title         = 'Trayder\'s 1994 27 Boston Whaler Offshore 27';
intro         = 'This is my recently acquired 1994 Offshore 27. I am the 2nd owner. The first owner purchased her new from Lauderdale Marine in 1996. The boat was used as a tender to a larger sportfishing boat and as a \"Taxi\" for the original owner from Palm Beach, Florida to the Abacos in the Bahamas. I purchased the boat in January of 2005 after locating the boat on www.yachtworld.com the listing was brief, 1994 27 offshore 1994, Evinrude 225\'s, no electronics, good condition. The listing broker knew very little about the boat, other than what I mentioned before. All else was determined from a surveyor and myself after flying down to Florida to purchase and move the boat to a good friends home in Stuart, Florida.<br><br>The surveyor found many minor issues with the boat that were related to a few years of sitting in the Bahamian sun. Many of the plastic fittings were etching away, the black trim was fading, a few pumps needed replacing, the only major issue was a soft section in the fuel tank cavity hatch, and as we all know , this is easily fixed. The surveyor also determined that the twin Evinrude 225 engines were not 1994\'s but were 1996\'s and that the electronics on the boat were more than adequate including a RayMarine ST5000 autopilot, Icom DSC VHF, and a new(er) Furuno 1850DF color fishfinder/chartplotter. Needless to say I was more than pleased ';
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majorCaption  = new Array( '', '', '', '', 'Super, 30 mins messing around with outboard muck and now 25mph breeze and torrental rain in the intracoastal, at least it is not the snow we left in RI. (check out the windshield wipers!!)', '', 'After another month of terrible New England weather myself and some friends had enough and went down to Stuart to take advantage of the new acquisition before she was picked up by the truck for the journey north.', '', 'Some pictures of the boat before she was picked up by the Trucking company for the 1400 mile trip up to Rhode Island', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', 'After a 1 month delay the boat finnaly arives in Rhode Island and although the Truckers Trailer went through 4 Tires.....the boat made it unharmed.', '', '', '', '', 'After pushing the limits of the crane and having to leapfrog across the yard to get the whaler in a good location this was my welcome!!! BTW this photo was more recent as you can see I have already started to remove the original bottom paint which was painted 5 inched to high at the stern and 1 inch to low in the bow..', 'To begin work the tackle center, fuel hatch (to be re-cored), and fishbox hatches were removed to gain better access to crutial areas for inpection and replacement.', 'First step was to remove the fuel deck hatch, strip the rotten plywood core (sorry I forgot the camera when I was taking the rotton core out but trust me it resembled a fine landscaping mulch). 2/3 of the core was shot the remaining 1/3 was fine and I found a surprise....that 2.5 x 2.5 foot section towards the aft is a 3/4 aluminim stock that is laminated into the deck. I am assuming Boston Whaler put it there as a provision for a fighting chair. Although I never plan on putting a fighting chair in the boat I decided against removing the stock as it was firmly in place and I did not want to risk comprimising the non-skid on the other side should the aluminum plate prove to be more than stubborn. I replaced the rotten core with ATC Core Cell and and coverd it Poly resin and a special fabric high strenghth low weight cloth from Johnson Fabrics.', '', '', '', '', '', 'The Fish Box hatches were littered with stess cracks that need to be fixed', 'A dremel tool was used to remove the cracked gel coat. ', 'A mixture of tinted gel-coat mixed with cabosil was used to fill the area that was bored out with the Dremel tool', 'Finished waiting for new deck latches', 'Mounting new antennas and the RADAR array', '', 'Finishing the detail work, the bow rail was at the welders', 'New OEM W.M.Mills canvas', '', 'Launch day!!', 'Brownell Boatworks came down from Massachusetts to haul the boat to the ramp, .5 mile away', '', '', '', 'Mooring at 2nd Beach in Middletown', 'New mooring off Ocean drive in Newport', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '' );
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