Decent boats with shallow draft. As Harry suggested have a good surveyor go
over them. The engines bear a very close look. I like them.

Butch
"Garth Almgren" wrote in message
...
Around 10/2/2004 7:44 AM, Harry Krause wrote:

LD wrote:

Anyone familiar with this brand?

Yeah. Great canoes, great round bilge, canvas covered cedar strip
outboard boats in the late 1940s and 1950s, really beautiful little
boats.

... at least until they're backed into:

http://galmgren.home.comcast.net/chr...crunched10.jpg
http://galmgren.home.comcast.net/chr...crunched11.jpg
http://galmgren.home.comcast.net/chr...crunched12.jpg


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~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Thanks for the input guys; I've looked at this 26' hurricane damaged boat,
(about a football sized hole back from the bow about 5' and just below the
waterline, which I'm confident I can fix). I'd like to get a boat on a low
budget that's capable of taking me 20-30 miles out to go after the big ones
and spend the night if I had or wanted to (in calm weather). The roominess,
stability (w/10 1/2' beam), dual station, twin engines all appeals to me.
It's a major fixer upper but, hey, it's just time and money. It looks like
I could get it into the water for fishing for about $5000. My areas of
concern are the tunnel drive (how fast??) w/the 318's and the seemly lack of
strength at the roof area to the deck with all the glass? Anyway, it's just
a thought about yet another project. Told the wife it would keep me off the
street!

"Butch Davis" wrote in message
nk.net...
Decent boats with shallow draft. As Harry suggested have a good surveyor
go
over them. The engines bear a very close look. I like them.

Butch
"Garth Almgren" wrote in message
...
Around 10/2/2004 7:44 AM, Harry Krause wrote:

LD wrote:

Anyone familiar with this brand?

Yeah. Great canoes, great round bilge, canvas covered cedar strip
outboard boats in the late 1940s and 1950s, really beautiful little
boats.

... at least until they're backed into:

http://galmgren.home.comcast.net/chr...crunched10.jpg
http://galmgren.home.comcast.net/chr...crunched11.jpg
http://galmgren.home.comcast.net/chr...crunched12.jpg


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 08:00:28 -0400, "LD" wrote:

Thanks for the input guys; I've looked at this 26' hurricane damaged boat,
(about a football sized hole back from the bow about 5' and just below the
waterline, which I'm confident I can fix). I'd like to get a boat on a low
budget that's capable of taking me 20-30 miles out to go after the big ones
and spend the night if I had or wanted to (in calm weather). The roominess,
stability (w/10 1/2' beam), dual station, twin engines all appeals to me.
It's a major fixer upper but, hey, it's just time and money. It looks like
I could get it into the water for fishing for about $5000. My areas of
concern are the tunnel drive (how fast??) w/the 318's and the seemly lack of
strength at the roof area to the deck with all the glass? Anyway, it's just
a thought about yet another project. Told the wife it would keep me off the
street!

Ah - well, that puts a whole different light on the subject.

Now you really need to have it surveyed. I'd be willing to bet that
there is more damage there than you can see. If you are picking up
this boat that cheap, another $500 or so won't hurt you and it will
save you a ton of restoration time.

Later,

Tom
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653

Is there something specific about the 318's to look for? I really don't
know anything about a 4 stroke, inboard drive but I've rebuilt a few 289's
and 350's. Other than a compression and oil pressure check and obvious
cracks in the exhaust/cooling system, what else? I can see how, if it's not
an outboard, the inboard drive should be much simpler and less prone to
failure than an out-drive.

"Butch Davis" wrote in message
nk.net...
Decent boats with shallow draft. As Harry suggested have a good surveyor
go
over them. The engines bear a very close look. I like them.

Butch
"Garth Almgren" wrote in message
...
Around 10/2/2004 7:44 AM, Harry Krause wrote:

LD wrote:

Anyone familiar with this brand?

Yeah. Great canoes, great round bilge, canvas covered cedar strip
outboard boats in the late 1940s and 1950s, really beautiful little
boats.

... at least until they're backed into:

http://galmgren.home.comcast.net/chr...crunched10.jpg
http://galmgren.home.comcast.net/chr...crunched11.jpg
http://galmgren.home.comcast.net/chr...crunched12.jpg


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows