RACESDAD
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The Official " 1st Boat Thread " and more......
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When I was a kid in Corpus, I had this 16' Aluma Weld w/ a 20hp Chrysler. This was around 1980, if memory serves. A couple years later my dad bought me a 40hp Evinrude Work Twin. Ran that thing at WOT for years....one day I grabbed the pull rope and it went CLUNK and locked up. Crank broke in 3 pieces. My dad sold it when I went off to college. It was one hell of a boat. I spent thousands of hrs running all over the Laguna Madre in that thing.
That's the bow on the 20' Mako my dad started guiding out of.
That's the bow on the 20' Mako my dad started guiding out of.
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79 Sea Ray 20 ft, 350/Alpha... 52 on gps!
got the boat for free, did not run, thats because the drive was locked up, install used drive, and away I went!
got the boat for free, did not run, thats because the drive was locked up, install used drive, and away I went!
That would be a 1st-generation canopy boat.
Airpacker
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in 74, I built an 8 foot plywood mini max ( sea flea) and my grandad gave me a almost new Elgin ( sears) 12hp twin. What a ride 
First "real" performance boat was a 79 sidewinder 16 lo pro I bought with a seized 115 tower of power. I replaced the motor with a shiny new merc 175 blck max v6. Just slightly over powered
Once I learned to drive it, no one wanted to get in the thing because at 72mph, it would literally lift out of the water and walk sideways several feet on the prop. Scary little sucker but I miss it.
First "real" performance boat was a 79 sidewinder 16 lo pro I bought with a seized 115 tower of power. I replaced the motor with a shiny new merc 175 blck max v6. Just slightly over powered
Once I learned to drive it, no one wanted to get in the thing because at 72mph, it would literally lift out of the water and walk sideways several feet on the prop. Scary little sucker but I miss it.
That's what she said!!!:sifone::sifone:
Wrinkleface
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Dreams, Dreams!!!!:biggrinjester:
My first boat was a '93 Rinker 206 with a 4.3LX/Alpha. Great little boat and would go a long ways on a tank of gas (40 gallon if memory serves). My family's first boat was a 1973 Glastron 16 1/2' open bow tri-hull with a 140 HP Merc (motor might have been a couple years older than the boat). No good place to sit in that boat - in the front your kidneys would bleed and in the rear jump seats you thought at any moment that screaming Merc would ventilate itself and put a rod through your ear. No built-in gas tank either. We carried 3, 6 gallon portable metal tanks that fit back by the battery under a vinyl curtain. I was the designated "bulb boy". Every time we ran out a tank I had to switch to a new one and prime the line by squeezing that bulb that always seemed to be leaking fuel. Good times, good times....
Speaking of Mark Twains, which the Illinois river was full of back in the 70's, does anyone remember Sea Sprite? There were a bunch of them running around as well.
Speaking of Mark Twains, which the Illinois river was full of back in the 70's, does anyone remember Sea Sprite? There were a bunch of them running around as well.
Offshoreracr
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14' jonboat with an Evinrude 9.9
smokeybandit
New member
1983 Formula. I think it was 1983, but I'm getting too old to remember back that far.
Clustergear
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First Boat
15 ft 1957 Cutter 60 HP Johnrude. We called it the Batboat because it had wings on the back like a 57 Chevy
15 ft 1957 Cutter 60 HP Johnrude. We called it the Batboat because it had wings on the back like a 57 Chevy
One of the best riding boats I've ever been in, neighbors had a 19'.
My first new boat was a '94 175 Larson bowrider 4-banger. Not a bad boat overall, but I could never accept how much better the older Slickcrafts rode.
getchasum111
Charter Member
18 foot donzi with a 289 and omc drive....moored at LOTO at the 10 mile marker in sunrise beach missouri from 1971 to 1984.....i sure do miss that place....and the boat....
DoTheMath
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1987 Sea Ray Pachanga in red with a 350 mag. and matching Eagle tandem trailer. I was still in high school, my Dad bought it for me (brand new) - loved that boat!! Gave it back to the dealer a couple years later to broker it so I could move up, and it got stolen right from their lot! (Insurance settled, and we went next door and bought a new Formula 242LS, so I guess it wasn't all bad!?)
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