2011 Tige 24ve for sale $15k !

[MarkL]

Believe it or not this isn't a scam. This place is an insurance salvage yard. I live close by and I went and looked at a 2009 Tige 22ve not to long ago just because. In that instance, an insurance company had written the whole boat off after a branch broke the windshield frame and Tige no longer made the replacement frame in the original black color. Its amazing what insurance companies do.

Anyhow, water leaking through the swim step is more concerning than a windshield frame so you'll have to do your homework beyond just puling the dipstick, but its a steep discount if all is well.

http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/2011...s#.VkoIC7erQeM

Sorry if i'm violating rules here by posting the link. I don't often read directions first, just hope this helps someone.

Cheers

[IDBoating]

I don't like the color of that starboard Catanium exhaust chamber. Looks like it got really hot, which raises some troubling questions.

Might be a good buy for someone to part it out.

[Timmy!]

I don't like the color of that starboard Catanium exhaust chamber. Looks like it got really hot, which raises some troubling questions.

Might be a good buy for someone to part it out.

Are you talking about the gold color? I think someone spray painted it that color, you can see overspray on the bottom engine hoist brackets.

[Bryan]

So they totaled this boat because it took on water and toasted the electrical system? Sure seams like insurance would fix that before writing off the whole boat. It says the oil is clean and the motor cranks....

[boatwakes]

Don't pay more than $5k for it and even that would be too much.

[IDBoating]

Are you talking about the gold color? I think someone spray painted it that color, you can see overspray on the bottom engine hoist brackets.

Perhaps. But why "paint" only one side? The top view (below) shows the other side isn't colored like this - except at the very front, where it would be hottest, where it is starting to take on that color.

Also, those brackets have the same surface treatment (paint?) as the risers and cat converters, so if the latter got hot, maybe the heat started conducting through the brackets and changed their color too. Would have been easy to mask them off. Note too that the bolt heads don't look oversprayed, which if the brackets got sprayed you'd think the bolt heads would have been too.

Not sure, just sharing observations.

[Bryan]

So just out of curiosity.. What would make those change color like that? Would it be an overheating issue? Why only one side? And if the exhaust gas was hot enough to do that wouldn't some of the rubber hoses be melted, or why didn't the color transfer past the joint between manifold and the cross pipe in the pic above? Just thinking out loud, I have no dog in the fight. I'm happy with my boat. Just saying... Even if the motor is shot, wouldn't the rest of the boat be worth it? How much does an engine swap cost?

[UNSTUCK]

I'm not familiar with boat cats, but you'll never see a car cat painted. Why? Because cats get VERY hot. That is normal. They would discolor paint the first time the engine was started. So that doesn't concern me too much. If I could personally inspect the boat I would be there in a heart beat.

[lilkw]

I don't recall seeing any other exhaust burnt like that, I would assume it got overheated somehow or another.

[IDBoating]

I'm not familiar with boat cats, but you'll never see a car cat painted. Why? Because cats get VERY hot.

The Catanium exhausts on my EX343 are that greyish color, standard exhausts on EX343 are black, and both look and feel "painted" to me. Otherwise are you saying that grey is the metal's natural color? Virtually certain that's not the case.

I don't think boat exhausts get as hot as automobile cat converters, since the former are water cooled. So they may have found a paint that can take the heat of a boat exhaust - at least until it really overheats, in which case I think we're looking at photographic evidence of what happens.

[sandm]

engine compartment is missing the back panel indicating that someone has been rooting around with it. I would go into that purchase assuming it needs a rebuild.

[UNSTUCK]

The Catanium exhausts on my EX343 are that greyish color, standard exhausts on EX343 are black, and both look and feel "painted" to me. Otherwise are you saying that grey is the metal's natural color? Virtually certain that's not the case.

I don't think boat exhausts get as hot as automobile cat converters, since the former are water cooled. So they may have found a paint that can take the heat of a boat exhaust - at least until it really overheats, in which case I think we're looking at photographic evidence of what happens.

I have no doubt it's painted. Otherwise it would turn a dark dark brown/black or turn bluish. Paint always seems to turn a light brown when it burns.
Typically in a car a cat will plug up and fail due to bad gas or too much gas not getting burned in the engine and then burning in the cat making it even hotter. If the operator continues to run the engine (if it will stay running because of the plugged exhaust) the pistons will start to melt.
Being water cooled brings up another option. Maybe the water pump failed or started to fail. The exhaust would be the first place to loose water as it sits the highest on the engine, causing it to overheat and change color.

Either way, it seems unlikely to me that the engine failed at the same time the boat filled up with water. I'd guess at some point on the day the boat sank, the engine was running well enough. So unless the owner is being sneaky and sunk the boat after he killed the engine, my guess is the engine is ok.

[dakota4ce]

Looks like a great deal for someone who is NOT ME. Looks like a good place for gremlins to live for years to come.

[WakerideN]

guess my take would be hook it up to a hose and see if fires... and go from there. just evaluate if the cost to make it like it should is worth the price being asked. but for the right person, with the right know how, it might be a steal.


and as far as that being paint... LOL. look at the orange label on the other side... that is heat and scorch folks. Not paint. that thing cooked! looks just like a melted down catalytic converter if you ask me.

[91Terminator]

Ya that is not painted for sure. I have seen a few PCM cat motors over heat in my day and that is the color they turn. Also for them to turn that color that much and all over the manifold that motor was well over 250* for a while. I bet if you took them off you would see blisters on the insides of them all over, also from that picture its almost a guarantee the block is cracked. Whats very interesting to me is the ones I have seen get hot and discolor at the top where the cat is first and this one is very dark down by the head so it must have been very hot in the cyls area. bet money if you pulled the dip stick it would be milky.

There is no way an insurance company would pay off an entire boat when they could get both windshields from the manufacturer for probably around 5 or 6K with shipping and labor. but if it needs 6k in that and 10 to 13K in a motor and god knows what else happened to cause both those items it could be totaled.