Boats you have owned

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I have owned a few boats and then I have driven more boats than I have owned
but what boats have you owned?

My first boat
14' hobie cat

2nd boat
16' whaler

3rd boat
21 trophy

current boat
22 angler

I know not many boats. I have had way more motorcycles and vehicles and jet skis but that's my story. I could never remember how many surf boards and wind surfers I have had. I am not including my parents boats or the cg boats that I operated.

I am thinking of another boat now also. Something big to go west but that is me dreaming.

What does your list look like?
 
this has the making of a depressing post, from a monetary standpoint, that is.
1. 25' maxum cruiser
2. 31' silverton 312 sedan bridge
3. 15' aluminum smokercraft canoe
4. nissan 12' dingy
5. 16' yamaha exciter twin engine 220 jetboat
6. 12' 380 deluxe zodiac rib 40hp
7. 23' 2352 trophy 350 i/o
8. 41' 356 carver aft cabin twin 454's 1.9 gallons per mile
9. 22' c-dory twin 40hp misty seas

don't want to add up the losses of this list!
pat
 
I grew up on my grandfathers 16 alum o.b. fishing boat in the summer. Then in 76? my folks bought a 27chris craft with a single 350. I loved that boat.

I have owned
12ft delhi w/25 hp johnson(one of my favorite boats)
22 california tri hull
16 starcraft
19 starcraft
16 drift boat
14 grunman canoe
18 drift boat
22 C-dory

I have never owned a large boat but have piloted a few. I have never been on a sail boat.
 
from this wannabe, hopefully soon to end

16 Reinell, a true POS, everything worked on it for 4-5 days, too bad not consecutive. Even had to get towed once by the trash boat at Lake Oroville.

19 Cobalt, ended us using for fishing, dealer got pissed that I cleaned salmon on back deck. I reminded them who owned the boat

14 Gregor for local fishing

21 Seaswirl Striper WA, nice boat for fishing, heavy gas hog, but thrived up at Tahoe and SF Bay

Hopefully before end of 2010, CD 19
 
Gosh, let me think:

14 Ft Sears Aluminum boat with Seagull engine
18 Ft Thunderbird tri hull w/85 Evinrude
15 ft Coronado 15 sailboat
16 foot runnabout, cant remember brand name "Das Boot"
18 Ft Grady White with big v8 inboard with OMC sterndrive. A NIGHTMARE to maintain. Rubber boot split while offshore and almost sunk the boat.
14 ft Hobie
Catalina 22 sailboat
Precision 23 sailboat
C-Dory 22 cruiser with 115 Suzi

Some owned at the same time. I love sailboats, it just takes too damn long to get anywhere. Will return to sailing when I retire and have the time for passage making.
 
This is a test, right? ...hmmm, let me think

16' Crosby w/33hp Scott-Atwater outboard (Varoom!)
13' Boston Whaler w/Merc40 (funnest ever boat, but I'm now 1" shorter)
19' Super V bowrider w/Merc 150 (cheap, light, Fast...)
(twenty-year blank spot, but I got paid to drive Lots of NPS boats)
24' SeaRay SedanBridge IO (a real money sump)
19' Grady White bowrider w/Yamaha200 (a 52mph sleeper)
17' Boston Whaler w/Honda90 (perfect Keys boat, easy to maintain)
22' C-Dory Cruiser w/Suzi90 (Perfect cruiser that I sold on a dumb whim)
23' Cape Cruiser w/Honda150 (my current Love...standby for full report)

My brain's tired.... No more boats! No more boats!

Interesting,
Casey
 
Never on a boat until I was 41. Now have tried several types and now retired with a C-Dory. Fits the settled down lifestyle very well.


1. 24' Bayliner Classic cruiser

2. 28' Bayliner Classic cruiser

3. 18' Diamondback Airboat--502 chevy bigblock swamp boat

4. 16' go-devil hunting boat (looked for aligators on federal land)

5. 21' Ranger tug

6. 22' 1985 C-Dory Classic 90 hp Honda


C-Dory does all the others would do except run the swamps and dry ground with the airboat.
 
