Re: Please help ID this Primordial SternDrive
Its a damm shame someone mounted one of those foils on it.
I should start selling foils for trailers... Tell folks to mount them above their tires to create "aerodymanic lift" or something.
Somebody would buy it.
I couldn't agree more! Boondoggle at best - Harmful at worst.
Ok - lots of good input - still searching. The boat has been identified... it's from plans by William D. Jackson
http://www.dngoodchild.com/5181.htm
www.floatyourboat.info/jackson.html.
It's the Voyageur ... those who know believe it's probably the only one in existance. Can't say if that's a bad thing or a good thing :~)
The transom isn't rotten - what you see there is the fiberglass overlay peeling away from the plywood. The plywood is actually pretty solid.
What's odd is that it was originally an outboard design - a boat for slow cruising in shallow water. So why did he go with this V8 power plant and outdrive that doesn't tilt ... making slow cruising in shallow water difficult at best ... and which had to be expensive?
The whole thing is really well built for what I presume is an amateur job. In the cabin there's a head. There's a door on it that swings out and is also the door from the aft section to the cabin itself - depending on where you latch it. That door is square and true. There are other areas - such as the top - where the wood is sagging - but overall it's a marvelous piece from a time when Men had "Spare Time" to do things like "Carve This Barbeque from of a Slab of Solid Granite and Save Money"
I know that's true - my dad worked two jobs and built a house. I can't find my *** with both hands when it comes to having time to get things done.
P.
