This was one of my first boats.it was a fun pool boat.To slow for the lake but to fast for the pool.I switched out the stock 540 for a trinity gold series car motor.
Anyone else have a picture of there first boat.....
This was one of my first boats.it was a fun pool boat.To slow for the lake but to fast for the pool.I switched out the stock 540 for a trinity gold series car motor.
Anyone else have a picture of there first boat.....
My first boat was a 2X4 with a pointed bow cut with a handsaw and placed in a mud puddle in the alley back of my parent's garage. Probably around 1949 or1950.
My first boat was a cabin cruiser with a .049 golden bee mounted with a pusher prop. Tossed it in sail boat lake in Central Park, NYC and ran from the cops who were going to arrest me. Guess Muff and Uncle Biff didn't appreciate me swamping half the boats in the lake. Year was 1964. Hammer :lol: :lol:
my first boat(small scale) was a cox round nose hydro with a .049 pusher prop setup. my dad would take me out in biscayne bay/miami in our "big" boat, & we would turn it loose in free flight then go chase it . that was about '58 to '60. we had 19' wood owens day cruiser with 2 28 hp johnson ob's. metal clamshell cowl, kinda bronze or rootbeer colored. my first full scale boat was a 12'3" starcraft runabout with a '59 johnson 35hp ob on it. circa 1965. like JD, prolly my FIRST boat was also a whittled piece of wood, turned loose in the trout stream at my grandmother's place in pa. around '55. then i graduated to towing toys in puddles behind my bike. the neighborhood i lived in had long flat streets that would create puddles 100' long, 3 to 6" deep-PERFECT for that & skimboarding B) .
Mine was a 3 point Kneeler sporting a Mark 20H. When I got out of it you could still here that engine for hours later. I think that is why my ears ring constantly. LOL I traded all 3 of my 20H's off one day....now they are worth a Butt Load of money. What was I thinking?
I still have some cool O/B engines in my collection.
If anyone has a 1940 K1 Mercury Streamlinner O/B they want to sell, I need one to get the gas tank off of.
Hope you guys don't mind a non-tunnel added to the thread. In my case, it was a Dumas Pay'N Pak with the Dumas hardware powered by an HB .20. Wrecked the boat by running it into a pile of rocks after the receiver batteries died. The boat was painted with Formula U white with the stripes hand painted using Formula U Firey Orange and Jet Black. Unfortunately, the boat was so heavy the little HB and plastic JG prop couldn't push it fast enough to really get it up on plane. I'm hoping the new ones will be much improved performance wise
This was one of my first boats.it was a fun pool boat.To slow for the lake but to fast for the pool.I switched out the stock 540 for a trinity gold series car motor.
Anyone else have a picture of there first boat.....
Ive got to get in here, The first boat was a dumas thriftway 049 on tether then a Skadadal with a veco 19 single channel world engines radio. My father and I then joined the Seattle model yacht club and we met a man named Ed Fisher. The fun began.
