Help Identifying boat!

[Romadbuff]

Need some help Identifying this boat I picked up.

it is:
16.5' long (pontoons)
Crew Deck is 10' long x 6' wide

it has a self contained trailer system



Anything you can tell me will be more than I have now <lol>
Buff

 

[Jeep Man]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

Looks like the original McGiver.

 

[Romadbuff]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

Looks like the original McGiver.

lol, no lie, the wife and I are beginning to think it is homemade, the guy I bought it from, bought it from someone else a while ago and has no other information about it.

Buff

 

[MH Hawker]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

I would guess its one of the earlier ones made before alum logs became common and good trailers were developed I am guessing 1960 or so. What dose it say on the tittle. That is only the second one I have ever seen with the trailer built into the boat.

 

[IslandManMitch]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

Do the wheels flip-up after you get it in the water?

 

[Romadbuff]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

Yes sir, you pull that pin at the top, you can not see it but there is a bar about halfway down, using the handle at the top you pull the whole assembly up until you can put the leaf springs on it.

Buff

 

[The Rooster]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

Thats freaky looking Buff, and I think you should restore it to its former glory. "Mitch, and Hawker" have plenty of cash to help you out.

 

[Romadbuff]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

lol yep, the project is underway, going to rebuild the engine this weekend, the wife is headed to Home Depot to get a sand blaster and some marine paint, brother in-law is coming up to help with the wiring. I'll post photos as we go, thanks for the inputs.

 

[MH Hawker]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

:facepalm:

 

[IslandManMitch]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

I have a boat so I have no cash. All I have to offer is encouragement.

 

[Romadbuff]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

so, according to the state registration office, it is a 1972 Fisherman, but, I have been unable to find any info on it.

 

[5150abf]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

What a kooky little boat, pretty ingenious how they work the trailer into it though.

I woudl have geussed laot older than 72, aluminum welding was pretty common by then but I suppose someone could have still made them.

I sure am glad we have mastered aluminum welding, I can't imagine building boats out of steel.

 

[IslandManMitch]

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"I sure am glad we have mastered aluminum welding, I can't imagine building boats out of steel." Don't say that to loud around the boys that build aircraft carriers.

 

[5150abf]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

I can't imagine building aircraft carriers either, it is enough of a challenge to build pontoons, then again they don't build 32 carriers a day.

 

[Jeep Man]

Re: Help Identifying boat!

I can't imagine building aircraft carriers either, it is enough of a challenge to build pontoons, then again they don't build 32 carriers a day.

Not to mention, getting completed aircraft carriers out of Elkhart Indiana could be interesting.