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Larry
 
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Default need fiberglass dingy

"purple_stars" wrote in
oups.com:

where can i find a used
fiberglass dingy


Look around the docks. Someone who hated it gave me a Watertender 9.4 just
to get rid of it.

http://www.boatsandaccessories.com/p.../item5742.html

It's a nice little plastic boat.....IF you don't own a sailboat..(c;

Someone else gave me a nearly-new 3hp Yamaha outboard from their now-sold
motoryachting days. I used to spend weekends in his bilge fixing stuff.

Downside was I had to buy a LICENSE ($35) and pay personal property taxes
on the damned thing, now. It was free up until the tax bureaucrats found
out about it....dammit.

Notice the 4 drink holders....(c;

My neighbor's kids LOVE IT. On a hot summer day, I drop the hose in it on
the lawn and make a redneck swimmin pool out of it. Just fill it to the
gunwale. Even has cool seats. It's unsinkable because the inside plastic
cockpit has a big sealed airspace between it and the tri-hull. A $12
thrift shop Minnkota electric makes a dandy yacht club tender, instead of
walking 3 miles around the city marina docks to get there....

It planes with the 3hp Yamaha!