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Updated:
5/10/2009 (15 years ago)
Originally Posted: 5/21/2007
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Previous Owner: Scott Mullin
Location: Eden Prairie, MN
Model: 1967 Skylark
Length: 16
Engine: Buick 225 cu. in. V6
HP: 155
Hours:
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Location: Eden Prairie, MN
Model: 1967 Skylark
Length: 16
Engine: Buick 225 cu. in. V6
HP: 155
Hours:
Modify this Diaries Listing
Sale fell through from last fall!!
I am the second owner of this beautiful boat. I have owned her now for about 18 years or so. She is all original except for the upholstery, which was redone shortly before I bought it...and still looks like new.
In 18 years I have put approximately 25 hours on the hour meter. YES...I am serious. None of my kids have the fever to ski like I did growing up...so we usually just do some tubing from time to time...or my wife and I just cruise around the lake slow and easy. We only get up to the cabin where it lives, 3-4 times a summer. The boat has been covered and stored indoors since new...there are certainly a few signs of 42 years of life...but overall this is still a beautiful boat! I did have a "enclosed" alternator installed as well as a bilge pump a few years ago. I had the original gas tank "renewed" about 12 years ago by a company in Minneapolis. About 10 years ago I also had a valve job done so I could comfortably run unleaded gas with no additives! It has never been left in the water more than a night or two at a time...usually because I hadn’t put the lift in yet. She always starts on the first try...and runs as strong as ever.
She attracts lots of attention on the water...and even more when I occasionally trailer her from Brainerd to Minneapolis. Every time I stop somewhere...people will come up and start asking all sorts of questions about the boat. Stops at the gas station usually take a good 1/2 hour :)
I love to talk...I answer all questions!
I am the second owner of this beautiful boat. I have owned her now for about 18 years or so. She is all original except for the upholstery, which was redone shortly before I bought it...and still looks like new.
In 18 years I have put approximately 25 hours on the hour meter. YES...I am serious. None of my kids have the fever to ski like I did growing up...so we usually just do some tubing from time to time...or my wife and I just cruise around the lake slow and easy. We only get up to the cabin where it lives, 3-4 times a summer. The boat has been covered and stored indoors since new...there are certainly a few signs of 42 years of life...but overall this is still a beautiful boat! I did have a "enclosed" alternator installed as well as a bilge pump a few years ago. I had the original gas tank "renewed" about 12 years ago by a company in Minneapolis. About 10 years ago I also had a valve job done so I could comfortably run unleaded gas with no additives! It has never been left in the water more than a night or two at a time...usually because I hadn’t put the lift in yet. She always starts on the first try...and runs as strong as ever.
She attracts lots of attention on the water...and even more when I occasionally trailer her from Brainerd to Minneapolis. Every time I stop somewhere...people will come up and start asking all sorts of questions about the boat. Stops at the gas station usually take a good 1/2 hour :)
I love to talk...I answer all questions!
