'71 Mustang Followed Me Home

john b wrote: I don't see any evidence of a stern light, is there one on there?

John,
It's the era of the white transom light and the all around white on the windshield.

Yes, It sure is cleaning up great.

it is cleaning up nicely, can't wait for a video of it running. It looks very clean with those glass vents and no clearance bar. I don't see any evidence of a stern light, is there one on there?

Nature of the beast. I don't think I even realized it was there, let alone had the coordination and agility to clear the clearance bar...

It was a hot pick up, and drop off a sunset multi-man barefoot run after a long day of drinking. I remember clipping that rope guard climbing into the boat and thinking, man that thing is majorly in the way. John had beer on board and I chugged one on the way to meeting up with the crew. Then I threw up in my mouth on the next deep water.
My toe was burning and later I saw most of the skin was gone from the top knuckle. So, sorry for any blood stains in or around the back of the back of the boat.

Gary S wrote: Riley wrote: JDD must have had a swim platform on his boat. Why else would you be climbing over it? Or a non-original ladder Bruce I'm thinking of taking mine off,if my gelcoat mix is still good

Fixed it for you, Gary. ;)

Olive oyle ('70) and my cousins '68 both have original ladders and no clearance bar... Apparently for good reason (besides physically interfering in their mounting locations).

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JDD33 wrote: My '70 Mustang, Reid's Skier, Uncle Todd's '63 Classic,and the Barracuda. [/IMG]

It's flattened at the ends and screwed down directly, just like the half oval. Probably a little trickier to make at home because of that, which is why I suggested sticking with the half oval anyways... Though Hw may argue that the bar stock is safer!

I'll try to remember to snap a good pic over the holiday break. This one is a little better:

TRBenj wrote: Not sure what you mean by "standard rail and fittings", Pete... That's not what I was referring to.

No picture here, Pete? Shows up fine on my end, but I posted it! We are talking about different clearance bar styles.

John, no changes to the clearance bars for '69. The moving of the scoops from the outer corners to the middle sure made that clearance bar more useful though... Those corner scoops were rope catchers!

Were the vents moved to the center in about 69 to allow for a smaller clearance bar? It would be a bad day if someone tried to use my flimsy style for boarding, or even a hand hold at the dock.

TRBenj wrote: Not sure what you mean by "standard rail and fittings", Pete... That's not what I was referring to.

I was referring to the system CC used just like John posted. Same as Dave mentioned as well as what's on my Tique.

BTW, the "standard rail" is tubing.

john b wrote: This was on the 69SS. Standard deck fittings. Very effective, but I don't like it.

Yeah that's a stock clearance bar from about 74-77' Had one on my Tique and nautique from that time period. Yes, they were big, ugly and hard to jump over...

That flimsy hollow back half oval thing shaved my toe on JDD's mustang.

Not sure what you mean by "standard rail and fittings", Pete... That's not what I was referring to.

Can't say I've ever seen a boat with a solid back half round clearance bar. Many '71+ boats have tubular clearance bars, that's what I have on my Skier. I'd probably stick with what John posted though.

I hope this is a help.This is from my 70 Mustang. The 69SS had a huge concoction made from deck rail and fittings that are available today, but it was fugly imo.Maybe someone will recognize the stock this is made from. The bends on the bottom are at about an 85* angle probably to give it a little more resistance to bending at the deck.