Boats you have owned

Hi,

14' McKee Craft w 55hp and later a 75hp Johnson
24' Grady White walk around cuddy w 200hp Johnson
14' AMF outrigger style sail boat
19' Scout center console w 115 hp Yamaha
12' Mokai motorized kayak 5hp Honda Jet*
23' Venture 2008 w 150 hp Yamaha*

the last three I bought new
* indicates still owned
D.D.
 
Very short list
We own and still use a 1976 14' Seanymph with 15hp Johnson, 1994 Parker 2320 with 225hp Yamaha and 1965 Lightning sailboat.
We sold the sailboat last year after it was severely damaged at the sailing club. The new owner was not able to save it so converted it into a bar in his basement and the rigging (boom, mast, spar, sails, etc) "sails on" his other Lightnings.
 
In Order:

9 Livinston
15 Lone Star Fiberglass
17 Apollo
21 Glas Ply
26 Chris Craft Cavalier
7.5' Livingston
30 Chris Craft Connie (destroyed along with marina in winter storm)
31 Chris Craft Commander Sedan
35 Chris Craft Commander Sport Sedan
17 Chris Craft Corsair
32 Carver 3207 Aft Cabin
10' Livingston
10.5 Inflatable
25 Bayliner 2560 Trophy
25 Carver Sata Cruz
25 Bayliner 2560 Trophy (reaquired)
29 Bayliner 2958 Avanti Command Bridge
8.5' Livingston

Not as long a list as I thought it might be.
 
First to current:
18' Chrysler Lone Star
Perception Dancer Kayak
21' Aluminum Pilot House In Board, built from plans
15' Montgomery Sail Boat
Pacific Seacraft Flicka Sail Boat
15' Boston Whaler CC
DC-10 Sail Boat, built from plans *
Necky Jive Kayak
8' West marine Dinghy
12' Sunflower Sail Boat *
16' Cruiser C-Dory *
West Marine Mini-Dinghy *
Currently have the last two on the list. We do wish that we had kept the little Montgomery as well.
 
We started boating and water skiing the California Delta on my in-law's 16' Silverline. since then:
16' Enterprise Tri Hull
18' Cobalt Cathedral Hull
24' Four Winns Vista
30' Sea Ray Weekender
39' Krogen Trawler
TC-255 TomCat
plus 4 assorted dinghy's Zodiac, Avon, Achilles....

No next boat planned! :wink

 
Can not wait to hear from Dusty after he gets back from his weekly casino run..... Where are ya Dusty?

C-Dory 16 Cruiser (Sold to C-Brat)

C-Dory Tom Cat 24 (Bought from Dusty/EQ -Sold to guy in FL with grandchildren...lost touch)

C-Dory 18 Angler, Hull # 14 of 14 from the Tolands (Sold to same C-Brat as the CD16)

Still own Rosborough RF-246 Wheelhouse (me and Les at EQ built her)

Still own Rosborough RF-246 Sedan Custom Built Heads Up Floor Plan...(EQ/Les and myself project...and project still going.. boat has yet to hit the water...but she is very nice.... and may be sold as new in Spring) Floor Plan and other photo in FREEBYRD album.
http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_ ... _photo.php

The rest of them have been family or friends boats... Just too many great boats and too short of life.

Byrdman
 
16' Coleman canoe
17' Coleman scanoe with 3hp Tanaka
12.5' Seaeagle RIB with 18 hp Nissan 4 stroke
22' 2000 C-Dory Cruiser with twin Honda 40's
12' Mokai kayak with Honda 6hp 4 stroke jet drive

Jay
 
Until the C-Dory, we were sailors. If you had told me 5 years ago that my cruising style would be SO changed by a powercruiser, I would have been rolling on the floor laughing.

Previous boats:
MacGregor sailboat
Corsair trimaran sailboat
Com-Pac SunCat catboat sailboat

While out and about today on Wild Blue, I came across a couple Hobie Adventure Island sail-tri-yaks. Light winds, clear blue sky, temps in the 70s... I visited with one of the guys on the AI. Looked like a lot of fun. But, even on this nearly calm wind day, his hind-end was wet. I was VERY comfortable in my C-Dory. And dry. 8)

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
Well Jim B. after seeing your motorcycle list I thought your boat list might take two pages.

