Hot Boat and Hot Rod Show at Pirates 2021!

[RiverDave]

We will have a video up of the show either late this week or early next week. Here are the pics I took while walking around the show!

This is the cleanest Spectra 20 I have ever seen. The gel looks like it came off the showroom today. Interesting it has a fixed cav plate on a 20. If the trailer was cleaned up a little this thing would be my pick of the show.

 

[RiverDave]

This dually was BAD ASS! I was kinda surprised when I walked around the back and saw the rdp sticker.

 

[RiverDave]

This thing would make anyone feel young again.. Good lord. The answer to how much hp is too much has finally been answered. In a gull wing this thing has to be stupid fast.

I loved the fiberglass cover behind the seats.

 

[RiverDave]

Another pretty bad ass dually. I’m not into the patina look.. and this one had it, but to some this is the cats pajamas.

If I had a drag flat in the garage this is about what it would look like. Everything about this boat reminds me of my youth.

 

[RiverDave]

I am in love

 

[RiverDave]

The kids loved this Hydro.

 

[RiverDave]

 

[RiverDave]

This is K5 the boat that crashed in the AM. You can see it was a slow speed roll over as the boat for the most part is unscathed. From talking to the guys in the tent when it flipped over his chute got tangled up in the steering column and you can see a little evidence of a stress crack.

From what everyone was saying at the show Scott is banged up but going to be ok.

 

[RiverDave]

Some of the other boats in Scott Steele’s display.

 

[RiverDave]

 

[RiverDave]

Ridiculously clean Brummett. This is “best of show” if I was a judge.

I don’t know how you could beat it..

 

[RiverDave]

 

[RiverDave]

The kids were fascinated by this boat.. they kept asking if they would sit backwards by the motor.. lol.

we talked about it for quite awhile, and I got to share with them a pretty cool story about their grandfather.

My old man had a shovel nose hydro and way back then you either had thru transom or zoomies. He decided he wanted over the transom exhaust so he designed them, went and had the tooling made and made them. He ended up selling that tooling off to nicson. So they got a kick out of grandpa having some affect on the boating industry with regard to being the first with over the transom exhaust. The original exhausts came together towards the center of the boat if I remember right. I’d have to go drag the pics out of my moms house.

While it was impressive to them I had to tell them it was probably the smallest contribution he made in his life compared to all the other stuff he did. He didn’t even tell me about it until I was in my mid 20’s and happened to run across pictures of the tooling.

 

[Crazyhippy]

What is this? Pic cropped from Kids Favorite Hydro, parked directly behind it...

 

[RiverDave]

Best paint

 

[RiverDave]

What is this? Pic cropped from Kids Favorite Hydro, parked directly behind it...

My buddy Tom restored that for his wife. I had never seen one before either.. it’s a 2 seat mini with a 700cc wet bike motor in it.
I can get more pics and details if ya want.

 

[Tank]

Bad ass. Thanks for the pics Dave.

 

[Crazyhippy]

My buddy Tom restored that for his wife. I had never seen one before either.. it’s a 2 seat mini with a 700cc wet bike motor in it.
I can get more pics and details if ya want.

If you have them, great!

Looks like a great show. Nice mix between trailer queens that spend their lives getting rubbed with a diaper, and boats that get used properly (And a few which happen to be both!).

 

[warpt71]

If anyone has good pics of "Dark Star II" Id love to see them. I can share some history of the boat as well

 

[coolchange]

Hobbit was best of show. Hell you could look at just the trailer for 20 minutes.
That black and lace Hondo was excellent and most people didn’t really notice it. Best paint was that green clown jet boat.
Most people barely notice the black 50 Chevy on the entrance road. Very subtle but flawless.

 

[RiverDave]

This is a 21 Brummett.. very few were built, but you can see the attention to detail on this boat is ridiculous. Doesn’t matter when they are built if you build them like this they are timeless!!

This boat is for sale FYI and Paul from Outdrive1 has it listed.

 

[RiverDave]

Hobbit was best of show. Hell you could look at just the trailer for 20 minutes.
That black and lace Hondo was excellent and most people didn’t really notice it. Best paint was that green clown jet boat.
Most people barely notice the black 50 Chevy on the entrance road. Very subtle but flawless.

I didn’t like that clown boat at all.. not saying the quality wasn’t there but that is way outside of my flavor.. lol. Different strokes for different folks

 

[RiverDave]

This is about as clean as it gets!! Everything about this boat was sick including the reg numbers

 

[coolchange]

I didn’t like that clown boat at all.. not saying the quality wasn’t there but that is way outside of my flavor.. lol. Different strokes for different folks

I agree. The 50 Chevy was right next to that 48? Green Ford you liked. Most didn’t notice that either.

