27ft Ocean Master - Project Boat

all I would care about is the deck and the transom. Soft spots in the deck or any flex in the transom can turn a refresh into a rebuild quickly. Get that checked out thoroughly before you hand over the cash

Whatever the budget to redo the boat is in your mind double or triple it and you will be close to reality. There is a good chance there is rot that has not been detected yet and the tanks probably need to be redone as well. The good thing is these boats were built with 100% fiberglass stringers so it is a hull worth taking on as a project. Rebuilding a boat is a labor of love and in the end (at least in my case) I could have just bought a newer boat up front for the same money I had in it. Here's a good link to a rebuild of a 88 OM 27. It will give you some insight on what to expect.

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Resin and gel coat are going to have a BIG price increase at some point in April.

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As someone who has rebuilt several boats from hull up:

1) make sure hull/transom/stringers are solid. ESPECIALLY if wood in any of those areas. If rotten wood, I’d honestly walk away from the boat. That opens you up to ALOT of work

2) Fuel tanks. Very small chance tanks are in good shape if they are original (poly or aluminum). I would go in assuming you need to replace them and all fuel lines. Not super familiar with ocean master, but that will likely entail glasswork as well since you typically have to cut deck out to pull tanks.

3) Fiberglass work is NOT cheap. You would think just getting small chips and cracks fixed isnt expensive, but it adds up quick (unless you can do it yourself)

4) You will save a ton of money of you are able to do all the wiring yourself. This really applies to any of the work needed.

5) McMaster Carr website is great for
for 316Ss fasteners, fittings, etc.

Other than that good luck, and definitely post PICTs as you do it. I love following along on rebuild threads.

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4) You will save a ton of money of you are able to do all the wiring yourself. This really applies to any of the work needed.

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Fantastic hull and some of them are great fish raisers. There are some of them at Diego Garcia that have been fished HARD and they are as solid as the day they rolled off the floor in Stuart. I had a friend who converted a 30 foot Ocean Master walk around to a center console and added a bracket and twin 150s (woefully underpowered but for a reason) and that hull was a fishing machine. It was, I think, at one time, one of the boats that were used as charter boats in Diego Garcia...it was at GTMO and when he started it the hull looked like it should have been placed in a landfill. Getting materials to GTMO is almost impossible without coast guard or navy contacts and a smugglers mentality. It looked like an impossible project from that perspective. When he started opening the hull up it was almost like new....this thing had been sitting on the ground for several years, in direct sunlight and exposed to the weather on a Caribbean island. Looked exactly like you'd expect a derelict hull to look on the outside...on the inside it looked like it hadn't left Stuart more than a week or so. When he as finished it was as good an offshore boat as one could want. It was underpowered by a BUNCH but it was never going to make more than a 12 mile run offshore and the 150s were what was available. As far as I know that boat is still deep dropping and loading a couple of hundred pounds of grouper and queen and silky snapper every weekend. It was also a damned sexy boat LOL...gorgeous lines.

From what I remember they were heavy tanks that rode well although a bit wet. One of the coco marina chatter captains ran one in the 90’s

I believe the late 80's Ocean Master hulls are solid fiberglass with no wood core in the hull itself. The stringers are fully glassed-in as well.

Get a survey, or at minimum a Moisture Meter. A Tramex Skipper meter will run you about $700 - but totally worth it.

New fuel tank is a given.

What happened to our garage build that we were tracking here.


Did dude finish it up?

Great hull and boat! Go for it. Fished a 27 and 31 several times.

Some of the older models pumped extra fiberglass into the molds making them really heavy.

I’d also vote on twins.