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Saw one of the coolest Howards ever in parker last weekend

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Saw this boat at foxes on Saturday. Thing looked sweet. My friend new the owner and he sent me a couple pics because I didnt have my phone. Said it was a 21' with a marathon botom and a social deck I believe.
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yea, this is @oldrigger 's buddy

Ya, my wife actually went to high school with Jimmy and was best friends with his wife back then too.

The boat is awesome. He ALWAYS does nice work. He's restoring my neighbors '55 Chevy two door wagon right now.
 
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Just noticed that first pic is at our dock on the strip. You can just see my rope in the bottom of the pic. Almost made the cut. lol

These molds were still at Howard in the 90s when I was rigging there. I think they ended up in the dump.
 
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Is this a 20' or a 21'? It looks exactly like Howard's old 20.
 

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20, it was Howard's GN boat...the molds were I mean, not this particular boat. Never seen one with the hatch before either.
 
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I think I've seen two over the years with a hatch. A white one and a multicolored boat. Perfect family ski boat! 👍
 

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Jimmy found that one rotting in a yard. New stringers and everything from there up. Love that boat.
 

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I’m a huge fan of these old boats with a hatch!

I think they look so clean - I realize it does t work for big motors and blowers but Ive always wanted to build one with a low profile fuel injected motor that fits under a hatch...

And might as well make it a wood deck also !
 

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Is this a 20' or a 21'? It looks exactly like Howard's old 20.
That's what I wa thinking. Boatpoors dad had one of on Arrowhead. Holman Moody 427. Was a lot of those up there .
 

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I think I remember that yellow Howard running with the Arrowhead Ski Club back in the 70’s.
 

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I think I remember that yellow Howard running with the Arrowhead Ski Club back in the 70’s.

there were several Arrowhead stickers on the hull when Jimmy and I went to look at it.
 
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I’m a huge fan of these old boats with a hatch!

I think they look so clean - I realize it does t work for big motors and blowers but Ive always wanted to build one with a low profile fuel injected motor that fits under a hatch...

And might as well make it a wood deck also !

He's talking about putting a set of old school injectors on the BBC at some point.
 
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I’m a huge fan of these old boats with a hatch!

I think they look so clean - I realize it does t work for big motors and blowers but Ive always wanted to build one with a low profile fuel injected motor that fits under a hatch...

And might as well make it a wood deck also !

I like the look as well. Would work great for a set of turbos. Kind of a stealth sleeper look.
 

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Funny this comes up, the boat captured my attention also. Really really nice boat. Saw it getting put back on trailer at Foxes. [emoji106][emoji106]

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Dayum!


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Jimmy's talking about putting a set of old school injectors on the BBC at some point.

Somebody is making a set of injectors that looks like Webber carbs - keep that old school look!
 

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The baby moons look cool. I had them on my 1st boat trailer they would always fill with water and fall off when taking the boat out of the water. I learned to pull out really slow to keep them on.
 

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That is cool looking boat right there. The line are so clean...
 
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