Show Ski Boats....Inboard vs. Hydrodyne

Bri892001 wrote: M3Fan, Here's one:

Let the drooling begin. I'd own that boat in a HEARTBEAT, as long as I have an SN as well, of course. I think the 93 S&S is one of the best looking boats ever made, but it couldn't be my primary rig.

Alan, there is a Mastercraft very similar to yours on Route 302 in Raymond Maine that has been for sale since the summer. I haven't stoppe dto look at it,but it looks clean on the drive by. It does have nice lines.

Alan,
What color was the boat above? Hard to tell from the pics. Good looking boat nonetheless. Back in my day, we had an 84 MC Stars and Stripes and an 82 or 86 Nautique at our disposal as well as a bunch of I/Os and OBs. We were pretty well rounded and did pretty much everything on the water. We used the MC as the slalom tractor and we pretty much used the CC for all else.

One thing I liked about that MC we used was how you could sit in the driver seat and reach the water to retrieve a line, dropped ski or anything else. It really had low sides and felt like you were sitting right on top of the water. The ride in the MC was horrendous though and the backseat was a wet ride in all but the most glassy conditions. Didn't care much at the time about that b/c we always used it with the seat out, but it was another reason to use the CC if we were actually needed to sit in the back. The platform on it seemed noticeably smaller than on the CC too and it worked itself loose by about 87 which left many of us feeling that the MC didn't have the same craftsmanship as the CC.

Regardless of the drawbacks of the MC, I always liked the way looked. Even now I still like the way they look and if storage space, money and the opportunity came along, I'd buy one as a second boat. Again not as a replacement for my CC. I still think that a mid 80s S&S has a slalom wake that all but the top skiers in the world can appreciate.

Just a quick note on the O/B discussion. My brother-in-law has a Calabria O/B with a Merc 225 2-stroke with a Hi-5 prop on it, and I have never seen a hole shot pull like that boat. I am sure that the twins and triples are more, but this thing is crazy fast. A ton of fun.

gotta love the classic lines on these old inboards. cool pic 81nautique.

Very interesting....a high 5 with hole shot is new to me. Not saying I don't believe you just never seen one like that before....

But nonetheless....cool!

I'd love a little barefoot rig like that or a flight craft

mdvalant wrote: Very interesting....a high 5 with hole shot is new to me. Not saying I don't believe you just never seen one like that before.... But nonetheless....cool!

Back when the Nuts had (3) 225 Mercs on the Triple Rig the outboard motors where counter-rotating (3 or 4 blade, can't remember) and the center motor ran a 5-blade prop.

Wow, that thing is sleek!

I know outboards have been the preferred/state of the art barefoot boats and can appreciate that, but still not a big fan of outboards. I am however a big fan of sleek boats and always liked the original Flightcraft inboards. Looked for one when shopping for my first inboard, but couldnt find one. Pretty limited space, though.

Checkmates are definitely cool. Not necessarily the best family boats as they have a huge closed bow, but I guess some of the bowriders are better. My brother had a really nice Enchanter sterndrive. He built the engine piece by piece. He was pushing 500 plus hp by the end. I think this video was before he had even reached peak:

Fl Inboards wrote: We have been doing a long term resto on a 69 "Dinky" Dyne it was a Central Florida Show boat that I have spent the last 4 years trying to restore on and off. I belongs to a Show team out of Lakeland. In Retrospect I should have recomended that the hull get cut up and thrown away but I accepted the challange and to this date we have removedd all the gelcoat, re-stringered with full length stringer, Re-done the bottom inside and out with Balsa Coring and re-inforced and rebuilt the transom to accept a 200 HP Merc short shaft and a jack plate. I could have built a new mold and a couple of boats for what I have into this project. But like I said I accepted the challange and after the first of the year we will flip the boat back up right and start rigging.

Is this boat from the Lakeland Waterski Club?   Who is the owner? I only know of 1 Hydrodyne in Lakeland.