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Here's the old boat my grandpa gave me:   Sorry for the crap quality. I have a million better pictures of it, just have to find them. Interestingly enough the Model K engine is a marine conversion of a Hercules QXD, the brother to the motor in Mooecows milk truck.
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My grandfather bought it after selling his business. He had wanted one ever since he worked on Pelican Lake in Detroit Lakes MN as a server in a restaurant on the water in the late 40s to pay for school where he would watch the "speed boats" take people on rides. Occasionally when he had made good tips for a night he would pay the 5 CENTS(!) to go for a "speedboat ride". He told himself if he ever could afford his own speedboat he would get one. When I was growing up I was the only grandkid out of ten that had any interest in the boat (1937 Chris-Craft Custom Deluxe 19' Runabout (it is NOT A BARREL BACK... it is the predecessor to them and the much more rare "notch back" )). As he got older I slowly started taking over more of the maintenance and eventually he couldn't get in and out of it because of his hips. He still loved coming down to the water and watching me take it out, slowly started referring to it as "my (bigfuzzyjesus') boat". After he passed I found out it had been left to me. They take an insane amount of maintenance and care, every time I take it out its at least an hour ordeal to get it in and out of the water and cleaned up and covered to protect it from the bat poo poo in the boat garage. I change the oil once a season, which is ~9qts of SAE 30 with no filter, it also still runs on 6v and has a golf cart battery, and a bakelite auto-lite distributor that is insanely hard to find parts for (NOS only). Sorry for the wall of text but I haven't told many people that story, even the people I know that know I own the boat dont really "get it" and I would venture to guess at 23 I am one of the youngest people in the country with this vintage of CC. It was completely restored to concourse quality in 1987, and I have the pictures from the original restoration, still, it is getting long in the tooth, but until I finish school and get a real job some things will have to wait. If any of you goons ever get to northern MN (Park Rapids area) you're welcome to come over and take it for a spin, I love letting as many people as I can drive it, as it doesn't ride or drive like any other boat Ive ever been in. If anyone wants more /other pictures I can take them or see what I can dig up, I should try to get some video up too, sounds about is cool as Mooecows milk truck but underwater. And if you have random questions shoot!     Me driving  Super old and crappy, my apologies, but thats the money maker. VIDEO:http://youtu.be/rUAH8wjHWNM
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Dec 7, 2014 18:24
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Ha thats pretty much my career plan, make enough money to keep and maintain my boat! If you ever get close enough come drool! The boat is on a shore tracker system made by DH docks. Its essentially some big rear end 3 phase leeson AC motors with reduction drives and a block and tackle with stainless line to pull/push the trolley into/out of the water. They are stored in our boat garage about 40 yards back from the water that my great grandfather built before you had to get permitted to build on the water as you could never build a set up like this today. My great grandfather also owned a fuel oil, coal, and ice company, so we have the only gas pump on the lake! The fuel reel is an old reel he sourced off of an aviation fuel truck, with a farm tank gravity feed. I wish I had better pictures of the actual boat house, but here is my boat and my moms in the boat house:  Hers is a 1960 Thompson my grandpa bought the year my dad was born, he traded it on a mark twain in the 70s and it sat for sale for 2 years on a lot until all the varnish was peeling, he felt so bad he bought it back (for less than he got on trade) and refinished it and held onto it. Here they are in the water but you can see more of the track:  Annnnd heres my old mans boat:   A 1971 21' Boston Whaler Outrage ribside, his uncle bought it new for fishing in Canada when he was a Boston Whaler dealer. When his business fell on hard times he sold it to my grandparents who kept it in Morson Canada for fishing on Lake of the Woods until 2 years ago when my dad brought it back stateside and had it gone through and refinished. We still take it to Canada fishing ~2 times a summer but we keep it at our cabin on a lift now.
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Dec 7, 2014 19:41
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Someone tell me more about these ASA certs though, are they difficult to get? whats the likelihood of me finding a class to start the process in Minnesota or Iowa? My brother and I have a sunfish we love to rip around on, and just sold our hobie 16 because of lack of time to use it. But when I was 15 we went to the BVI on a barefoot cruise with just our family on a Hatteras (36 I think) and I remember thinking about how some day, I would get the licenses and be able to rent one of those catamarans with my family and run over mooring buoys while every experienced seaman around me laughed while I yelled at my wife about how to use a gaff.
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Dec 7, 2014 19:53
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Theres a house next to it, the boat house was originally supposed to have a "game room" on top of it with a pool table etc but it started caving in before they could even think about putting livable space on top (sandy earth). I lived there last summer, before that my grandparents lived there in the summer. I think my parents will retire up there, its where my mom is from.
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Dec 7, 2014 21:24
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There really isn't a way to run a remote on these motors, Chris craft offered a "partial flow" filter on these motors but since it was tapped off the galley to the mains it usually did more harm than good. Community consensus even today is just to run 30wt detergent free so there's no sludge build up in the sump and to change it every 50hrs or when it is winterized. I also thought about converting to electronic ign when I went through the distributor debacle, but in the 33 years my Grandpa owned it the only problem it had was the rotor cracking once (most likely because he installed the cap wrong). And even when that happened it was still cheaper to buy 3 nos rotors and a nos cap then convert it. The only other issue is having to clean up the points every spring. Also this community is insane about changing anything, I have caught crap before for using Phillips head brass screws to hold the floor boards in so I could take them out for the yearly hull cleaning in under an hour (never mind they're the same size as the originals in the same holes and I held onto all the originals). All the hardware is original and the screw slots all face the same direction, thing still has a generator for the same reason.
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Dec 8, 2014 20:11
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Beach bum our hobie would have just made you sad haha was more of a boat anchor when we got it, when we sold it it was seaworthy and sailable which it wasn't when we got it. But still very sad. Also quit teasing us crutt more heavy boats please!
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Dec 21, 2014 06:41
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Heres my fat butt starting my boat. Sorry about the snapchat quality and length, I didnt take it, but the sound is nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx3FxFsYPuk
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