All dressed up and no where to fish

My neighbor has a 24 trophy cudddy with twin 225 merc son it. His garage is 1000' plus from my house. One day I hear his Outboards just roaring at what sounds like full throttle. I go over and ask whats up. He says the boat will not get up on a plane so something must be wrong with the motors. They sound fine to me. He has no water hooked up to them and runs them for 20 to 30 minutes and then I hear him drive off. A few dayts later I ask him if he ever found the problem. He said the bilge was full of water because he left it outside all winter. He never looked in the bilge or turned on the pump. He Also forgot to put the plug in on lake Kachess and by the time he figured it out water was coming onto the deck. He made it to the lauch and had to piss some people off by driving his trailer like a madman between lauching boats to get it on before it sunk. You may see him out at posseion this summer. He wanted a hard top on the boat but it cost 5k. So he took some galvanized plumbing pipe and screwed it too the deck making a frame. then screwed on a sheet of 4x8' Corian countertop material to the top. it weighs at least 500lbs and should make the boat more than a bit tippy.