What a great find, that looks like the perfect size boat and as you say, looks to be in great shape. Congrats!
I'm very happy with my rowboat Flier for fishing trips over water up to two miles out and back, but after that it gets to be a too long day for me. Since I'm on the Connecticut river I've got a 40 mile stretch between dams, most of which I've never fished.
I like simple, low maintenance, and also traditional looking boats, and so have been looking on Craigslist for something light that I can easily tow behind a ten year old Subaru Outback, and I think I just found the perfect boat (for me). It's a 1958 Crestliner Super Seaman 14'. It's in near perfect shape -- just needs the seats replaced ad a little shine to come up as a classic fishing skiff.
I already had an '86 8hp Mariner 2-stroke, that I bought new 35 years ago, and had probably put 50 hours on total. It's just been stored mostly. Seems like an economical lightweight combo that I can fish for crappies from here on the CT river, and tow and launch with ease. I'm looking forward to prettying up the boat.
I did take her out the other day for a test spin on a local pond after doing a quick clean of the carb, rebuilding the water pump, and changing the lower unit oil. Went well for the first ten minutes on a local pond, but the carb idle circuit clogged up. Making lemonade from lemons, I just fished where she'd stopped, and caught two crappies, 9" and 10", half a dozen nuisance dink bass, and one 14" bass that was all mouth and gut. Looked like it should have been a 17" but decided to stay small.
I played with the choke partially out and was able to make it back to the launch site. I've since done a thorough cleaning of the carb, and polishing the float valve seat, which I think will clear up the teething problems.
Looking forward to gettin out after some crappies in my new tin bucket -- maybe even tomorrow!
What a great find, that looks like the perfect size boat and as you say, looks to be in great shape. Congrats!
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A great little boat
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Good looking boat. Looks like it would fish very well
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Beautiful find. Glad to see you were able to get the motor going again. Hope you have many enjoyable seasons with it.
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Wow, beautiful little rig!
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If it's of interest, I'll post my progress with this boat. Here's a pic of what it looked like when I first got it. Seats had old carpeting on them, and the middle thwart had slipped below its attachment cleat on the starboard side, and trapped the aluminum flotation tank against the floor.
The only way I could get that seat out was to saw it off at both ends. It was in poor shape anyway, and I plan to replace all the thwarts anyway.
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