There were a couple of reasons. One was I wasn't going to get the use out of it that I thought I would with the seating configuration. I bought it when it was just me and the wife. Now we have a 2.5 year old.
Next, the wife started staying at home with our son so that took some money out of the play account
Also, there is another lake pretty close to here that I want to spend more time on and they are a little more picky about noise.
The boat wasn't fast enough (it never is, right?). I put my top speed on OSO. I think it was just under 66mph. When I went to take it out last year, I found out that I was getting a mist on one of the valve covers. The stbd riser/manifold gasket was leaking. If I'm seeing a mist coming out, I'm probably sucking some water back in. I've got a set of stainless marine dry exhaust that I'm planning on putting on this weekend. We'll see how that goes.
Anyway, the wife is ready to go back to work now and just found out today that she is getting her old job back. So even with our son in day care, we'll have more play money.
The boat that I took the drive, transom assembly and k-planes off had an electrolosys problem. You can see it in the pictures. I was planning to buy an XR for it anyway.
http://s718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/duunoit/28_Pantera/
I would probably rather sell it without the motor just so I know that I'm not selling it with a problem... unless the "new" exhaust fixes the problem.
Chris
PS - Sean is also right...