My list is short also:

1. Grumman 17' shoe keel canoe, took it on the wildest rivers I could find in W. Va., Va. and NC. Also several trips to the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area. Looked like it had lived its life in a perpetual hail storm.

2. 1967 Boston Whaler Nauset (forerunner of the 17' Montauk) powered with a new then 1984 (approximately) Mercury 70. Sold it many years later for more than I had in it. Wish I had kept it for a runabout.

3. 17' Mad River Canoe (still have)

4. 15' Mad River solo Canoe (still have)

5. 20' Lund Alaskan powered by a Honda 90

6. 14' Mad River solo Canoe (still have)

7. 22' C-Dory Cruiser powered by a Honda 90 (best of all)

Boat I drooled over for many years but never had was a Pacific Seacraft Flicka sailboat.

Harper
 
Flicka's really are a remarkable little boat. A few have made it around the world. We felt very safe in "Alacrity" sailing in the Columbia River Gorge and that really is saying something.
 
We've had a 1996 Boston Whaler 20 Dauntless since new. It is a dual console boat with a 200 Yamaha and it can hit nearly 60. It's a great boat for Lake Washington and that's where we keep it in the summer now.

A few years ago we bought the C-Dory and it's a great boat for commuting in the San Juans as well as cruising with a few people.

Both boats are great for their intended purposes.

If only the next boat could be a late model Nordhavn 62...
 
1.) 12’ aluminum rowboat
2.) 11’ classic wooden moth class sailboat (I restored it.)
3.) AMF Apollo 16 racing sailboat (I painted a house and barn to get it.)
4.) 17’ tandem Prijon Excursion kayak **
5.) 2004 CD 25 ** (I first saw it on ebay and bought it privately the next day after my wife said to go for it.)
6.) Sea Eagle SE 8 inflatable **

** Currently own
 
Well I have two lists....boats I've owned and boats I have known..

Owned
1) Late 60's or early 70's home built Skip Jack (my uncle built this with free plans from Popular Mechanics magazine).
2) 80's 12' aluminum Jon Boat
3) 2000 Bateau designed D4 (my first build)
4) 2000 Bayliner Capri Cuddy
5) 2005 Bateau designed D4 (my second build)
6) Mercury 6.5' inflatable
7) 2007 C-Dory Tomcat

Known/Operated
1) 80's 14' MFG tri-hull
2) Late 70's 24' Chris Craft Cavalier
3) 1994 Ski Nautique
4) Late 80's 28' Slickcraft
5) (2) 80's 26' Romarine with single diesel
6) (2) Early 2000's 40' Hydra-terra vessels
7) (3) Late 90's custom built twin engine aluminum passenger vessels
8) Pearson 26' sailboat (not sure of year)
9) 105'/69 ton 'Majestic Princess'

There are others but I can't remember the brands off the top of my head...
 
Owned is pretty short:

8ft Plywood dingy (worked for this when I was 6yo -- lived on it every day possible, and tide to tide in the summers). Sidney BC.

12 ft Montgomery Sailboat

17 ft Oldtown Tripper (1976) and looks like new *

Oldtown Nantucket sea kayak *

15 ft Montgomery Sailboat *

22 C-Dory Cruiser -- '05 twin 40 Yami's *

8ft Wolverine inflatable *

* indicates still owned.

Worked in college as a sailing and aquatics instructor:

Sailed Hobie's, 12 Monocat, 16-18, AquaCats, O'Day 16, OK dingy, Canoes, kayaks, Kawanda Dory, Zodiac's 12 & 16, Glasply 16 with a 100 Merc OB. Might be off on the lengths some, (it's been a while). Most fun of my life, as far as water fun goes.

Love the C-Dory cruising though.

Harvey
SleepyC
 
My first owned boat is a story. While still just a Seaman Apprentice in the Coast Guard, at my first unit in Florida, Station Cortez, we were responding to a reported "hazard to navigation" which turned out to be a scuttled 18 foot runabout that was cracked amidships from port to starboard. We towed it back to the station, hauled it out over the seawall, causing more damage, and there it sat while we ran the HIN and FL numbers to find the owner to no avail. Finally, the OinC told us to take the chain saw to it and put it in the dumpster and get it the H E double hockey sticks off the station. I asked him if it just disappeared, would he mind. He did not, so with a little help from the morale officer (lending me the morale trailer) it ended up at my house where my wife and I spent days, no weeks, fiberglassing, painting and restoring this soggy broken hull. We had no, zip, zilch idea what we were doing, but in the end, it floated. Now for an engine.

