Mid 1980's Suzuki 75 hp outboards

[bigeasy1]

Darn Bones,That's one nice looking tin boat,and a Lonestar no less.I owned several Aluminum boats and restored a couple.We bought a couple early 70's 18' Starcraft Holidays,and restored them.
New transoms, decks, paint,etc,and turned them into nice trolling rigs for the bigger salmom and lake trout lakes in New England.
Lonestars were real common up my way back in the late 60's to early 70's,but I never saw one converted so beautifully into a flats boat as yours.Actually I never saw one converted into a flats boat at all.You did a beautiful job.

Here's few pics of the 18' Starcraft Holiday I did over. It was originally a single motor cutout transom but we re-fabricated it into a wide open transom capable of running twin outboards.Bought a couple sheets of 5052 marine aluminum,made some cardboard patterns and got busy forming them in a brake.
The twin 20hp rudes seem strange to most,but the reservoir we used to fish had a 20hp limit,but we also fished big lakes like Champlain where we needed speed so the twin 20's would get me to about 28-32 mph when we fished them.









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