Buying a "94 Caliber22" 7.4L. Help please...

[atomnissen]

Hi there
I am about to buy my first Baja.
I am from europe, and since the boats is ALOT more pricy over here, I am looking at one, from "94.
It has a 7.4L mercruiser engine, and it is in werry good condition. I don`t know how many hours the engine has, but both boat and engine looks werry good!
What sould I be looking at, on a 10 years old baja??
I just sold my SeaRay 170cb, and think this Baja is the right way to go!! :)

Any help from you guy`s would be apriciated.

Best regards

Lasse (hoping to be a baja owner real soon)

[bomar76]

We have a 1994 Baja 22 Caliber Twilight Cruiser, with a tweaked 5.7 Alpha. We have 320 or so hours on it. The options on ours include trim tabs, dual batteries, Halon, full camper canvas , and sink. No thru hull.

Our Baja is as new. There are NO stress cracks, delaminations, stringer problems, blisters, nothing. We purchased it off the original owner and we stay in contact. He had zero problems with it also.

It is not the greatest rough water boat, there is no subsitute for length and weight. That said we were out in 5-6 footers on Lake Erie a while back and while rough it handled everything OK.

It's a great size to handle launching, etc by one person, and will sleep 2 in comfort. It has a real cuddy cabin unlike a lot of the other Baja's (Outlaws). The anchor locker is great to have also. I can lve with the small block and Alpha drive - it will never be a race boat but we can dust off quite a few unsuspecting competetors. It's also nice to have a real windshield as opposed to the fiberglass shield.

What I wish it had:

Stand up bolsters
Dash mounted throttle instead of that damn MercControl
Transom shower
Tru Hull (adding that)
GPS speedometer


Any questions, email me:

bomar76@hotmail.com