TOPIC: Just Awesome Boat Pictures

All Dunn II wrote:

20 years ago it became my bar top along with half of the bow hanging on the wall behind it. Bill

That's Cool! I have a file called boating around the house

Merc Kat
from Sports Illistrated
MERCURY CATAMARAN
Perhaps the most exciting and significant of the new designs is the Mercury catamaran, conceived by Carl Kiekhaefer, head of the company that makes Mercury outboard motors. "For years we've been testing boats and offering our ideas to the builders," said Kiekhaefer, whose company maintains a permanent testing ground in Sarasota, Fla., where any boatbuilder can have his new models wrung out by Mercury's test drivers. The more he saw conventional hulls pounding along past his testing area, the more certain Kiekhaefer became that catamarans might be the answer. And when a group of catamaran runabouts (see page 35) virtually swept the rugged Mississippi marathon, Kiekhaefer was convinced. He went to a catamaran expert named Warren Gale, who has built some 3,000 cats in the past nine years, and outlined his ideas for a family-size outboard cat with comfortable cruising accommodations and a sporty, open steering cockpit up forward. Gale and his engineers went to work and developed the finished product. The cat is 26 feet 8 inches long and has a generous 9-foot beam. Her main feature, of course, is the twin-hull design, which presents sharp, narrow forward sections that can slice through the swells rather than banging into them like the broad underside of a conventional hull planing at high speed. Rushed to completion for its debut at the New York show, the cat has not yet been given any serious testing under rough water conditions, but both Gale and Kiekhaefer are confident she will give a smooth ride even at her designed top speed of 30 mph.

25' Yukon Delta....House Cat


1969 40' Glastron Houseboat


Sea Camper


Land N Sea


???


Recycled



Tooned



Dreamin'
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spongebob takes his driving test!!!!!

An Aristocraft Nineteen

Herter's El Dorado Rocket

Car Aqua

Chrysler

A '61 G3 I should have kept..

A Johnson Deluxe I tried to buy but never could get the owner to sell.. One of those deals where it was sitting with the engine exposed and filling up with water...

A very rough '61 Redfish sitting down the road from me....

A Larson Thunderhawk we picked up in WI. Pic taken at Funk's Grove on RT 66 in IL..

A freebie Sea Fury i aquired from John Brogdon in Dallas...

Some Ancarrow boats

Some Amfibs
Looks like this one saw a lot of duty.
Anheuser Busch Ginger Ale

Bud





1924 Fusetti


Unknown



Corvair Phibian


1970 Evinrude Lakester, a Brooks Stevens design.

Advertized as a 1956 Flats fisher





1962 Breuil




1961 Boston Whaler Danbury Mint

Nomad




Thansadet Aquatic Caravan

The famous Switser Wing

Then made by Dutchman Enterprize with a re-designed bow.


Some DeSilva Wings





One-Off center helm wing

Get-R-Dun

Oooops!

Oooops II

You gotta ask yourself,,,how the heck did some of those happen??

1962 Luger Sierra Boat Kit

Stubby. First post. Welcome. What powers that Luger?
Here is that Imp Apache with the Speedifour that I sold last summer. This couple loves it.
And a picture of a picture.

Tis the season

one of the boats our shop painted

Aero Cat

1960 American Mark Catamarine 16'

1960 Anthony Jet-Cat 16'


A new cat but I think cool, commissioned by Audi, Dubai race boat company. 1-V10 diesel or 2 regular V-8s bio diesel. Boat is 8.8 meters ,100-110 MPH

1958 Bearcat 16'

1958 Bearcat 18'

1959 Bee-Line 13'

Bell Cat Cabin De Luxe 18' Austraila

Bell Cat Cheetah 18' Austraila

Bell Cat Jaguar 15' Austraila

Bell Cat Panther 13' Austraila

powercatboat.com/17.jpg
I had never noticed the motors in the Aussie brochure
had been cut/pasted with a Australian motor..
On both the Cheetah and Jaguar..
Way before photoshop !!
Amazing..
Danny Leger

CAT*FIN*k wrote:

Bell Cat Cabin De Luxe 18' Austraila

Bell Cat Cheetah 18' Austraila

Bell Cat Jaguar 15' Austraila

Bell Cat Panther 13' Austraila

powercat wrote:

powercatboat.com/17.jpg
I had never noticed the motors in the Aussie brochure
had been cut/pasted with a Australian motor..
On both the Cheetah and Jaguar..
Way before photoshop !!
Amazing..
Danny Leger

I never noticed either, good catch! I tend to look more at the hull designs.
Canton Mfg. Cloud Series 1959 Glass Cloud 14'

Carri-Craft

Catamaran Fiberglass Boats

Craig Marine 1960 Craig 16'

Custom Craft Some may not be a true cat but that's how they were marketed.
Aqua Ray 15' 1964

Aqua Ray 16' 1964

Delta Ray 17'-F, 4 point cat, half hardtop 1964

Delta Ray 18', IO, 5 point cat 1964

Devil Ray 14', 3 point cat 1964

Manta Ray 15' 4 point cat 1962

Master Devil Ray 17', 3 point cat 1964

Master Devil Ray 18', 3 point airlift hull 1964

Speed Ray 15 1964

Some more of my only "Kat".

OMG...CATS CATS EVERYWHERE. still have yet to find a cc cat hardtop owner. ron

At a local Vets meeting place. Gravel colored blue.

Here's a couple of vets, my buddies Mosquito and tru,Vietnamese patrol boat,1969 101st abn,Tiger Force.

Cat's in 'Nam

Had to do it.
1968 MTZ

1960 Dalmark Cruisette 18'


Pre 1960 Delaney I believe, single cove on side.

Post 1960 Delaney I believe, double cove on side.


Have not found a pic of any of the 3 Duo Cats by Harris MFG

Hydro Car Russian