Rgsauger asked how many damned boats I have ... LOL

[pcrussell50]

Congratulations! It sure is nice when occasionally in life it’s something small and simple and stupid that we can fix that doesn’t cost us any money! Glad to hear you got it up and going. By the way, how many damn boats and motors do you have? Lol

Five. Though I barely deserve to post on S&F because I have never gone faster than 60mph in a boat I was driving. I never even had a boat until the Obama recession got going and people started shedding toys like there was no tomorrow. Then I jumped in with both feet. Two of them were $1000 or less. Haven't bought a boat since 2012.

Viper. Raised transom. Restored by previous owner. Needs a LWP but I don't have one. Wife hates it the same way wives hate sports cars. Will probably play with it a few more times and then sell it:
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Whaler 17 (1998, last year of the classic hull form):
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Whaler 13:
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Family recreational boat (Bahner 18 from when CA still allowed small boutique boat building):
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1968 (not a typo) Sportline 16 (Also from the boutique boat building era in SoCal. Hand laid, dual stringers, the old-timer who built it reached out to me here, it was neat to "meet" him. They ended up going out of business because the owner of the company refused to chopper gun, and couldn't compete any more). 1975 factory high compression bubble back V4 crossflow. Got 55 mph out of it with just me. The hull is too far gone now. It has a slow leak about half a gallon an hour, and the transom is toast. Now that I have small kids, I just can't fix it. I'm going to take the motor off and sell it separately, and trash the hull
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I have a thing for classic Whalers, even though they aren't particularly fast. :shrugs:

-Peter

[mrichartz]

Don't need to go fast hell nice viper and if you remember the original name of the site you have more right to post than most...
Nice litte coral of boats..
What sell the viper? You're in Nevada where? If you do think of it would be interested if i have the $$...
But id tell you keep it you'll regret it for sure..

[pcrussell50]

Don't need to go fast hell nice viper and if you remember the original name of the site you have more right to post than most...
Nice litte coral of boats..
What sell the viper? You're in Nevada where? If you do think of it would be interested if i have the $$...
But id tell you keep it you'll regret it for sure..

Boulder City/Hoover Dam … right across the River from AZ Where are you located in AZ? PHX Metro or down by Havasu?

-Peter

[mrichartz]

Oh do your about -+4 hours
I live in Glendale 15 miles from lake pleasant..
Or 4+ hours from Havasu...
Wanted to go to the races when i first moved even talked to baker434 about meeting up at parker but been so damn hectic just didn't work out..have get s** together and go more important things in life than worrying about the small crap will be here when i got back.. although if it wasn't be even more of a reason to just go.. lol