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Originally Posted by benjamin
Terry, I was just reading through this entire thread yesterday and got to page five and seen your sawzawd bowrider. Couldnt stop thinking about it. Came back here this morning and screenshot it. I think I read somewhere that you don't think its as pretty as most of the boats on here... its my new favorite. I think the splash guard, flat wheel position on the console, and the old sea craft script on the stern makes it. And the performance from the 90 ETEC is pretty sweet too. Is there a thread where I can read more about what you did to it?
I was asking my girl about what she thought of some of the seacrafts on craigslist and she basically said, "why do you like all these old boats?" So I let her see yours and I said, "because they can look like this." And she said, "oooooh, I like that one!"
Ill be free diving in homosassa when gags open up. Hope to get good performance in pounds per gallon like that too.
Tight lines.
Ben
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Ben, You don't want to look too close at that thing. It's got rust streaks running down the transom, a non-skid dash and the electronics box is an old seat back. It's rough. A 1967 is so old it doesn't even have the little reverse on the bow edge that the fancy "cutt'in edge" Potter boats like Don V has. It's a dang SeaCraft Panga, stripped down to the bare essentials but it does everything I need it to do and I don't have to fuss with it much. In the Design World the term is "Form Follows Function". I don't have a thread but there is a album on my member page with some more pictures of the old dawg.
Let's go scouting before July 1 so we know where to point when the season opens. I understand the red tide is still causing havoc in the panhandle area - if it "pushes" south it's going to run the Gags ahead of it and kill everything else. Last summer we caught them bunched up on the Meisner Crane and it was "shoot out at the OK corral" - we got our 6 and were pointed east by 10:30 to snag some hogs in 25'. Keep yout fingers, toes and eyes crossed that it leaves us alone this year.
I keep inviting Don V., Skiblet, Trader Ter, G FS, Denny, Snookerd , and No Bones to come on and go Scalloping or Diving up there with Kmoose and I but they are dead beats always polishing their bow rails or something equally as important, the weenies!