what was your first "performance" boat?

[2.5_stoker]

hey guys lets hear it...what did ya start out with...or what was the boat that got you hooked? i got the speed bug from my dad and uncle steve...steve had a stoker and my dad has the 207 edge in my sig pic...i still dont own my first performance boat ...but im workin on it...thats the important part right?

[transomstand]

1975 Hydrostream Ventura II SE, first, and could be my last

[Tom Foley]

8 ' - Custom plywood V - bottom -Hurricane 10 Merc , new 1973 20 Merc , 25 -SS Merc.finally blew the bottom out of it at an EORC race in LI back in the day (70 's)

[paul folks]

77' viper xr2 150 cut dwn 20" to a 15" was a blast 2 drive and got me hooked... my 1st boat that i bought and owned myself was an 01' mirage river racer w/ 2.4 200...

[max200]

1968 13 ft boston whaler with a 40 hp johnson! Well I thought it was bad a$$ at the time till I got my 17 action with a 150XS.

[Pro300x24LD]

2002 Progression.

[specboatops]

1970 15Ft. G.W. Invader with a 110 ss Tower of Power ! ]

Chris

[Bruster]

When I was 14 my dad bought a 14' Starcraft "Arrow" and we put our 45 Merc on it. Well that was OK, but it was to slow to barefoot behind. In the classifieds there was a '66 65 Merc short shaft just a few miles from where we lived for $500. Off on my bicycle I went to look at it. The guy wouldn't sell it to me, said " come back with your dad". So I did and then I bought it. When we got it home dad ( I sure miss him) was a little nervous about putting a 65 on a boat rated for 50, but always game. So somewhere we found a 1/2" piece of aluminium, put that on, then the motor. The 65 would push the boat over 40 MPH which was more than enough to pull skinny kid like I was. In fact it would pull 2 of us barefoot. Not performance by todays standards, but pretty hot for the late 60's.

[concord 1]

1981 19ft belmont 125hp johnson....i know it wasnt the fastest thing on our lake but when i was 15 it sure seemed like it! i miss that boat!

[skydog]

1978 Hydro Vulture 1978 merc 1500

[whatsamerc??]

the boat that started it for me was my dads 16' fishing hawk with a 150 inline merc. it was made in meridian ms. and the guy said he directly copied an allison tri hull bottom. not sure how fast but it would spin a 28 big ear pretty good once it got on plane. the first boat i got was a hydrostream varmint with a warmed over looper. it was running 97 when i slung a rod out of the side and chewed up the motor pretty good. its a good thing i was close to the ramp. my brother still has my old varmint so i would say that it has ruined him too........benji

[clamponracing]

My first boat was a 1974 Eliminator 18ft v bottom jet with a 454 .The boat that got me hooked was a hydrostream vector with a 220 laser merc .

[2.5_stoker]

When I was 14 my dad bought a 14' Starcraft "Arrow" and we put our 45 Merc on it. Well that was OK, but it was to slow to barefoot behind. In the classifieds there was a '66 65 Merc short shaft just a few miles from where we lived for $500. Off on my bicycle I went to look at it. The guy wouldn't sell it to me, said " come back with your dad". So I did and then I bought it. When we got it home dad ( I sure miss him) was a little nervous about putting a 65 on a boat rated for 50, but always game. So somewhere we found a 1/2" piece of aluminium, put that on, then the motor. The 65 would push the boat over 40 MPH which was more than enough to pull skinny kid like I was. In fact it would pull 2 of us barefoot. Not performance by todays standards, but pretty hot for the late 60's.

i still have yet to get up barefoot!...only tried a couple of times...i usually give up after a couple mouths full of water and switch to my ski

[Charger200]

An aluminum Skiff about twice my age with a 9.9 merc.

I Ran er in shallow drive, n she porpoised so bad i cracked the hull.

Ran 35mph though

[gemini]

This will really date me. In 1958 (while still in high school) my first performance boat was a 1956 Yellow Jacket Riviera with Twin Mark 55's on a Husky trailer. It was a rocket at the time at 45mph. I bought the new birch hull Yellow Jacket in 1957 as a left over and put a 35 Johnson on it. No zip there so I put twin Mark 55's on a year later to out run a friend of mine with a Mark 75 on a 14' Carter Craft. I still have photos somewhere.