So, if possession is 1/2 of ownership, do I get to count the ones that as a 14-15 year old we swam cross the cove about 1/2 mile to at the "Yacht Club" to get to the sail boats in the moon light, unhooked from the mooring balls and enjoyed a nice moon light cruise with the little diesel motors just purring along? If so,...I have "owned" a few sail boats in my youth. :mrgreen: It was the least we could do as we moved the no-wake markers away from our "skiing area" and back towards their "mooring" area. Life as a healthy boy with boats everywhere around. Hummm, maybe this is when my love for diesel engines began. Had not thought about it. Life was good, boats were great!!!

Can't wait to see Dusty's list of Toland design boats...
 
1940's Attack Aircraft Carrier (CVA-34) 1963-65 ..As a tax payer I owned part of it, never operated it.

Then I started ramping down in size.

1940's DE for 2 years on week-ends (see above on ownership)

2001 or so a 1962 14' Featherlite w/ 25HP OB

2002 16' Smokercraft w 50HP OB

2003 22' C-Dory (Thank Pat and Patti for asking us to attend the Seattle Boat Show)

2005 25' C-Dory (again Thanks to P & P) Still have this boat

2008 16" C-Dory Angler (sold to Peter/Jazzmaniac

2009 16' C-Dory Angler which I still have

2010 ??????????
 
Well, excluding Seyvlour dinghys, the list is short:

Catalina 22 sailboat. The all-time entry boat to cruising. Wherever we went (Catalina, Channel Islands, Santa Barbara Island, Mexico: Baja and the mainland) we were the smallest boat there but we were there. Not sure why I bought it, but I found out that boating at this level is cheap and cruising is fun.

Catalina 25 sailboat. A bigger version of the 22, and it went even farther than the 22. Learned a lot more, such as don’t ever have a wing keel on a sailboat. And, use a ¾ truck on a 25’ boat.

Catalina 36 sailboat. Judy said let’s go cruising, and there we were. Boating got a lot more expensive: bottom paint, slip fees, taxes, yacht club. But by the time we were through, that boat had taken us to a lot of great places: Mexico, Tahiti, Alaska, and the Eastern Seaboard. That 36 is one of the great cruisers and the biggest 2 people can handle in strange places, and sails good/well. Almost get a wing keel on that boat, but caught it in time. Which got us stuck a lot on the East Coast, cause the fin keel has a 6’ draft.

C-Dory 25. Back to trailerable boats and ¾ ton trucks, but with a power boat. Been a great boat, and should last as long as the others.

And I've very rarely been on other boats, and NEVER been allowed to helm them.

Boris
 
Not 100% sure of the order, but here goes:

15' Seaspray catamaran (learned to sail)
15' Thunderbird w/65hp Mercury (new)
17' Venture sailboat
21' Reinell Cabin Cruiser w/160hp Merc in/out
22' Catalina (new)
16' Thunderbird w/65hp
19' Crestliner w/120hp Chevy in/out
18' Sea Fair Sedan w/160 Merc in/out
18' Sea Fair Sedan, 1979 w/140 Merc in/out (new)
20' Starcraft Islander, 1986 w/90hp Yamaha
26' MacGregor, 1988 sail (new)
31' Corsair trimaran, 1996 (new)
25 C-Dory, 2003 (new)
 
Before my two C-Dories, when I lived in Utah, I owned a 22' Hewescraft open aluminum boat. Bought it from Tom & Jerry's when they were on I-5 in Burlington where the Kia dealership is now (Jerry Smith?) It was a real NW fishing boat, very unusual in UT. Had 130 and 9.9 Hondas. Brought it up to Anacortes for fishing several times before we moved here.

Now I have:

2006 Tom Cat, purchased in Nov of 06
2003 22, purchased last year from Brent's sister in UT

Warren
 
17 foot Mitchicraft Canoe
15' Coleman Scanoe (Still have it) 2.5 Johnson
16' Sea Nymph 25 Evinrude
14' Monarch River Boat 25 Evinrude
12' Sears Gamefisher
14' Smoker Craft river boat 35 Johnson
Zodiac Mark II GR 35 Johnson
14' Jetcraft (Still have it) 25 Honda
CD-22 (For Sale) 90 Honda 9.9 Johnson
14' sea kayak (Still have it)
28' JetCraft Kingfisher (Still have it) 2xHonda 150
CD-25 (on the way to AK) 150 Yamaha 20 Honda

