. (actually doing this when the injectors were out, relieves any compression, and makes manual turning better).

To get the best price, I would have a Volvo mechanic go over the engine--may need new injectors. I believe that this engine has a turbo--and that should be serviced before running up RPM over 2400 or so.

Then go to the cosmetics, and I suspect that this boat will shine up nicely. If the colored stripes don't then you can paint with something like "perfection"--and make it look nice.

I agree that this is definitely set up for commercial trolling--and that should be the target market. There may be some C Dory owner or want-a be who is looking for this type of boat--and for them this will be a great boat.

I wouldn't do any thing with the electronics--they are very dated, and any buyer will factor that in, and want to buy his own electronics.

Good luck with the sale--and you have done a great job of presenting the photos and literature available!
 
That is a really cool boat. I also like Aiviq and Tom's 27. The 27 has a huge cockpit for fishing as well as all the good stuff inside.
 
The funny thing is that the documents posted by Chris show my boat , the bottom one, shows the fuel tanks toward the rear and the hatches towards the cabin. Buy my boat is the other way around with the tanks against the cabin. Both of the other 27 I have seen have the tanks in the rear and the fish hatches at the cabin. I think they just made them to order one at a time.
 
Sorry I have not posted anything recently. Work has been crazy. The tentative plan is to move the boat close to me, just after Halloween. My friend turns his drive way in to an extensive haunted house every year and throws a big party. When we git it here we will spend the next week working on the engine and cleaning it up. Then we will see what we have. Thanks for all the help.
 
Chris, paint it orange and black (with water based paint), put a for sale sign on it and sell it to a bunch of kids!

Charlie
 
Sorry it’s been so long since my last post, but we are finally ready to move forward on the sale of my uncle’s boat. It took a long time to coordinate a trip out to my uncle’s house to get a better look at the engine. I was waiting tell a good friend of mine (who builds engines for Toyota racing) was able to come. The good news is the engine turned over fine and ran good. The bad news is that when it was in storage for so many years, someone broke in and striped the throttle and steering cables. Because of this, the engine took off and would not shut off. Luckily my friend new what to do. He pulled the fuel hose (that we had bypassed to take fresh fuel from a gas can, not the tank) and choked the air intake tell the engine died. It only ran for about 25-30 seconds but it did run.
So what we have gained from this is that the engine (the main selling point of this boat with only 269 hrs) does work, but the boats it self my need a little TLC. Now I need to get some informed opinions on a selling price for the boat, so I can list it in the appropriate places. Again, sorry for the wait and I do appreciate the help.
 
Good Luck with the sale of your boat!

Looking through your album, I see you hasve a brochure for the CD-27 I've never seen before.

Starcraft Tom may want to copy it and add it to his album to insure that it doesn't somehow get lost in the shuffle when the boat it sold and transferred.

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Joe. :teeth :thup
 
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