Just Picked Up a Twin-Engine Fish Nautique

love the Fish

Enjoying the thread, would love to have a twin engine 23' hull some day. I'll be very interested in your performance results with the old V6's, whether they get it on plane into the high 20's with some decent efficiency or not.

VERY cool boat!!!

That looks great! Love the blue!

Jeff,

WOW !!!!!!!! That Blue looks great !!!!!!!

Out of the box thinking on this one. Should be great.

Donald

@woodyelc I forgot to check on this. I will try to check tomorrow.

Here's an update on what's happening with this boat right now.

The boat is at North Lake Fiberglass right now, having the floor built and installed, and the exterior gelcoat refinished.

A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a donor Fish Nautique from Cape Cod. The donor (pictured in the post two up from this one) is a 1986, so it has the seating/storage compartments molded into the front floor section. That's a major upgrade over the earlier Fish Nautiques, which had simple, flat front floors with no seating or storage at all.

The donor boat also has a top deck cap that is in better shape than the one on the twin-engine, so we may end up switching that over as well.

The front floor section (from the engine opening forward) was removed from the donor boat today, and it is ready to install into the twin-engine.



The rear floor section will be custom-built and completely removable. That way we can get to the gas tank, shafts, rudders, exhaust, etc. when necessary.

Things are progressing well! Can't wait to get it finished up!

Ok, the twin-engine Fish Nautique is going to North Lake Fiberglass on Monday to start the fiberglass and gelcoat work!

I just finalized a deal to pick up another Fish Nautique hull, and we're going to take the front floor section from that boat (from the front of the center console to the front of the boat) and install it in the twin-engine. I'm doing this because the bare hull I just bought has the front bench seats and the proper hatches, and that will make the twin-engine way more passenger-friendly. It will also give it more of a factory look (although the front benches didn't start until '86 or '87 and mine is an '81). I may also pull the top deck off of the bare hull boat and install that on the twin-engine, since the deck on the twin-engine is pretty messed up.

Won't be long now until I can start posting some progress pictures!

Here's the bare hull FN I just bought.

+1 for 50/50 ATF and acetone. Great stuff. Similar product is "Ed's Red". I use this for gun cleaning and other similar uses:

Ed's Red Bore Cleaner

1 part ATF
1 part Kerosene - deodorized, K1
1 part Aliphatic Mineral Spirits or may substitute "Stoddard Solvent"
1 part Acetone

(Optional up to 1 lb. of Lanolin, Anhydrous, USP per gallon,)

Intersting. I had always heard PB Blaster was the best thing to use. Thanks for posting!

If it doesn't free up today or tomorrow, I will move to something stronger from the list!

That's great news! I saw your other Fish Nautique is up on ebay...

Nice start to a great boat

Pretty cool boat. As a former Supra owner, I paid a little bit of attention, but never saw or heard of the Allegro.

GottaSki wrote: I think we're all living vicariously through Jeff... effit, twin LM4's!

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/boa/d/twin-jet-boat-for-sale-ft/6216050019.html

If that tank system is new, it seems like you might be able to put a divider in the center of the tank, effectively making it two tanks.    Then plumb a fuel pickup, Fuel level indicator and a fill and a vent on each side, voila, separate tanks, and no real re-design of the existing space.   super cool project! .   

Yes

Interesting. I'll look into that!