Hydrostrem HST Picklefork

[STV Tunnel]

Many years ago on here there was another poster besides myself that knew about the few HST pickleforks they made - not the V-Wing but a full interior / back seat HST without a pointed bow

This post might have even been when the forum was black background with yellow text basic BBS in the 90s

Anybody know anything? Pics? I know they exist cause I almost bought one new rigged with a 3.4

Thanks

[LakeFever]

Are you talking about the AE-21?

[David]

The AE21 was sort of an HST bottom with a Vking ish deck. Are you thinking of this boat? I found it at https://hydrostream.com/pages/hydrostream-v-wing

[STV Tunnel]

That is the V-Wing I thought - no this boat I am speaking of was an HST, full interior, seats, walk around room, deck etc., with 2 points up front

Hopefully someone recalls

[Scream And Fly]

Oh man the old forums. I'm really curious now so I'm going to look for info on that. I am not sure, but I think I may have heard about that HST.

[STV Tunnel]

Hey how's it goin Greg - yes the old forum was a great resource as this one is - before that was only the AOL forums and before that nothing as there was basically nothing aside from USENET and before that not really an internet

I can remember asking for info on my STV LTV back then and no one on the net was even familiar with that boats existence, only the pickleforks


The HST I saw was out of Missouri, was mainly white with the red orange black brown stripes typical of then, had a 3.4 on it and was basically brand new - there had to be more than one because they guy had other ads / literature. Something was up with him because everything he had was for sale - that new boat, a new BMW, his house etc.

I almost bought it but my friend talked me out of it due to the problematic engine and the white elephant unicorn hull which is probably a very good thing in the long run because I got one of the first serial numbered STVs he built that lasted me 20+ years of hard service with its Kevlar / Vinyl Ester hull and sold it for a darn good amount after that.

My friend asked me about that HST a few days ago - he remembered it as I did and I got curious again

[bigboy]

In the previous forum there were images comming by that users posted. I once saw a hst like you described. Had pickles but i believe other mods too. I remember i tried to look for the picture in tthe past and save it but could not retrieve it. That one looked rough though.

[Stoker1]

We need to see the pictures of the three jackplates stacked together with a V6 Evinrude again. Talk about old photos.
I had Jeff Yammer's Vking with Yamaha as my screen saver for years.

[David - WI]

The problem (or a problem) is that so many of the pictures posted to S&F were actually hosted on some "free" image hosting site... and most of those went under or started charging $$ and people let their accounts expire

[David - WI]

You can view archived pages from S&F going back to the 1990's... but the images aren't archived - just links to where the images used to be hosted.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991012...eamandfly.com/

[RADER]

That was an experimental boat that Howard built, it’s called V wing

[STV Tunnel]

That was an experimental boat that Howard built, it’s called V wing

This was a full interior 2 front seat / back seat boat with lots of walk around room - not the single seat V-Wing.

I hope someone sees this that has a picture