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Started with a custom built 2002 Malibu Sportster. Then sold it in 2005 and ordered a custom built 2006 Malibu Response LXi Barefoot Edition. No pics of the response, but here is a pic of the Sportster.
 

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Dustpan said:
Here's ours, a 13' Checkmate with a modified 70 horse Merc. This is my son at the helm.
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Rick, are you the original owner or did you pick that up out of Michigan? I squared off with that boat a couple time in an 11' Vapor Vette at Hardy Dam, Michigan. I never won because (A) I had a 50 HP Merc from the 70's with too small a wheel and (B) NO power trim so I was dragging WAY too much boat in the water.

Always loved that boat. Real sharp.
 
dodgetkboy78 said:
Leftcoast jeff! I am very interested in Teresa C! My great grampa was a norwegian shipright in the sanfran area during that time. My dad had a double ender named Proud Mary, that looks identical to the pics. Grandpa and great grampa built it in 37. He built hundreds of boats in his lifetime. many double enders for coast guard rescue.

I don't have any pics on my computer of my girl, Shark Bait, it's a 1970 31' Uniflite hardtop express, single screw 318. I put over 200 hours on her this summer. She is my true love, takes water like no other semi displacement boat I have seen, it's a boat you can feel good in, when the seas get upwards of 8', really rare for a 31' pleasure boat........ I'll try to get some to my photobucket account, or on here.
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If I recall. Alameda is where she was built, called a Sandstrom, she must have been a sight, all hardwood, brass shining. I've not been able to find much info, If you have any info, that would be awesome!!!:read2:

LCjeff

PS, we still have some double enders that trawl for salmon here in Monterey.
 
bargeahead said:
Jeff, having been there and done that re rebuilding a boat and in my case with the advice of a professional boat builder I only got three words for you. You doing good.
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She was slated to go to the crusher, was already in drydock for months, one of my buddies took ownership, redid the hull and decks, put it back in the slip and forgot her, that's when we got her, a little rough.

I have to admit, if it weren't for my buddy with the fiberglass skills, I would not know where to start. We work on his boat, then jump back to mine, teamwork works well.

LCjeff
 
bargeahead said:
Jeff, having been there and done that re rebuilding a boat and in my case with the advice of a professional boat builder I only got three words for you. You doing good.
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x2 Jeff, the Theresa C. is a beauty. Nowadays you can look at every boat in a marina and not find a single wooden boat. Few people have the ambition to save a wooden boat. It's cool to think of all the stories she could tell, and she still has more to come.... :cheers:
 
LeftCoastJeff said:
If I recall. Alameda is where she was built, called a Sandstrom, she must have been a sight, all hardwood, brass shining. I've not been able to find much info, If you have any info, that would be awesome!!!:read2:

LCjeff

PS, we still have some double enders that trawl for salmon here in Monterey.
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I called my dad and he has heard the Sandstrom name before, but doesn't know anything other than he is pretty sure he was another Norwegian boat builder. Great Gramps and Gramps probably knew him, I'll call Grandpa and see if he remembers anything, but he is getting pretty old......

Oh, dad said the name is Sandström.

:-D

 

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21 ft long and 8 ft wide fishing barge. It's a floating living room. BBQ, coffie maker, TV, etc. MMG
 

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Very cool and interesting thread. It is great to see such a wide diversification of another hobby among this bunch of A Body members.

My boat stories are probably boring, compared to most of them.

It has always been about what I can afford, and it wasn't much most of the time.
1st= Montgomery wards 12 foot aluminum v hull with a 7.5 air cooled clinton motor. (only new one was my first)
2nd= Boston Whaler 14 foot, bass boat conversion with a 45 hp Chrysler OB

3rd=70 17' IMP IO, bought it as a basket case with the motor all apart (I could talk about this boat for hours

4th= 85 Sunbird, IO, Iron Duke 4, (only a year old, guy got laid off at Lear)
Great times raising my kids on the water in this boat, sold it on a family vote chosing between drag racing and boating.

5th=96 17' Sylvan v6

6th=97 21' Bryant 350, put Eddy Marine headers and captains call, bigger valves, Eddy intake, roller rockers, 750 carb, got it up to 67, 70 was the goal. This is the only boat I lost money on, but we had some great times with it.
I finally got tired of the hassle of owning a boat around here, just too many laws. A deck boat like MoparMuscleGuy's will be my last when I retire.

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Campion 19 ft. Cuddy (canadian made) with a 200 EFI Merc. I just hope the new 4 strokes are as reliable as this ones been for the last 10 yrs. That's Jake guarding it.
 

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Here is a really old pic before I completely restored her.
I ended up stripping the interior down to the fiberglass hull and replacing all the stringers, foam, floor, carpet, seats, side boards, and other upholstery. I then repainted the hull and had the Johnson 115hp completely rebuilt with new pistons ect... I also redid all the wiring and electronics adding a tach and sound system and interior lights as I went. The interior is blue like it came from the factory and the interior lights I added are blue under-glow like what all the ricers have lol. I hid the under-glow tubes so it looks bad *** at night.

The boat is a 1981 Silver Line Deep V run-about with a 1983 Johnson V4 115hp Sea Horse out-board. With the 20 gallon under floor center tank I have about a 60mi range at cruse, which is about 9gallons and hour.

I recently purchased a wake-board tower and have yet to mount it but that is a winter project.

First pic is before I restored her second pic is last summer going through the locks from lake Washington to Puget sound, to go on a camping trip to Blake Island.
 

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