I am telling you its the shark teeth that make um fast!

Shark of the nation???

Beautiful Checkmate!

https://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/b...500951967.html

It is a nice Checkmate

I never noticed how much freeboard there is in those things. Look how low that motor sits relative to the cap!

Yep.

They don’t get much love but, very well-built boat, great bang for the money, and if you actually use your performance boat for a boat as in a weekender boat, It quickly rises up the list of candidates.

I don’t know how to post a link from marketplace so I took some screenshots of a Hatteras that caught my attention……


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I can smell those pictures.

I would imagine you have to sleep with a life jacket on,on that thing

How sad is that.

Hate seeing that life for a grand old lady like that!

The lowlifes down there, living on them.
One turd floater rain away from bilge pumps shutting off after killing batteries and sinks in the 3’ of water they anchor it in and rots to pieces!

See it down there after every storm.

Then Fla won’t let you move them for fear of damaging the bottom of the coves they’re all anchored in!

Kinda like the old Caddies going through owners until they end up a hoopty in the hood.

Does the $11,000 include the BBQ/Cooking floating platform tied up on the side?

(I bet someone could get the marina and the harbor mates to chip in $ to get that eyesore out of their anchorage!!!!)

Ok, that turd is anchored in some of the nicest blue water in Florida! So derelict boats have a right to anchor inside the Palm Beach Inlet and as long as they aren't leaking anything they can stay. The water regularly fails quality tests, nobody is pumping out legally but literally using a bucket and dumping it overboard after dark. Sylvester Stallone just bought a 35mm mansion within view of this collection of vessels. Google Peanut Island and on the north side you will see a bunch of these "crafts"

https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...?ex=2929129956
This is less than 1/2 mile from that boat, 80mm asking price.

Florida wants them gone but doesn't have the funding to remove them/crush them. They only want qualified salvage operators doing the work (with insurance) in case something goes wrong during the job.
https://myfwc.com/boating/grants-pro...relict-vessel/
Budget used to be 1mm a year.

Been following it for decades.

The EPA FPW (?) puts insane regulations on the salvors.


Sold a Bobcat to one while I was living down there.

They don’t want the salvers to damage the seabottom around the wreck but they’re not smart enough to see by leaving it there it just implodes on itself and it’s there forever!

See it happen over and over and over again..

Up around Sebastian where we lived there would be a dozen of them sink between there in Melbourne every time after turd floater rain.

If you went in while they were freshly sunk you could float them and tow them to mainland for scrapping.

But they leave them there until the floors, cabin walls, transoms, rot apart and they put straps on them and that cuts them in pieces.

Same in the Keys.

They need to arrest the slime balls that live on them and then abandon them when they sink.


Theyre are the ones damaging the aquatic life not the boat.

It's nothing more than a fun game of border patrol. Here's how it works.

citizen complaints about derilect boats adds up, the complaints get forwarded from city hall to the chief of police.


chief forwards it to the district commanders and says don't make me look bad to the mayer.

district commanders hand it down to the captains Lt's and srgnt's all of whom continue the don't make me look bad but get it done speech and it ends up in the boys hands who in the old days knew how to have some laughs on their shift.


water cops play a fun game of border control towing derelict boats up or down the icw to the next city during the night while trying not to wake up the residents of said boat.

Nice Formula for an entry level, affordable boat.


https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/bp...498667343.html

Got that there thru hall exhaust. I try to keep my exhaust out of the hallways, personally... CO poisoning and all.

A clean old Scorpion.

In shrink wrap last 24 yrs!

https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/bo...495571723.html

Wonder if the transit is solid?

It’s the day for clean old classics!

https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/bo...500859555.html

Nice (looking) Powerquest!

https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/bo...498145684.html

And a clean ass 30’ Baja!

https://sandusky.craigslist.org/bod/...503099925.html

These boats cost far less than my refit job. 🤷‍♂️

419 Formula
 

Doubt they built many of these.

Very cool pc.

https://sandusky.craigslist.org/boa/...508594169.html

That's a big b!tch.

I think Mild Thunder that used to be on here had one. He didn't have many nice things to say about it.

Had a buddy that had one. It was a lot of boat!

One look at the engine compartment pixs gave me the shakes!

I had the same boat years ago. Worst ride ever unless you were on flat water !

Formula performance boats no more.
 

Never been on one, but 41 feet, narrow 8'3" beam, and 24 degrees at the transom. They made it from 1991-1996, and then stepped the hull to be their F-419 FAS3TECH from 1997-2001. That's a lot of years of production. What makes the hull run poorly? Was the long, narrow hull not able to carry the bow? The F-353 is a sectioned and blocked F-419, and they sold many of those for years, I think 2017 was the last year. 2019 was the last year for Formula FAS3TECH. The F-353 is the hull chosen by Formula owners who want into the triple digits. I guess twin 700 hp (with boxes), and shorties, is what it takes. I'd be happy with a good ol' Formula 302 and an enthusiastic crew.

26 Panga Center Console with an inboard diesel! These have a cult following but I've only seen OB's

https://miami.craigslist.org/pbc/boa...500810603.html

Transom artwork is a little over the top though

Alpha drive!

He had the predecessor. The 402

See above

Used to see these in Fla from time to time.

I like them a lot.

This needs a bracket and a pair of OBs.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Seahawk-31-...-127632-2357-0

Check this old girl…..
Bit of a time capsule, probably deserves its own thread, away from some of the fuglies on Craigslist. 🙂

https://www.powerboatlistings.com/photographs/73319



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RR

There is a nice 75 Cigarette 28ss for sale in Chesterfield, MI for the Cigarette enthusiasts. I unfortunately can't post the url, or photo from Craigslist.

I planned on using it on Lake St. Clair but things changed and i am moving to Florida but I'm not going to put it into the ocean

47 yr old fiberglass boat, built in Florida, run brand new in Florida and now the ocean is bad?

I understand the purpose, but the complicated mess of those mufflers and the actuators and lines for them sure do ruin the transom of that boat.