Want To Win Best Of Show, In The Evinrude Category?
Very cool bow profile
Nice interior
The Evinrude soft top is very cool
Clear plastic windows
Evinrude Trailer… Evinrude Zipper?
Today on Facebook marketplace is what could be a big winner. And possibly a chicken dinner. Or not. We are in that odd time slot of the classic boat time line that kinda is an unknown. Yes, the boat is cool, and yes it has Evinrude all over the place…including the trailer. But it also has an outdrive. Which can scare some folks. Or not. Either way, for $3500 asking, it sure could be a fun summer run.
Sorry Matt, I’m not in your camp on this one!
While I don’t think I’ll ever own one, I always find this era of Evinrude branded boat to be an excellent example of wholistic design. The designer touched everything on these boats, and the overall design is unique, fresh, and iconically Evinrude. Just look at those two angled supports for the console. Totally pragmatically unnecessary, but definitely a well thought out part of the design. I dig it, and if I had my other top 5 boats already in my boat house, this would be a fun kitschy addition.
Very cool! Lots of practical features were designed into these boats. Not afraid of outdrives in general, but this one is scary. Looks like nothing keeping the sea out, but a rubber donut filling the sizable gap between the drive & the fiberglass!
My experiences riding in a cathedral hull boat pounding over every wave and wake reminds me of why I would steer clear of this one. Cool design features though.
No thanks. If I were going to buy another plastic boat, it would be a prettier one.
I had an OMC outdrive that had a single shift/speed lever which this one appears to have. I was told that it had electric shift. If it wasn’t running perfect, when it was shifted into gear it would first bang into gear and then kill. It took perfect timing of lowering the idle speed little side lever, while shifting. Royal pain in the ass.
My Grandpa had a very similar boat that he took to Canada. Little me around 1968 used to hide from my brother under the front in knee high water. They lived in Trenton, MI. Doubtful it would be the same boat but it has my attention. I will have to look into this further.
contacted the owner. unfortunately not.
This is super-cool. Maybe not the best user-boat on today’s very busy and rough waterways, but no one else would pull up in one at the boat show. Hope she finds a good home.
I remember as a kid seeing these boats a lot idling down the Grande Pointe Cut at Harsen’s Island at my Grampa’s place(now Art’s) in the early to mid 70’s. Always liked the design and it was different to others of that era.
I cannot believe how clear those side and back curtains are? Are those replaceable? Has anyone had a shop make those? I’ve seen canvas side and back curtains with clear inserts, but never completely clear side or back curtain curtains. There’s no telling what you’ll find in Michigan with all that water.
They are replaceable and those definitely have been replaced.
These boats should look good and are iconic. The hull was designed by Richard C. Cole, inventor of the cathedral hull back around 1958. as used on Thunderbird boats. He designed a number of early boats for them beginning in 1954. His final cathedral hull design was the Airslot for Wellcraft. I interviewed him a number of times for various articles in Boating World back in the 90’s. He was a hoot to talk to, didn’t pull any punches when talking of the marine industry. The deck design went to Brooks Stevens, industrial designer, who did all of the design work for Evinrude since 1935. Also, Johnson since 1936. I’ve seen a number of his design studies for different boats during this period. Neither were involved in the design of the 1962 OMC-17, quite a different animal, done completely in-house at OMC.