One More Floater Is Done And Ready-ish For Dora-ish
How it started.
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooongtime fellow WoodyBoater Randy Rush has delivered us a fun floater for the entire community to use as marketing material to get more folks into the passion. It is possible to go out, float, and return …IN STYLE… for under $3K, now you may not do all that swell at the tahoe show. But if they do a catagory for cheapest ass at the show. Well. Your cheap ass may produce a floater…
The fat 50. Very cool housing BTW, and we are referring to the engine, NOT Randy, Who is not 50………
Fat fifty motor couldn’t get it to run, couldn’t get anyone who would even work on it, so the decision was made to re power it with a clean 70 hp . That set me back $2k installed but glad i did it.
Thats not good
Looks clean
And now getting to it. The deeper inspection.
Vintage ShopVac.
Getting in there in the first class cabin
Spreading the Mulch.. Been there..
The Curtains are…wait for it…. curtains. Thankyou, try the veal, I will be here through Thursday.
Neat set up. LOVE the wheel.
Actually, very very sweet lines. That swoop and general feel is very nice. Like seriously nice.
A little rough around the edges… OH COME ON! Thats a good one. See, because it is. Really. This is gold here. pure comedy gold. Okay not 24 Kt gold mind you. Maybe 10 kt. Okay would you believe, some gold spray paint. Little Get Smart humor here.
You know this was a very nice little family boat. Go out on the lake and swim and just lally gag around. Start up the fat 50 and motor home
Newish Johnson and starting to clean up the sides
Getting there
Fire wood. can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. And finishes.
That’s one cool little pocket cruiser. The Floater Fleet is starting to come together.
The Michigan gang is having a meeting in frigid Port Huron today for some September “Boat the Blue” party planning!
Fat 50 looks totally workable… but other than condition, you always hear how the suck gas. The newer Johnson should be better on the fuel consumption and certainly push her nice. There is a market out there for the Fat 50 motors. And if for nothing else the complete set of cowl badges ($150 +/-) bring $$ on ebay, and the hand controls ($75-$100) and electric junction box with harness ($100-$150) have good value too. I’d say that between those three things, if salvaged, you got $325 -$450 worth of value that you could use to offset the boat. On top of that, parting out the motor would bring in additional dollars (Starter, Generator, Carb, Distributor, 5″ long shaft extension with driveshaft + housing + water tubes, etc.) There is some gold there to pick up. Just sayin.
Andy: Those motors are dime a dozen in NH. Nobody wants parts, nodody will work on them, and nobody wants to buy them. After 3 months of trying to sell parts, or the whole motor on 10 antique boat motor sites ,i managed to sell it for $175 to a guy for parts locally. Hey now i think about it, maybe i can get credit back for the $175 that i didnt spend.
Looking good Randy!
I’m thinking that part of this WoodyBoater Challenge is to bring the boat to Dora.
Is Capt. Grumpy really going to make the trip this year?
OK so I’m cixelsyd.
The story on the fat 50’s was they were in a hurry to get them into production for sales but they had overheating issues so they richen the fuel mixture to solve that problem
Both the Johnson and Evinrude fat fifties were styled by Brooks Stevens. Here is an early styling possibility for the Johnson Super Sea Horse 50 being presented by one of Brooks Stevens & Associates engineers.
Nice project Randy. She will be a fun boat. You gave us a nice break from the B milk. Keep us updated on your progress.
Love it Randy, I moved that to the auction for a customer.
Yah Gary , Pretty amusing boat.
Is that bilge finish Zolatone? Would be great to see that re-done as original.
That bilge paint is nothing but the best Behr enamel deck and patio paint
Welcome to the 17′ plywood Cuddy Cabin Club!
Yah, i had to buy it, the flybridge, folding back so it fit in the garage did it for me.