so alot of my buddies have vintage boats, we go out and cruise around and I feel like the odd man out with my Carolina skiff, but of course I could care less if I hit shit with it :smile:
So we camped in Mt Dora this weekend and attended the vintage boat show that's held there every year, just makes me want a classic more than ever, if you were there, yes I was the jackass that parked a late model center console flats boat right in the middle of the show area :thefinger:. I have even posted an add trying to maybe trade My cushman for a smaller runabout vintage boat.
Perusing craigslist today and see this add for "60's vintage walkthough boat and tee-nee trailer $50" it was about 50 miles from me I call and shoot over there. I figure worst case the tee nee is worth the money. Turns out the boat really isnt that bad. Considering that during Hurricane Charley it and the small building it was housed in was launched across a field!!!! (we live right where Charley made landfall)
Wifes not too happy, I just keep saying, it was only $50! There are only a couple of gashes from the hurricane. surprisingly there are hardly any stress cracks and the transom looks better than my skiffs does :doah: The boat I believe is a '58-59 Crosby, ironically the model is "Hurricane":smile:
I'm going to attempt to pull the deck off and go from there, if it gives alot of problems I'll just go to town with the sawzall and cut it up for the garbage. the trailer was pretty good score, its actually in pretty good shape just surface rust, and it towed nice for sitting around for quite few years, I ran it up to 80 and nothing fell off on the way home :thumbsup:
If any of members in the middle of the US see any Cosby's rotting away somewhere, think of me I need some hardware parts :thumbsup:
So we camped in Mt Dora this weekend and attended the vintage boat show that's held there every year, just makes me want a classic more than ever, if you were there, yes I was the jackass that parked a late model center console flats boat right in the middle of the show area :thefinger:. I have even posted an add trying to maybe trade My cushman for a smaller runabout vintage boat.
Perusing craigslist today and see this add for "60's vintage walkthough boat and tee-nee trailer $50" it was about 50 miles from me I call and shoot over there. I figure worst case the tee nee is worth the money. Turns out the boat really isnt that bad. Considering that during Hurricane Charley it and the small building it was housed in was launched across a field!!!! (we live right where Charley made landfall)
Wifes not too happy, I just keep saying, it was only $50! There are only a couple of gashes from the hurricane. surprisingly there are hardly any stress cracks and the transom looks better than my skiffs does :doah: The boat I believe is a '58-59 Crosby, ironically the model is "Hurricane":smile:
I'm going to attempt to pull the deck off and go from there, if it gives alot of problems I'll just go to town with the sawzall and cut it up for the garbage. the trailer was pretty good score, its actually in pretty good shape just surface rust, and it towed nice for sitting around for quite few years, I ran it up to 80 and nothing fell off on the way home :thumbsup:
If any of members in the middle of the US see any Cosby's rotting away somewhere, think of me I need some hardware parts :thumbsup:
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