73mandella
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I'm starting a build thread for my father-in-law (Lou); he doesn't own a computer. You may have seen him when I posted a picture on the site of him skiing at age 85 (second photo). A brief history is that Lou start in the mid 50's when he and friends built a 14-foot ski boat with a 35hp pull-start Mercury. He said he thought he was living grand when he was able to afford 45hp electric start outboard.
Lou finally moved to an inboard flat bottom boat when he bought his 1963 Mandella (first photo). That boat was sold in the 1970's, but is still in the family today (Hot Boat of the Month). He was boatless until last year when he bought an Eliminator Sprint, which is the topic of the boat build. Like usual, the hull sat for about one year before we started working on it. I don't have any pictures of the boat on the trailer, but have a few when we flipped it over the other day to do some work on the bottom.
More to come.
Lou finally moved to an inboard flat bottom boat when he bought his 1963 Mandella (first photo). That boat was sold in the 1970's, but is still in the family today (Hot Boat of the Month). He was boatless until last year when he bought an Eliminator Sprint, which is the topic of the boat build. Like usual, the hull sat for about one year before we started working on it. I don't have any pictures of the boat on the trailer, but have a few when we flipped it over the other day to do some work on the bottom.
More to come.