ultraclyde wrote: typos on the boat ads are even more common than the car ads somehow, but the "bowel ridder" takes the cake. I gave up on sexy expensive boats and bought a cheap retro boat instead:
Yaaay... you bought it! Good job.
ultraclyde wrote: typos on the boat ads are even more common than the car ads somehow, but the "bowel ridder" takes the cake. I gave up on sexy expensive boats and bought a cheap retro boat instead:
Yaaay... you bought it! Good job.
JohnRW1621 wrote: To tie Crutis' two finds together... Do you know why they don't put porthole windows the cuddly (cuddy) cabins of Bayliners? No need, the light shines right through the fiberglass.
Its a special weight-saving feature.
In reply to curtis73:
after many minor fixes I'm hoping to get her on the water and see if it actually does boat things this weekend.
JohnRW1621 wrote: To tie Crutis' two finds together... Do you know why they don't put porthole windows the cuddly (cuddy) cabins of Bayliners? No need, the light shines right through the fiberglass.
it's funny.. on some sailboats, they intentionally did not gelcoat the outsides of the cabin and tops of the hatches. The idea being that the sunlight would go right through to illuminate the interior.. it worked! It also allowed the sun and water to deteriorate the ungelcoated glassgfibre
Bumping this thread because I’ve somehow uncovered 15 year old data in my brain - Curtis, have you ever heard of the Tracker Tundra or Avalanche?
They basically figured out a way to get fiberglass shapes with aluminum. There were problems early in the run, it was still a tracker, but may be something you want to look out for if you’re going to gut the interior anyways.
Tundra was the multi species boat, avalanche the bass boat.
I have looked at them. I think it might be another 10 years before they're in my price range, but I'll give them another look.
They're a hydroformed aluminum hull and all welded. Nice boats indeed, and they don't have any structural wood to rot.
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