The boat was a 89 47 acache. it was dropped/damaged. McManus built a new hull, and it ended up a 98 McManus. hence change in vin and yr. The deck was cut and cabin liner pulled out to stick build a new cabin and get rid of ribs, also 3/4 ply core deck core. (flat deck w balsa core). Boat was running when purchased trip 525 on #3. If I remember right it was at jay, castaline marine. there was not a 47 deck, they just added in the cockpit or in front of dash based on what u wanted. Boat at one time was amazing real teak floor, varnished area built in back of bolsters for glasses, varnished dash panels.... reminded me of old grey poupon ad. Saber marine has the 41 and 47 molds along w the 41 deck would love to c it up and running again

thanks for the reply,to you know about the Hull construction?

It is a glass hull. All of the Komanche hulls were glass from what I understand.

teach me on glass hull.. are'nt they all ''glass hull'' ? or what you mean is there is not core like balsa in the hull bottom? if no core, how much thick a glass hull needs to be to witstand some rough water?

The apache boats are Kevlar, no? The Kommanche boats were fiberglass.

I guess i should have made my statement into a question regarding the nom apache named boats.

I saw some pics of yours redone. It looks great. Where do you live? I talked to Mark about the Octavian last year in depth, great guy, spent a bunch of time discussing the history of apache/commanche and the boat.