 

[RiverDave]

My buddy Tom brought down the infamous Tommy Bahama boat! I need to redo the rdp on the back of it to match the Tommy Bahama logo better in color. This boat has a ton of history

 

[RiverDave]

I agree. The 50 Chevy was right next to that 48? Green Ford you liked. Most didn’t notice that either.

There was a candy apple red truck on the way in that caught my attention. I didn’t get everything on the phone, we were shooting a lot of video

 

[RiverDave]

Half Moon is always a favorite

 

[RiverDave]

Goblin is also a crowd favorite

 

[RiverDave]

Perfect family boat . I don’t know if @MAXIMUS still has his or not but it would be interesting to see who comes out on top between those 2

 

[RiverDave]

Beautiful flat.. not sure how much power he’s making with those manifolds but I’m sure it’s more than enough to scare the shit out of any passenger.

 

[RiverDave]

My buddy Tom with the 44 MTI above is absolutely fascinated with this Steven’s. He wants to buy it.

 

[RiverDave]

This is the hero of the day.. He’s the one that pulled Scott out of the water. His boat is called a “FRO?” Said it’s one of three ever made and the only one on the water. I personally have never heard of it but it looked like it ran ok after he put it in the water.

 

[RiverDave]

Kids hanging out on the MTI after they laid it flat.

 

[RiverDave]

Last two pics of the show!

 

[oldschool]

We were there Friday afternoon and again Saturday and man there was some nice hardware. That Hobbit boat is so over the top nice it would make me nervous to allow people around it. Seemed like EVERY piece on that boat was custom and shiny. Everything under the Steele canopy was badass. Hope that Scott heals quickly.

 

[RiverDave]

We were there Friday afternoon and again Saturday and man there was some nice hardware. That Hobbit boat is so over the top nice it would make me nervous to allow people around it. Seemed like EVERY piece on that boat was custom and shiny. Everything under the Steele canopy was badass. Hope that Scott heals quickly.

I gotta wonder if I missed the Hobbit somewhere.. any pics?

 

[BigRedBryan]

This thing would make anyone feel young again.. Good lord. The answer to how much hp is too much has finally been answered. In a gull wing this thing has to be stupid fast. View attachment 1053574 I loved the fiberglass cover behind the seats. View attachment 1053575 View attachment 1053576 View attachment 1053577 View attachment 1053578 View attachment 1053579

Thank you for the kind words.

 

[oldschool]

Thank you for the kind words.

I’d have to agree with RD, your boat is unreal. Definitely one of the baddest ones at the show.

 

[BigRedBryan]

I’d have to agree with RD, your boat is unreal. Definitely one of the baddest ones at the show.

Much appreciated, thank you.

 

[oldschool]

It’s the boat in the first picture. The New York GN was out there running hard.








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[oldschool]

Hobbit

 

[n2otoofast4u]

This thing would make anyone feel young again.. Good lord. The answer to how much hp is too much has finally been answered. In a gull wing this thing has to be stupid fast. View attachment 1053574 I loved the fiberglass cover behind the seats. View attachment 1053575 View attachment 1053576 View attachment 1053577 View attachment 1053578 View attachment 1053579

This is @BigRedBryan boat..... It is fkn rad!

 

[mandella1day]

The mandella was built by Eddie’s inboard marine in tucson, he hit it out of the park on that build!

 

[TrollerDave]

This is the hero of the day.. He’s the one that pulled Scott out of the water. His boat is called a “FRO?” Said it’s one of three ever made and the only one on the water. I personally have never heard of it but it looked like it ran ok after he put it in the water.
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Looks like a splash of an Eliminator/Bahner bubbledeck with that pod on the back.
Thanks for the pics. A lot of amazing boats. Bummed we missed it.

 

[AzMandella]

The mandella was built by Eddie’s inboard marine in tucson, he hit it out of the park on that build!

Yep the long deck Mandella # 90 was just completed as a full restoration a couple of months ago by Eddie's Inboard Marine it Tucson . It was built for endurance racing .My boat is over there now and is going to be the exact same metalflake orange .

 

[copterzach]

This is about as clean as it gets!! Everything about this boat was sick including the reg numbers

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I tried to buy it a few years ago. Or at least a black winger that’s damn near identical


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[oldschool]

Liked this Hondo too.

 

[coolchange]

Liked this Hondo too. View attachment 1053717 View attachment 1053722

That won river racer class. Did you look close?

 

[OCMerrill]

Awesome RD. Loving the pics.

 

[oldschool]

That won river racer class. Did you look close?

At the stirrup?