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20th, Youve got me trying to remember things that happened in the 80's when hydroponics were just starting out..lol   I do remember loud exhaust on it, it i believe was a 351 with a 1:1 v-drive which is the reason i bought the boat, the back housing was destroyed and i pulled it and machined all the mounts and re-installed with spacers, we used the boat to ski and tube and to lure groupies (in bikini's) thats when i seen a guy i tihnk its called skurfing behind a boston whaler and i thought to myself, I gotta try that. over the years i worked on a few centuries, i remember one that a woman owned and she was very fond of it and it had a arch on it, i think it was an Arabian. Man thats one boat i wish i still had they really do have modern lines to them and were ahead of thier time

My family had a Boston Whaler for 37 years. It was just traded in on an I/O this year (not my doing). We did everything with that boat, but I have never heard of skurfing. If you had to choose one boat that had to last the rest of your life. . . make it a Whaler. They are so homely you can't hurt them. The Arabians are cool boats. There was also a Sabre model that has the same hull as the Arabian, but it was a straight drive with exhaust at the water line. Many also had a hard top.

Nice...cool looking boat.

john

Raindog,

Great looking boat! I think yours is probably a little bigger than mine if it is a 17 footer. Mine is a 16. Does your bench seat freak people out? At the marina I have had a number of people comment about how the boat looks like a car on water.

Thanks for the kind words jbear!

20, That's really nice looking. Glad you're here on our site. It sounds like you'll be a great addition to us too. check out the post "how to post pictures" and you won't have to deal with all the down sizing...

Go Irish!

My brother's 1980 Resorter 18.

Nice Ride for sure