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Downwindtracker2

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After getting on lakes with 12' Harbercraft and a 7.5 blue band Merc,rebuilt with the help here,I got the itch to head out on the salt chuck again. Looking on CL here's what I found,a local classic,within my price range, http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/rch/boa/1799505088.html

When I pointed it out to my wife I got "You need a project boat like a hole in the head,which I will give you if you get it !" :D

Well back to lake fishing.
 
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clarkbre

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Re: Wife's answer

Better a hole in your head than a hole in the hull of your new boat. Haha. Lake fishin' ain't that bad.
 
DuckHunterJon

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Re: Wife's answer

Yeah, usually the same response I get. That's when I remind her that most of the projects are for her and every now and then I need one for me!
 
royal0014

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Re: Wife's answer

Women; can't live with 'em, can't trade 'em for beer :D
 
woosterken

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Re: Wife's answer

wow, never heard of a sangster or a 145hp i/o i thought they were either 140 or 160 :(
i would think it better to throw a line in the water, than a line of credit in a hole surrounded by fiberglass!

woosterken
 
ovrrdrive

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Re: Wife's answer

I say you put your pants on and buy it anyway and after you fix it up name it "Hole in the Head" and start fishing the salt. ;)
 
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rbh

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Re: Wife's answer

How big are you going for????
because it gets rough out in the strait of Jaun de fuca (sp)
 
brianvolt7

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Re: Wife's answer

royal0014 said:
Women; can't live with 'em, can't trade 'em for beer :D
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What a bummer!

I do like that boat. My wife usually complains about the money I spend on my projects but as usual, in one ear and out the other.
 
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Downwindtracker2

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Re: Wife's answer

Sansters were very well made in Vancouver for the 'chuck,notice the bow chine on very stepped deep-V hull,and the closed bow.She would be dry as you smash through the big waves.I'm old enought to remember deep-Vs when were invented,and Sansters were one of the first to use that hull form. Dad had a 17 1/2' Larson deep-V with a 165 Mercruiser,you could take that boat up the inside passage to Alaska.Better a runabout with a good deep-V with a big motor than a flat bottomed cabin cruiser.

Yeah,early Merc I/Os were 120 and 165,the chevy four and six.

But I also remember pulling up with wind,waves and the tide running.It was all Dad and I could do,and my sons are grown.And I hate the fiberglass itch. Better to spend the summer camping beside a lake then grinding fiberglass on the driveway.
 
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