To Much Time On My Hands
A while back, a couple years ago now, I bought the boat in my Avitar and mentioned at the bottom of all my posts. A 1980 Ebbtide Dyna Trak 160. A 16ft Tri-Hulled Bass Boat. It came with an Evinrude 65hp outboard. Unfortunately, it don't have trim and tilt on it, and Lord knows it's heavy. None was ever designed for this particular outboard. Shortly after I bought it, got it home, Life jumped in the way, in a very big way. Ms. Joyce had to have open heart surgery, then knee surgery and a few other things too. Don't forget, my knee surgery also. Well, it's satin storage all this time, waiting patiently. Now, the Navy going to finally get to the court cases, (They say), start of the year...Maybe they'll get to mine...
Momma wants to move to be closer to her youngest daughter, and two grand babies. North Central Florida. Ok, great. We need two vehicles, plus a house, and I want my boat fixed. My dilemma revolves around, my boat. It needs some TLC, and a bunch of that. New lower deck, and probably floatation foam, Either sink mega dollars into a 1973 65 horse and pray, or I been looking around. I found a place out west called onlineoutboardmotors.com. Seems to have good deals all the time. probably replace the outboard with something newer. Now I really like this boat, but been turning over, do I strip this one and junk it, and buy something a bit better, without ALL the work, or put the time and sweat into this one??? Been some long nights over this one, for sure...
Proud to have served with and supported the Units I was in: 1st IDF, 9th INF, 558th USAAG (Greece), 7th Transportation Brigade, 6th MEDSOM (Korea), III Corp, 8th IDF, 3rd Armor Div.
1980 Ebbtide Dyna-Trak 160 Evinrude 65 Triumph