Your first Boat

Reid ya goon, figured you would take the bait as you are the master at bait!

I definitely need a recording of some monster loud exhaust for my IPod so we can scream that out the speakers! Perhaps when Benji pulls his out he could stick a microphone in one of those rear exhaust holes he has got.

ill play.

First boat purchased Dec 6, 2006.
86 Ski Nautique 2001 purchased for $5600 and got the best deal of my life. PCM 454ci, transformed from a typical ski nautique into a modern wakeboarding machine equipped with a 1500lb ballast system, monster tower, acme 540, ipod hook up, pioneer stereo, polk speakers, polk subwoofer, dual battery, and lastly a heated drivers seat...still need to install that.

quinner wrote: Thanks JBear! Here is a crazy story while on Glen Lake in Michigan my buddy ran the boat up on a rock/sand bar while the guy behind me rear ends me. Somebody was looking out for me that day!

Thanks JBear! Here is a crazy story about the 77', while on Glen Lake in Michigan my buddy ran the boat up on a rock/sand bar while I was skiing, luckily late on Sunday, bent the crap out of the prop and shaft, on the way home we are on I-80 and hit a slow down, the guy behind me rear ends the boat, knocked the rudder off, bent up the ladder a bit and maybe bent the bent prop and shaft, well his insurance paid to fix all that anyway as well as a new teak deck cause they couldn't get replacement parts for the ladder. Somebody was looking out for me that day!

Here is the first one that I owned, 77' Ski Nautique with an original bat trailer. Bought it around 1988, boat of course was 11 I would have been 24. Purchased from the original owner in Dekalb, IL for $5,500.00, boat had around 250hrs on it, IIRC the owner told me I paid more or very close to what it cost him new and wouldn't you know when I sold it was for more than I had paid by about $1k. Over the next six or seven years replaced the interior and repainted the lettering. This was definitely the strongest sounding of all my CC's despite the fact it had a Ford in it. 4 more Correct Crafts have since followed.

BKH, I was thinking the same thing when I seen the pic, crazy..

Like to see this thread coming to life again (even with the threadjacks). Riley, in the first photo, how does that boat end up so far onto the beach? BKH

Cheap shot, That is called hitting below the belt.....

Woodcock season opens Dec.17 thru Jan.31...

Boat doc, you gonna do any sparrow hunting this year?

I found these pics of two boats me and a buddy owned about 1973. The 1st is a 15' outboard that I think was a Reynolds. It was molded plywood. It has a 1954 Johnson 25 hp. This was a fun boat.

The next is a real race boat, a C hydro. It was a Marchede hydro with a Mark 30 racing engine. This boat went close to 70 mph. It was a really nice set up, but we were terribly underfunded and sold everything after blowwing 2 powerheads in the first summer. This boat would be worth some bucks now.

JBear you have had some real gems.Thanks for sharing.

gave the boat and vette up for a new house and a wife. The jury is still out on how I did on the trade. Just kidding, happily married, always wanted a BFN so I went and found one. I wasn't really using the sport so much anyway. Was working alot of over time at that point an couldn't see letting a $60K boat sit in the garage. So I sold it and the vette paid for the wedding in cash, big downpayment on the house and had money to buy the BFN 3 months later. Everyone wins.

Now I have to wait to find another python motor. I know there is one in the for sale section. But it's not the right time to buy one again. Need a bigger garage first.

My 2001 Sport with the python motor.

My first, 1936 Seabird

My second, 1955 Chris Craft Sportsman awsome wake, but only good for light weights. Still have it.

My third, 1968 Glstron GT 160
traded in for 89 ski nautique. Pictures and diary to come once the snow melts

Lot of new folks joining lateley, and still some long time lurkers who haven't posted pics of their first boats. Would be great to see some more. I'd like to see the wooden Chris Craft that David F has written about. There's a number of you like me over 40, I'm sure you've got some great black and whites out there of the boat you grew up with. BKH