Hello All-

So this is a rather long story but it has a happy ending. A few years ago my wife and I purchased a 1989 24 Aronow cat from a friend. The idea was to rig it with a diesel and run it around Cape Coral. So we removed the 280's on the boat and rigged it with the single diesel outboard. the boat was ready for its sea trial. With all the weight of the diesel we could not get the boat to plane. We fought with it for a few months before we took the power off and put it on a deck boat that runs great.

Now, we had a bare hull. we tried to sell the hull for about 6 months. We had a few people try and buy it but always canceled at the last minute and left us waiting. We got sick of dealing with tire kickers so we took it off the market. At the same time my wife starting think about getting a boat for her to run around with her sister and nephew. We discussed fishing boats, jet boats, ect but we always kept looking over at the Aronow and thinking it would be a cool project.

After a few weeks of kicking it around we decided to start the project. What she wanted was a boat easy to drive, enough room for family, loud stereo, and had too look cool and different. She really liked the idea of a California style deck boat but with outboard power.

So after a year of building the boat, my wife and I finally finished her boat that we have officially named "Half Speed". The name half speed came about when I asked her how fast she wanted the boat to run, Her reply was "half as fast as the Doug Wright".

We did alot of work to the boat:
Made a walk thru to the front
Large Front deck area
Stairs in the back to step up to the rear deck
Sun pads to lounge in the front
Rigged with a 225 Opti
LED's everywhere
Large Stereo (Still in progress)
Custom Wrap by Kinetic Animation


We would like to thank Ryan Beckley of Kinetic Animation for helping us with this project. His team did a great job designing/ installing the wrap and I would recommend him to anyone.


The link below has some before, during and After pictures of the boat.

http://s1369.photobucket.com/user/Ma...ild%20Pictures


Thanks for reading
Don and Amanda

Beautifull boat and some sweet work!!!!!! That was a major undertaking!

Very nice Don. I would have expected nothing less from you two after the DW refresh. I was telling a friend about the diesel outboard and never knew how it worked out.

looks awesome

Very Cool. Nice to see an old classic brought back to life.

Whats its speed?