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12-28-2011, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by OL40SVX

show off!!!!
see you in Miami!!!
the old guy!!!

Ken, I dont mean to insult you, but you sure had a ugly banana, amazing how far you have come!!!!!!

12-28-2011, 06:28 PM

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Hey that is one of the two boats we showed at the 78 Miami Boat Show. We only made one with the blue tint windshield...it had candy stripe blue and white upholstery.

We called at the last minute and ....Yes, of course we have inside show space for you sir!!

Boy has the world changed over the past 40 years

Kurt, Charlie..I guess we all have BANANA's in our "history"...
no this one was not ours...good lookin' though..!!

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12-28-2011, 07:54 PM

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Kurt, Charlie..I guess we all have BANANA's in our "history"...
no this one was not ours...good lookin' though..!!

I think that boat was owned by ray leroux and was kept at port Edgewood marina, was a Charlie boat! Found it's way to new Hampshire then cape cod where it was owned by my ex next door
Neighbor, then cape cod divers let it fall into disrepair. I think it is still owned by someone on here by, the name of old school. Tell me Charlie after all this being said it probably is a different boat . Also the boat aim thinking of was a 330 trs boat.

12-29-2011, 05:10 AM

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Cool Kurt! I remember lookin at that with my dad at Ricker's yard in Hamilton. I wanted to move up from my jetboat. Cool set up. How did it go? B

12-29-2011, 05:19 AM

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Cool Kurt! I remember lookin at that with my dad at Ricker's yard in Hamilton. I wanted to move up from my jetboat. Cool set up. How did it go? B

It handled very well. Always flew level and landed straight. Very heavy for a 24' boat.

12-29-2011, 06:16 AM

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Ken, I dont mean to insult you, but you sure had a ugly banana, amazing how far you have come!!!!!!

Totally agree!!! but that is not how it looked when I was done with it!!

12-29-2011, 07:47 AM

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I think Charlie should have fixed you up with a better Engine Hatch. That Flopper doesn't look like fun...

12-29-2011, 08:01 AM

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I think Charlie should have fixed you up with a better Engine Hatch. That Flopper doesn't look like fun...

That pic was taken 20+ yrs ago! We had just got it in the water after a long sleep...

12-29-2011, 12:16 PM

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Sorry, not one of my boats. Giveaway is the bow lights right under the bow rail. We did build a boat of the same color scheme early on, but not that one.

HATCH>>>>>for the record that hatch contraption was not one of my ideas. The only twin engine boat I ever built had Kiekhaefer vents on top and opened in a normal manner.