one of my early toys

[largecar91]

I dug up some old pics and found this one of an old hydro I had. Not sure of the year but I remember having a lot of fun in this thing when I was a kid! It had a Mark 28 on it.

[Dave S]

My first boat was a minmost. My older brother built it. The second brother used a 18 hp rude on it. I used a Mk28 with a Mk20 powerhead .......2 junk motors =1 junk motor.;) Had to use an 3/8 plate to raise the Ph up for the shift lever. My first Mod motor.:p

[afr]

looks like the wet back i got the plans in a old book i got

[Boz]

That pic brought back memories for me as well. Here's my home built TNT (Glen L Marine) that I bombed around in when I was a kid at the cabin.:smiletest:

[Dave S]

Like this thread....... lets keep it going..... First boat.:thumbsup:

[Mark75H]

Looks a little simpler than a *******/Cougar, but it might be.

My first boat was a 13 ft Switzer Bullet with a Mark35A powerhead over a long shaft KG9 type D Quickie. Elegant, but not really fast, probably because I didn't know that the timing could be turned way up. It probably went 46 or 47 mph when it should have went at least 10 mph faster.

I'll have to check and see if I can find the few pics I took of it

[MN4V]

My first boat I built and first woodworking project. I was 18 and I copied the ribs of a Ron Jones R class hydro and built it longer and added the pickle fork and different cowl.
Mark N
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm315/MN392/FirstBoat-Side.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm315/MN392/FirstBoat.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm315/MN392/FirstBoat-Rear.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm315/MN392/FirstBoat-Inside.jpg

[mk30h]

I'm pretty sure the picture is of a hydro called Tiny Titan.(is that a Mk10?) Back in the early 70's my buddy and I decieded to bulid ourselves a hydroplane. I scoured the pages of boating magazines for a good boat. I settled on Hal Kellys Buzzard, while he chose the Tiny Titan. He got his finished well before me, but his much simpler boat didn't really cut it. He was an OMC fan and put a Green 10 Johnson, while I wouldn't launch mine till I found a good engine. Needless to say when I put my Mk20H againts his - well he was embarassed. Even more so when I beat the 14 ft runbaout with the Stinger. Still have the boat and the motor 38 years later.:smiletest:

[Mark75H]

Very nice lines Mark

[mr fun]

Very nice lines Mark

your very talented :thumbsup: beautiful work :iagree: a bud here had the TNT w/50 rude, the thing hopped like a speed skiff, said I was the only one of his freinds that would ride with him :D

[Baja 252]

Back in 1971 I talked my dad into letting me buy a used Neal hydroplane. We brought it home on the top of his company car. It had a large fin on the bottom of it, so we used tires to keep it from denting the roof of the car.

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I put the 20hp Johnson off our fishing boat on it.

http://i41.tinypic.com/28r1vsg.jpg

I even used to take the girl next door for rides. Wish I still had it for my son.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2v9ddav.jpg

Bill

[mr fun]

non thru hub exhaust, probably a throttle and a shifter. that would be a kneel down hydro :D who's the girl? that LTD looks like a scene from the 70's show! very cool :cheers:

[Li'l Toy]

was an 8' Optimist pram set up for rowing my Dad built for me when I was 6. When I was 9, they gave me a 3 horse Johnson--no shifter, you just spun the motor around to go backward.

Somewhere in there, I learned that if I sat in the middle seat (the motor was stiff enough you didn't have to hold the tiller), the boat kinda acted funny, the motor got noisier and your were running much faster--I had learned about planing off.

My first "speedboat" was a 14' Glen-L Tuffy I built when I was 16. 40 hp Evinrude, aluminum prop, no idea of speed but it sure felt fast.

My Dad and I built a Minimax for my brother, a Minimost for a friend, I built a Minimax with my future brother-in-law while I was in college, and my son Matt (on these boards) and I built one as his first boat, I guess when he was around 10. He used to pull it on a 2X4 trailer behind our riding mower down the street to a drainage canal.

[PARKER RABE]

heres mine

[Tom Foley]

My first boat I built and first woodworking project. I was 18 and I copied the ribs of a Ron Jones R class hydro and built it longer and added the pickle fork and different cowl.
Mark N
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm315/MN392/FirstBoat-Side.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm315/MN392/FirstBoat.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm315/MN392/FirstBoat-Rear.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm315/MN392/FirstBoat-Inside.jpg

Super nice work and great pics of it . No way it spun that wheel though !!

[Jimboat]

Great looking boat, Mark. (I haven't heard from you for a while. hope all is well!)

[MN4V]

Great looking boat, Mark. (I haven't heard from you for a while. hope all is well!)
Jim,
I'm doing OK, but work could be busier.
Hey, I'm making some changes to the Sport C. This time I'm doing it from intuition and crossed fingers on the design. You can't say I don't try new ideas. What do you think?
I'm still working on the pod design.
Mark N
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm315/MN392/dcp_0801.jpg

[Jimboat]

very interesting sponson design. your aerofoil shape is radical too! is that new?

[MN4V]

Yes, they were added to my original design. The tunnel length was extended with the S added in. And the new sponson turning radius added to the sponson. It's made from 7 layers of carbon fiber that was vacuum bagged in a form I made. Lots of new ideas I'm trying. I'm trying to keep the good aspects of the old design and working out the bad ones.
Mark N

[Tom Foley]

Here is a couple of shots of a few early toys .

[http://i40.tinypic.com/1i0oeh.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/ve19tv.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/10rlegi.jpg
Blue boat is 8 ft long , 20 hp Merc, Hydro is 10'3 " Yamato model 80

[Tom Foley]

That little blue V bottom has been out Shinnecock Inlet, anyone who knows the area knows how crazy that can get ! I guess being 16 explains why anyone would try that .:eek: