Banana boat round 2
07-08-2009 | 11:11 PM
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Banana boat round 2
In the process of doing it again!!! So trojan man aka chad stultz watch out this one might give the last one, I did a run for it money...!!!! ha ha just kidding chad!
It's a 1977 # sshhhh......
It came with a B.B w/ TRS.... and of YES the bottom was painted! which isn't a bad thing?? just gonna take me a weekend to strip/ gelcoat / w.sand buff etc...!
Anyways theres no rot, so this one will go alot faster for me going to smooth the decks like on my last one, comp. awlgrip paint job and alot of cleaning... have to find bolsters!!! back bench I can custom something!
Trailer nds a little TLC came with the boat from factory has Banana all over it!
!!!!! If anyone is going to be looking for an awsome turn key Banana let me know!!!!!
Thx
J.Perette
It's a 1977 # sshhhh......
It came with a B.B w/ TRS.... and of YES the bottom was painted! which isn't a bad thing?? just gonna take me a weekend to strip/ gelcoat / w.sand buff etc...!
Anyways theres no rot, so this one will go alot faster for me going to smooth the decks like on my last one, comp. awlgrip paint job and alot of cleaning... have to find bolsters!!! back bench I can custom something!
Trailer nds a little TLC came with the boat from factory has Banana all over it!
!!!!! If anyone is going to be looking for an awsome turn key Banana let me know!!!!!
Thx
J.Perette
07-09-2009 | 06:18 AM
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In the process of doing it again!!! So trojan man aka chad stultz watch out this one might give the last one, I did a run for it money...!!!! ha ha just kidding chad!
It's a 1977 # sshhhh......
It came with a B.B w/ TRS.... and of YES the bottom was painted! which isn't a bad thing?? just gonna take me a weekend to strip/ gelcoat / w.sand buff etc...!
Anyways theres no rot, so this one will go alot faster for me going to smooth the decks like on my last one, comp. awlgrip paint job and alot of cleaning... have to find bolsters!!! back bench I can custom something!
Trailer nds a little TLC came with the boat from factory has Banana all over it!
!!!!! If anyone is going to be looking for an awsome turn key Banana let me know!!!!!
Thx
J.Perette
It's a 1977 # sshhhh......
It came with a B.B w/ TRS.... and of YES the bottom was painted! which isn't a bad thing?? just gonna take me a weekend to strip/ gelcoat / w.sand buff etc...!
Anyways theres no rot, so this one will go alot faster for me going to smooth the decks like on my last one, comp. awlgrip paint job and alot of cleaning... have to find bolsters!!! back bench I can custom something!
Trailer nds a little TLC came with the boat from factory has Banana all over it!
!!!!! If anyone is going to be looking for an awsome turn key Banana let me know!!!!!
Thx
J.Perette
I built this boat for my good Friend Barry Newman. He was described by the Boston Globe as a "Bon Vivant". Drove a turbo Porsche and had as his second boat a 60 foot Chris Craft Roamer and a twin engne plane.
Barry always wanted to go in a real open ocean race, so I let him ride one year in the Freeport NY race. I told him...."All you have to do is start the stop watches in front of you when the race starts."
Race starts.......the run to the first checkpoint and it is Bill Elswick in Long Shot, me in Top Banana and Betty in KAAMA, we round the first mark, I look over and all the watches were still on zero....he was frozen with an adrenaline rush.....never let him forget it. He died at 45 with an aneurism. RIP
07-09-2009 | 05:32 PM
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In the process of doing it again!!! So trojan man aka chad stultz watch out this one might give the last one, I did a run for it money...!!!! ha ha just kidding chad!
It's a 1977 # sshhhh......
It came with a B.B w/ TRS.... and of YES the bottom was painted! which isn't a bad thing?? just gonna take me a weekend to strip/ gelcoat / w.sand buff etc...!
Anyways theres no rot, so this one will go alot faster for me going to smooth the decks like on my last one, comp. awlgrip paint job and alot of cleaning... have to find bolsters!!! back bench I can custom something!
Trailer nds a little TLC came with the boat from factory has Banana all over it!
!!!!! If anyone is going to be looking for an awsome turn key Banana let me know!!!!!
Thx
J.Perette
It's a 1977 # sshhhh......
It came with a B.B w/ TRS.... and of YES the bottom was painted! which isn't a bad thing?? just gonna take me a weekend to strip/ gelcoat / w.sand buff etc...!
Anyways theres no rot, so this one will go alot faster for me going to smooth the decks like on my last one, comp. awlgrip paint job and alot of cleaning... have to find bolsters!!! back bench I can custom something!
Trailer nds a little TLC came with the boat from factory has Banana all over it!
!!!!! If anyone is going to be looking for an awsome turn key Banana let me know!!!!!
Thx
J.Perette
Good luck with the new project. I hope yours does give mine a run for the money, call me if you need any info on where I got a lot of parts from. Oh and for my $.02, I have a few ideas on things that worked well on mine and didn't. I heard my engine run for the first time in person today and it sounds nastyyyy !!
good luck,
t-man ~ chad
07-29-2009 | 07:54 AM
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I built this boat for my good Friend Barry Newman. He was described by the Boston Globe as a "Bon Vivant". Drove a turbo Porsche and had as his second boat a 60 foot Chris Craft Roamer and a twin engne plane.
Barry always wanted to go in a real open ocean race, so I let him ride one year in the Freeport NY race. I told him...."All you have to do is start the stop watches in front of you when the race starts."
Race starts.......the run to the first checkpoint and it is Bill Elswick in Long Shot, me in Top Banana and Betty in KAAMA, we round the first mark, I look over and all the watches were still on zero....he was frozen with an adrenaline rush.....never let him forget it. He died at 45 with an aneurism. RIP
Barry always wanted to go in a real open ocean race, so I let him ride one year in the Freeport NY race. I told him...."All you have to do is start the stop watches in front of you when the race starts."
Race starts.......the run to the first checkpoint and it is Bill Elswick in Long Shot, me in Top Banana and Betty in KAAMA, we round the first mark, I look over and all the watches were still on zero....he was frozen with an adrenaline rush.....never let him forget it. He died at 45 with an aneurism. RIP
