24 for sale
 

Anyone know of this boat??
No pics in the ad.
Maybe one of you Euros want to check into it??
http://www.offshoreonlyclassifieds.c...o23361-en.html

Thanks Storm,

I Allready sended him a email.....ha ha ha ha


Mange

Ps. You can call us Swede's ha ha.... ds.

I was just trying to include all of you from the other side o'the pond. :D

Let us know what u find...

....I think you can call the other european guy's Swede´s as well....ha ha ha.

As soon as I see some more info regarding this 24 I'll share it with you!!


//Mange

pics are up.
I remember this boat.
Some updated pics would be nice.
Those pics are dated before i even bought my old boat! :eek:

Twin Turbo???

Geez - it's like looking at my own boat.
I took a pic of mine last weekend after I replaced the life-line, and put it up as wallpaper on my work computer.
I've been staring at it all week, and it's been driving me nuckin' phutz that the screw in the rub-rail isn't centered on the bow. Forgive me for being so anal, I used to be a custom trim carpenter, and it was always tiny little details like this that can make the difference. I know, nobody but me would pick it out, but hey, I will pick it out.

Then, looking at this boat, I see they must have started running the rail from the same spot every time.:D

Man that thing is cool as all getout! I love the "period correct" interior and old school jet-boat turbo set up!

Yeep, looks like Pepe and the guys was sober back in the end of the 70's when they lined up the rail's HA HA HA...
But these pics are 5 years old now. Any recent pics whould be nice. Love the old school paint/vinyl scheme.

My 1995 24 Pantera will hopefully leave Port Elisabet NJ for Sweden next week. Can't wait for it. Will be a great little offshorer cuz my 28 Arrow is a true trailerqueen HA HA HA

/Mange

Ps. how's your project coming out?? Looks sweet so far ds.

Anybody looking for a complete Original & still in really good shape 1979 cockpit interior out of a 24' I have it & would sell somebody a great deal !!

Sorry for the cheap plug...:D

Magne - I'm still plugging along a little at a time.
Hopefully some decent weather this weekend, and maybe I can update with some pics.

You dont want the screw directly in the front, as it is a stresspoint, but I would have run one on each side evenly spaced, just for looks:D

Thanks Rick:D
Honestly, I was wondering about that. And I've really been thinking about this - just show's how neurautic I may be to put so much thought into this.
I don't think it would actually be a stress point though, I would expect the stress to be dispersed before it would hit that high into the hull. And, a single screw through the hull/deck bond?? I don't see that causing any structural detriment.

Just the fact that it is in a vee there, How would you back it up with a washer and nut on the backside?? or even if it werent thru bolted, I would think it would want to tear out, since the material the thread is grabbing is in a vee. Mine are all thru bolted(at least all the ones I could get to, and iI have long skinny arms, so thats most of them), I offset those front ones like 3 inches, and did the best I could to get them evenly spaced on each side.

Everything in life has to be cost effective, when I built that boat was over 30 years ago, I used to build 2 boats per week.
I sold that boat new for $12,500.00 !
About the same it is being sold 30 years later. So stop being so picky, It is not a $200K 24'
pp.

awww

come on pepe, I was trying to get all technical with the screw placement(made sense to me:D), you just blame it on being cheap:party-smiley-004:

No I am not blaming it on anything! It's just that there are so many potentially better boat builders on this board that it gets old after a while.

pp.

I was juss jokin' Pepe:cool-smiley-011: You build an Awesome boat, as can be told by my 1981 still being around, and several other late 70's and '80s boats:D

Pepe, relax - I didn't mean it that way at all.
And I was sure there was a reason.
I was more just making a note that it is identical placement on both boats from that era.
I didn't mean any offense in any way.

I am relaxed! It bothers me when some of you criticize a $15K boat that on top of that is 30 years old and try to compare the detail to a $500K new boat.
It kind of gets ridiculuous! That is why a lot of people in the boat biz try to stay away from the board. I am just try to be the opposite, maybe I should try to also stay away.
No offense taken, I was just trying to explain the why of things.
pp.

