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Thread: switzer shooting star.s/n?
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03-31-2007, 08:46 AM #16
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A few months after your picture..still 1966..after the blowover..
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04-02-2007, 07:28 AM #1720 Foot Switzer Wing 2 X S3000 (Dust'n the Wind II)
!6 foot Wood Eltro Vee (2X Merc 1500's) (Dust'n the Wind IV)
15 foot Powercat 15C (2 X Merc 1500) (Dust'n the Wind III)
(Single engine boats are lacking something)
15’ Wooden Switzer Shooting Star...
16 foot Lee Craft Merc S 3000-(Gold Dust II)
(The exception proves the rule)
Obsolete and Proud of it
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04-27-2007, 05:36 PM #18Junior Member
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My father (Oley Berkis - Toronto Canada) owned and raced a Switzer Shooting Star - and yes those are photos of one. I was only a child in the mid 60's - but he loved that boat and raced many a marathon in Lake Ontario, etc. and did very well. There was a photo of him sitting on the bow paddling it across the finish line on the front of the Toronto Telepgrah newspaper back then. It was also used as a family boat for us at our cottage. Kerrie
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03-22-2008, 08:30 PM #19
Mike did you ever get the Shooting Star back in the water ??
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06-13-2008, 07:19 PM #20
It is not ready yet. got busy with customers boats & had to put it on the back burner. However we did just get it back out & it's coming along well. here are some pic's.
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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06-13-2008, 07:23 PM #21
more pic's
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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06-13-2008, 07:35 PM #22
more stuff
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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06-13-2008, 07:37 PM #23
glassing it up
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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06-13-2008, 07:41 PM #24
Glad to see your rolling on it again. Are you doing anything special to the bottom ??
Gave a quick impression of the one I got recently - http://www.retroboats.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=204 A blast to drive, but a smooth water only boat.
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06-13-2008, 07:44 PM #25
some more
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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06-13-2008, 08:11 PM #26
No nothing special to the bottom just a good clean up. This boat belongs to Harold Simburger & I thing he plans to show it more than run it. Just a few runs with his son Lynn. The s/n tag say's 2-6617 does this tell anybody anything about this boat? I have never seen a star like this one
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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06-13-2008, 08:42 PM #27
2 = Second hull design....might be fiberglass version
66 = 1966
17 = 17th one built that year
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06-13-2008, 09:11 PM #28
That was my guess. but I still never saw one like it. deck is flat with cockpit/dash way up front.
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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06-14-2008, 10:59 AM #29
Any signs of the deck having been reworked after it was made ??? What length is it ??
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06-14-2008, 11:13 AM #30
It started out life as a 15 ft 7 in boat. The bow was reworked to make it a 16 ft boat. I guess thats where the extra holes in the transom came from. dual engine had to be 16 ft. as the pic shows it had several motors on it. short shafts & long shafts and also duals. Swiss cheese. But it will live again. the deck is so lumpy that I can't use a in-line sander on the bow from dash to nose it would take Way to much fill to flatten it so we are going to leave it the way it was thin & wavy.
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."