JB in so cal
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Early 2000 build. 23'
Early 2000 build. 23'
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I don't know much about Omega's, have seen a few over the years, but on another note, you guys eat well, is that a pizza buffet on the bow??
Forest Pittard owned Omega boats. One of my old salesman worked at Omega. I will just tell you this. You get what you pay for.
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I know that doesnt answer your question but, yes they are real boats, not home made!
I may have asked a while back but what lake is this, where. Looks great.
Back in the day Omega came out with the first production open bow hull, a low profile 21. It shared the bottom with the mini cruiser posted above with the pizza on the deck. Omega was an average builder back then comparable to the bulk of boats being pumped out the 70s. Anyway I was at Hawaiian at the time and the owners sent someone to purchase the then brand new open bow. Before then the only open bows were tri hulls or conversions from a hard deck. The new Omega arrives at the shop ( I think we were in the old Tahiti building in Bellflower when this happened, not the building in Huntington Beach) and everyone is checking it out and then the interior shop guys took all the interior out, copied the frames for patterns and then installed new interior. Someone else switched the Omega emblems for Hawaiians and a short time later we have it in the L.A. boat show and its selling like hot cakes. We debuted it at the exact moment in time that Omega did but we didnt even have a set of molds yet. lol
My dad and I went partners on one, had it until he passed in '99. Nice little hull that doesn't really like rough water.
I didn't know Omega survived the crash in '80. In fact I'm almost 100% they closed their doors then. Forrest must have kept the name and fired back up in the 90s?
So on the mini cruisers I posted above who splashed who? Hawaiian or Omega?
Don't remember who tooled it up, might have been Tahiti? Hawaiian was really just Tahiti pt II, same owners and a lot of the same employees.
That was a pretty popular hull and several builders offered it. There was a 19 and a 21 of that design.
My buddy has a 70s Omega jet boat, same hull as the Hawaiian of that era!
They where a good hull back then except they used Panther Pumps!
Could not be said better.Forest Pittard owned Omega boats. One of my old salesman worked at Omega. I will just tell you this. You get what you pay for.
The boat was called a Sunstreaker and might have been copied more the the 20 Spectra. I could name almost a dozen that used that hull. I don’t care for it. It’s to low profile. The closed bow looks better then the open bow in my opinion.Back in the day Omega came out with the first production open bow hull, a low profile 21. It shared the bottom with the mini cruiser posted above with the pizza on the deck. Omega was an average builder back then comparable to the bulk of boats being pumped out the 70s. Anyway I was at Hawaiian at the time and the owners sent someone to purchase the then brand new open bow. Before then the only open bows were tri hulls or conversions from a hard deck. The new Omega arrives at the shop ( I think we were in the old Tahiti building in Bellflower when this happened, not the building in Huntington Beach) and everyone is checking it out and then the interior shop guys took all the interior out, copied the frames for patterns and then installed new interior. Someone else switched the Omega emblems for Hawaiians and a short time later we have it in the L.A. boat show and its selling like hot cakes. We debuted it at the exact moment in time that Omega did but we didnt even have a set of molds yet. lol
My dad and I went partners on one, had it until he passed in '99. Nice little hull that doesn't really like rough water.
I didn't know Omega survived the crash in '80. In fact I'm almost 100% they closed their doors then. Forrest must have kept the name and fired back up in the 90s?
The boat was called a Sunstreaker and might have been copied more the the 20 Spectra. I could name almost a dozen that used that hull. I don’t care for it. It’s to low profile. The closed bow looks better then the open bow in my opinion.
Somehow Omega became involved with the shop that used to service my prior boat in So Cal. I never trusted the Omega folks. I would pass for sure.Forest Pittard owned Omega boats. One of my old salesman worked at Omega. I will just tell you this. You get what you pay for.
... Had a 20‘6“ ...1975 Omega Daycruiser 455 Olds with a Jacuzzi jet... it was a boat my sister had... I drove from California to Georgia to pick it up ...when I got it back to California... I stepped on the floor it was like stepping on a sponge so I ripped out the floor and could not believe what I saw it was a three stringer hull but the center stringer only had fiberglass roving draped over the center stringer...Really didn’t appear to offer much of any structural support... Nice looking boat but???...yikes...I couldn’t believe a manufacturer would turn out something so poorly thrown together???...Dunno???...
...Unfortunately where are you see the boat sitting at my lake Oroville property that is where it met its demise in September when the fire roard through there...
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I bet some beer were had in that lil' squirter . That's a clean looking boatBought a 76 21 Tahiti in the early 90's and ran that thing to death on the lower river. Did a complete resto on it and used it for another 10 years before I upgraded. Great little boat and was built like a tank.
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That 20 was being tooled up as some of us left Tahiti with Schuster to go to Hawaiian. I think it’s one of the best looking hulls of the 70s as far as a family boat. We had that model at Advantage too.Bought a 76 21 Tahiti in the early 90's and ran that thing to death on the lower river. Did a complete resto on it and used it for another 10 years before I upgraded. Great little boat and was built like a tank.
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...Well that certainly leaves me scratching my head I don’t recall the center deal being tall enough so that it could be a support for the floor...but then again I’ve been wrong before???...That's terrible.
About that center stringer, it's not really a stringer but just a support to hold the floor up. That's it's only purpose life and pretty much the standard of the industry back when short stringer layups were the rage.
...It’s all coming back to me now that center floor support was in truth about 3/4 of an inch to an inch lower than the stringers ...that’s why I assumed it was a poor job of putting a third stringer in... I remember a friend saying maybe that is just for floor support which is when I put a straight edge across the stringers and the floor support was quite a bit lower than the stringers???...(Maybe lol)...That's terrible.
About that center stringer, it's not really a stringer but just a support to hold the floor up. That's it's only purpose life and pretty much the standard of the industry back when short stringer layups were the rage.
...It’s all coming back to me now that center floor support was in truth about 3/4 of an inch to an inch lower than the stringers ...that’s why I assumed it was a poor job of putting a third stringer in... I remember a friend saying maybe that is just for floor support which is when I put a straight edge across the stringers and the floor support was quite a bit lower than the stringers???...(Maybe lol)...
...If it wasn’t for the three-quarter or 1 inch dip I might not have noticed that the floor was a semi sponge..:that's just shitty workmanship. The only job that center 'stringer' has is to hold the floor up, having it 3/4 below the top of the stringers is pretty funny actually. Nice little dip in the floor to retain water.
Funny thing, the title said it was a 21. Most people called it a 20 but it measured out at 20.6 from tip to tail. I just chalked it up to craziness going on in the 70’s boat building word!That 20 was being tooled up as some of us left Tahiti with Schuster to go to Hawaiian. I think it’s one of the best looking hulls of the 70s as far as a family boat. We had that model at Advantage too.