Submitted by user Mihali

Eb-tide 1977 bought striped, obtained $99.00 boat and trailer a good place to start eh Any body have extension for 1961 Johnson 40 Horse RDS 23 Look wrong runs about 8 miles and hour.

Submitted by user 84CJ7

I believe this to be a 1958 since '57 had long roof rails and '59 had no fins. If anyone knows different send me a message. No hull number anymore that I can find, title has state issued number I believe. EDIT: The above issue has been settled and it was obvious all along, 57 had no portholes 59 had no fins. Definetely a 58 which means my title is a foot and a year short. This is an all aluminum hull, even the floor is diamond plate aluminum now. Bought the hull and trailer minus motor and control box for $1300 including tax and registration. Haven't had a chance to do anything yet (its winter here) but it'll need a motor obviously, and a new water system and a toilet, repainting and other cosmetics, and a few other things. Never seen another outboard aluminum cruiser of any size in all my life. I know of only about 3 of these off the net, wonder how many are left. Or how many were made for that matter. Since that new 90 HP didn't come with it I just bought an 84 Johnson 90hp V4 with all the stuff for it and itll be on the boat soon and then its to the water. Fuel system was trashed btw, I managed to save the tanks by flushing them out and replacing the pickup tubes. Had to cut and grind off the old tank senders though because the fuel ate the floats and the rest corroded bad, and since I didnt need em I kept the top metal circles and gaskets to plug the holes. You can see in one pic hoe stained the tanks got from the old whatever you want to call it that was in them, and how much had evaporated off since the boat was left to sit. Those stains are still there even with the new gas. All the rest is new and working good now though. Had the boat on the water several times now, somehow a 90 hp motor makes a 23 foot boat go 35 mph, haven't figured that one out yet. I think i can get a bit more with the right prop and a tune up though. It handles really well though, turns and manuevers better than a modern boat. Its interesting because it doesn't really get on plane like a normal boat, the whole boat just hops out of the water and skims along on top of it on its really flat bottom. When you turn it just digs in like turning a surf board which makes it able to do some really odd manuevers. Electrical system is repaired, the twit previous owner didn't seem to realize you can't use chassis grounds on a boat, once i go that mess sorted out it was all still in good shape and all the original 50 year old lights still work. Added some gauges and a 24 volt 70 lb thrust transom mount trolling motor as a backup motor and to get into really shallow areas since this thing only uses about 4 inches of water with its light weight and really flat bottom so i can get up to almost any beach. More pics later.

Submitted by user Roostmaster433g

Basically, I have boat-jacked this boat from my brother's backyard. I couldn't stand to see her rot away any longer, so I have brought her home for a little TLC. She has provided us all with alot of pleasure since about 1980 when my brother bought her. And I figured it was time to repay her the favor by giving her back her youth so to speak. New floor, stringer, transom, upholstery, etc.. all rotten pretty much. Anyways this will be her story (and mine) as it goes along, keeping in mind that I have never done any boat repairs in my life, so it should be fun and interesting!

Submitted by user rowdy235

I got an 1969 homemade boat that I wish to make my own. I won't add much to it besides a motor. I will keep ya'll posted

Submitted by user Dave JZ

In the long thought of building a boat, I could not decide what exactly I wanted. I saw these plans and bought the lumber for the frames. A day later I started cutting so I could not turn back. The Plans are from www.Svensons.com/boat I am following the Sea Babe plans.

Submitted by user 74baja

This is my Baja. I a replaceing the transom and Stringer.