Pepe, for the record, in Miami this year I was picking apart the 400K boats much worse. I couldn't believe the sloppy caulk work, and unfinished edges.
The screw placement is so minor, that if I hadn't been staring at my computer screen for a week I wouldn't have noticed it.
I love the boat, and yes it's still here and ready to rock in big water almost 30 years later - I think that is a testament to how they were built.
Building 2 boats a week, you must have had it down to a science. And the fact that the screw placement between these two is identical further states that point.
I know I'm too anal.
It also drives me nutz if a roll of toilet paper is put on backwards, or if the screws on a light switch coverplate aren't vertical.
So this is my own little mental problem:D

I think you build an incredible boat, and I'm proud to own one!

I like them horizontal:D

Good, I'm not the only one! I prefer rolling over the top! :cool-smiley-011:

That's acceptable - as long as they match.
The vertical, well, I just think it flows better with the lines of the switch itself:D

Of course!
That way you don't bang your hand into the wall when you reach for it:eureka:

I didn't know there was a right or wrong way for the TP until I was 16 and working at a Denny's and a woman informed me I had replaced the roll in the ladies room backwards.

Sorry this all turned into a Hi-Jack, my comment was really just poking fun at myself.

The boat looks to be in great shape.

I got those fancy sideways switches, throws guests WAYYYYYYY off, when they get up to take a pee in the middle of the night, and cant figure out the switch:D:angry-smiley-038::party-smiley-004:

Pepe, the problem is w/ these guys... we treat the boats like they are $200k! :D

That is definetely a problem! I try my best.
pp.

pp, i must say that you ARE getting better w/ age. ;)
1995 baby!!!

Damn, that's a good looking boat. :D:evilb::evilb:

Jeff, i took such good care of that boat.
I even let it sleep on a pillow. :D

Speak for yourself Rob! There's a reason Tim has my old 24 in a million pieces! :D

As the dirt track boys say... Elbows up and hammer down!

sean, you treat your wife better than your 28? lol

btw, my boat got treated to the best it could.

If I didn't, I wouldn't have a 28 for long! Ask Cattitude... :D

I treat that boat exactly like Pepe would! :cool-smiley-027:

That's a pretty fair assessment of where I meant to go with that.

Yeah there's a reason, by the time I get completely done with this (in a few years) I just might have that 200K into it:D - and have a smile on my face about it.

I don't imagine in 1980 that ANYONE in the boating industry was working on such small details as what I mentioned, but I don't remember, I was 9 yrs. old. That is something that has evolved into this industry. I don't think there is anything wrong with bringing some of those details into this old-school boat as I work on her.
The boat didn't NEED to be torn down, but she was showing almost 30 years of doing exactly what she was built to do. It's just cosmetics that I wanted to bring back.

There is a reason we hold these boats in such high regard, and there is a reason that those Damn Swede's are snatching up what little stock of them are available:D Notice, Magne was already on this one before the thread came up.

Oh, and Pepe - please keep posting, I always like reading your posts.

Well, we wouldn't want to know Sean as a wife-beater:D

These boats were built to run hard, and that is exactly the way they should be run:cool-smiley-011:

Let's not forget the Titanic,
it was guaranteed NOT to _ _ NK !

Does anybody has a couple of vowels for sale?

Like Mr. Harvey would say......
and now you know the rest of the story !
pp.

Of course, know your limitations.

OMG someone else is bothered by this stuff too.

A Pantera will outlast several sets of engines and drives, Mercruiser should be upping the ante here.

There seems to be a trend here.
So far just as many Pantera owners are as anal about things as I am.
Maybe that is why we all chose a Pantera.
Chris - I spent my entire evening tonight fabricating new inner transom exhaust rings.
As you know, they are barely visible - none the less, I think they came out pretty well.
Here's old, new, and the flat sheet stock I started with.
Again, probably the wrong place to post this, but we're all family down here, right??

"OMG"? More like "OCD"! You guys are nuts! :D Which way is "backwards" on the toilet paper roll? I'm still laughing about this thread. You guys are hilarious!