Being a seaman apprentice and getting the most undesirable jobs, I got to clean out the Station's storage shed (keep in mind this is Florida with cockroaches the size of large Poodles). Way in the back I found a vintage, and I mean vintage old OMC pull cord outboard that you had to wrap the cord to start. It had all of 2.5 horses. If you touched the metal casing while steering it by hand, you felt all "tingly." When I found it, it didn't work. I asked the Chief, if it were to start working, could I use it while stationed here. It wasn't on inventory, had to be at least 30 years old, didn't seem right to discard it. He agreed, and so with a little help from the engineers, I had my 2.5 horse motor on my 18 foot runabout. Yes, it was slow. No, it didn't get on a plane. But by God we had a boat, and we had lots of fun on it and it is still the best boat I have ever had.
 
As Byrdman put it, "Just too many great boats and too short of life".

Last night I sat and tried to remember them all that we have owned. I could not remember a couple of their brands but it was over 10 vessels.

I also have had the privilege of operating and maintaining an equal number of good government boats.

Byrdman has it exactly right: "too many great boats and too short a life".

Here's to y'all :cocktail , for the interesting thread.

Dan
 
First of all, I have to say I have "hobbied" with boats for over 30 years -- looking for the perfect one. Here is my not quite total list:
15' fiberform, 35 hp evinrude
16' bayliner, merc i/o
18' seaswirl, 90 johnson
15' chrysler, 130 volvo i/o
21' cruisers, inc, 350 omc i/o
16' mirrorcraft, 18 nissan
15' sea nymph, 40 johnson
16' hewescraft, 50 force
15' hewescraft, 40 johnson
16' hewescraft, 50 johnson
15' hewescraft, 30 yamaha
14' hewescraft, 30 johnson
20' mirrorcraft, 115 suzuki
16' crestliner, 40 nissan
21' lund, 90 yamaha
19' lund, no engine
14' duracraft, 25 suzuki
15' sabercraft, 35 evinrude
22' c-dory, 70 johnson then 100 yamaha
16' c-dory, 50 johnson
19' starcraft, 88 johnson
18' duckworth, 150 johnson
18' tracker pontoon, 40 johnson
There are a couple of others I've forgotten, but that is most of the list. Guess that I should've been in business, cause I can see a lot of taxes I've paid. Different strokes for different folks. Ron
 
Boats I've owned.

8' plastic boat used one season. It froze and shattered into hundreds of pieces. I was devastated. My parents bought it for me when I was 12 years old for cleaning out the cow barn every spring. The next year I bought (with their help) a 12' smoker craft aluminum boat. I've still have it and have owned it for 44 years. I used to live in that boat fishing many of the local Lakes including Spirit Lake. I rowed completely across Spirit Lake just to fish the far side where I thought the really big ones would be. I later bought a 6 HP Sears outboard. We then to used it in the Cowlitz River. We had to use the oars to help make it up through the rapids. People in their jet boats used to shake their heads at us as they flew by. My buddies would say how embarrassing that was. I told them to shut up because we would out fish them when we got to the mouth of the Toutle and for the most part we generally did. Caught a forty pounder on 8 pound test line in that little boat. Took 45 minutes and several almost capsizes to do it. The next boat was a 14' Monark jet sled with a 35 HP Merc. I used that for many years fishing everywhere a fish could swim. I sold that and bought a Lund 1800 Fisherman with a 115HP Johnson in 1994 so I could fish the salt. It just got too crowded on the Cowlitz with all the local guides and a-holes from Bellevue. That boat has been all over Vancouver Island as well as 18 miles off shore at Westport. It has crossed the Columbia Bar many times on the way out to fish the CR bouy. That was only with a compass and not a GPS. I still own the Lund. It is a great small boat and fishes very well. My last boat is a 26' Cape Cruiser Marinaut. I love that boat. I'll never sell it or want for more.
Forrest
 
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