Just thought I would share.
I'd been looking for a 36'+ project hull for a few years now. A friend found a 37' project hull in Virginia on Wed Juy 6th. We went down to pick it up on the 8th and back to MI by the 9th. From what I have read in the AT section some people know the history on this boat. I only know what I have read and what the sellers told me. (sellers were great guys)

The hull was minus power, drives, exhaust, fuel system, motor mounts and some other incidentals. I have had it out and have about 35 mins on it so far on a river. The 11 year old 110 gallons of gas had varnished pretty hard and kept plugging fuel filters. I have since drained and tried to vacuum the tanks. They seem to be pretty clean now. Tomorrow will be a little prop testing. The boat would not get on plane with my 29' Spinelli 4 blades. I borrowed a set of bravo 28's and 30's. They planed well. I have some 26's to try tomorrow.

Here are a few pics.

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On the water. Finally!

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My Scarab Panthers power...

What is the power exactly?

My 600HP 469's detuned to ~550 for blower application down the road. They pushed my old TRS Scarab Panther into the 80's.

I wondered who snatched it up. It was a good deal if you had a donor boat.

Yeah, I was wishing I had a full donor boat. All I could use out of my TRS Scarab was the power. Hindsight, I'm glad I didn't have to gut the Scarab because now I found some 502 efi's to repower the Scarab. So I'll put that back together to maybe sell. I really like my Scarab.

There is some work that needs attention on the boat. The transom is going to need replacing. I'm shocked at how rotted it is around the exhaust openings for only being on the water 5 yrs.

Glad to see it back on the water! I was considering it but i didn't have twin power to put back in.

Nice work! That was a big project, and you made short order of it.

Wow! This boat is very impressive! Today Jim Valako and I took it out for it's maiden Lake Michigan voyage, 3-4's. What a gentle ride at 50 mph.
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I'm assuming this is a relatively efficient hull for a straight bottom? It ran great and my power plants did not seem to labor one bit. It seemed to pull just as hard as my 30' Scarab. I'm also assuming the drive height, no transmission and 14 years newer might help. Anyone have an Idea what this boat weighs? It's minus it's generator and I have no Idea if it has/had AC. All the switches and duct work is there, but that might be in all of them.

Thanks. If I had it to do over again I would have bought a couple junk blocks and fabbed everything up before pulling the power out of my Scarab. I was fortunate that Mike still had the original motor mounts for the boat. I purchased them and he shipped them up to me quickly. Finding headers, tails, bell housings, couplers, drives and the other stuff was time consuming. I spent 4 hours for 1 1/2 months after work at my shop working on it. And the majority of my weekends.