My wife and I have been talking about me getting another fast boat for a couple years now as I am not happy with the max speed I get from my Xpress H22bay (50mph +-). I was dead set on an Allison XB2003 and was planning to get rid of the Xpress. I look at Facebook Marketplace fairly often and a few days ago I found a Hydrostream Vector in Houma, LA. The young man and I sent messages back and fourth a little and I ended up picking it up last night. So now I have the absolute ugliest boat on the face of the planet and am totally, 100% in love!!! I have dreamed of having one of these hooked nose, sculpted deck boats since I was a kid!

Before we start with the obligatory everything wood must be torn out, I know. I did a Viper and jumped in head first on it. There is a thread somewhere in here I started, but never finished. With this boat I want to add a basic interior, ie: floor, bench seat at the back, two buckets at the front. I imagine adding the floor would be the same as putting one into a core boat other than I have two sets of stringers and no core. I'm also planning on adding a floatation box under the deck like my Viper had. Adding all of this is going to make my boat heavier, but I want to make a comfortable for four of us to ride in at the same time.

By the way, it a 1986 built in March with a black hull and big flake green deck. The splash well has been deleted and there was a center seat box built up front. It looks like someone added transom knees after the fact and at one point, it had a foot throttle on a pedalstool. I'll take/post pictures in a little bit as I'm just getting my day started. She is definitely going to need a bunch of love to get to hauling my fat self around.

Josh