After counting I still have half the boats I have ever bought although I guess I will have to part with the CD-22 soon.
 
at about 10 years of age I was given a 10 ft Hewescraft.then it grew to a 14 ft a couple of years later.
I still have that 14 ft.use it for crabbing off of Camano Island
then
17 ft Glassply with inboard jet
19 ft Glassply I/O

we now have these two
22 ft C-Dory Classic 1983 (mine)
25 ft C-Dory cruiser 1996 (Lisbeths)

next to possibly be a Rosborough
 
My boat list is shorter than my bike list, but here goes:

1940's DE (for only a month temp duty on the way to VietNam)

1988 Old Town "Camper" canoe

1991 CD22 Cruiser - our first "real" boat, on which we discovered extended cruising and the PNW coast

1998 Bounty 257 Offshore Pilot, our current cruiser

It's no coincidence that the motorcycle habit dwindled away starting in 1991.
 
Age is getting the better of me, I forgot to mention my jet boats.

14 alumaweld sprint racer 320 hp

16 jetcraft sprint boat 70 mph hull


Looks like the trend is we have had more than one boat and less boats than motorcycles.

Does that make us biker boaters?

Keep em coming I see interesting boats that we have owned.
 
My first boat was a "kit" boat, 18' aluminum cabin cruiser, built by the city for use on a watershed lake. All aluminum. I was 16, and didn't have the $200...so I asked a friend of mine to go in with me...he did...but didn't tell me that he'd borrowed part of his half from his dad....who a year later wanted 1/3 ownership instead of his money back.
The deal taught me several lessons!

The rest in order...
16' homemade sail boat
14' Fabuglass runabout
14' Glaspar tri-hull
10' "bathtub" fishing boat
20' Pontoon that I built from scratch
1987 Starcraft 14' fishing boat
1965 24' Lonestar aluminum cabin cruiser
1996 Smokercraft Pro Alaskan (only boat that I bought new)
1985 18' Starcraft open fisherman
15' Duracraft jon boat
*1987 Party Barge pontoon
*1994 22' C dory Angler
*1985 Marathon 20' bowrider
*2007 12' cataraft inflatable pontoon boat
*2007 Tracker 12' jon boat

* still have these
 
It's kind of fun to think back:
- 12 Foot Home-made based on duck hunting design w/ 6Hp Sears
- 14 ft Sears Ted Williams Fiberglass w/ 10Hp Evinrude
- 10 Ft Home-made Hydra-plane with 25HP Johnson (which was swamped and sunk by backwash after 3rd trip --now appreciate foam flotation and anchoring cabilities of an outboard)
- 18 ft Wooden Lobster Skiff full of dry rot (and fishing and lobstering fun)
- 16ft Zodiak Inflatable w/ 25 Merc (Supposedly left by Jacques Cousteau's Calypso Crew after their study of the Guam Reefs. Only cost an extra few hundred for the history.
- 16ft Old Town Canoe
- 17ft Bayliner (semi ski and semi fish) w/ 90 Hp Force
- 22 ft CD Cruiser w/ 90 HP Suzuki (Great boat that let me continue Fishing and Pulling Pots and try some cruising.)
- 25 Ranger Tug (More Fishing and Cruising at a slower speed)
 
My list includes.

1965 Hydroswift 19' 125 HP Merc
1966 Cadillac 19' Aluminum 50 HP Merc
1975 Glaspar Trihull 16' 80 HP Merc
1984 C-Dory 22' Classic 90 HP Evinrude
2000 Rockport 16' Skiff 50 HP Suzuki
2002 Tracker 17' Targa 90 HP Merc
2003 C-Dory TomCat 24' Twin Johnson 140 HP
2006 C-Dory TomCat 255 Twin Honda 135 HP
Jon boat 16' 9.9 HP Evinrude
Sevymarine 10' Inflatable 9.9 Evinrude
Costco 10' Inflatable
Baltic 8.5' Inflatable 2 HP Honda

I still own and use the
Cadillac, Rockport, Tracker, TomCat 255, and Baltic.

Never have been on a sailboat.

Brent
 
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