Sanger DX II Build Quality?

Hw, that boat fits you so well.

when you guys say CPES do you mean Clear Penetrating
Epoxy Sealer?

You have that right HW,Low weight,no wood and High Output 2 strokes
are the way to go

Gary, does that one have an in floor whisky chiller for HW's burbon?

At least she's still going Joe and saved for prosperity.Unfortunately
Dad started using his in saltwater and the 64 Merc wasn't up to the
task. Thats why the newer Merc is on there. Being at the time in his
mid 80's I was not wild with the idea of him being out there by himself
anyway so this helped a little.

Zack you can put ice or fat sacks between the seats

I think this is the 3rd or 4th topic this thread is on? Lets go for 5.

Ha, actually I'm good to go. It's my better half that's steeling my mojo right now. I'm working on her.

I love old stuff, but one thing I don't reminisce about is old outboards, especially those oil burners from the 50's and 60's. My family had a 1958 Johnson 50 hp, one of the biggest hogs ever made, for 10 years. We'd bring 24 qts of Sinclair outboard oil with us for a 2 week vacation. It had ports in the cowling so you could change spark plugs without removing it. We were fortunate to have it but it was a pig.

You guys ought to jump on that little Whaler like Correct Craft. That's a pretty cool little boat.

Larry, I like the boats, just not the engines. Our journey into classic boats started with this 1962 Custom Craft Manta Ray we found out in a field in Albany, Maine. We paid $50 and sold it to a guy from CT for $300 after we found the Mustang. My wife was so impressed with the 500% profit, we've had the green light ever since.

Soo many toys so little time. Before my first mustang purchase reformed me I was the old outboard guy around these parts. I had literally dozens of them lying around most given to me in payment for working on other outboards.   I have been thinning out the herd for the last 7 years and now after a trip to the scrap yard and some swaps at the local discount marine last week I am down to a 20, two 40s, and a 115. I had one of them orange and white gt 160s (two actually one was a parts boat) – 100 hp Johnson, it was fast and light but not so tough as my Tahiti so they went down the road cheap a move or two ago.   At this point I don’t really have the desire to put energy into restoring or even maintaining a full glass hull with vinyl interior with outboard power but an aluminum utility that doesn’t even need to be winterized/covered/fussed with is still a thing of beauty.   I traded a bellows job on an alpha for the mid nineties Nissan 40 hp for the mirrocraft and haven’t had time to mess with it due to a move hopefully it ends up reliable. The Johnson had run great for years without trouble but the ethanol the last two years was just causing havoc with the varnish coated cork float. Two carb rebuilds a summer for two years and off it came… would like to someday get a new float (nobody makes a modern replacement but there is still some nos cork around) and dip it in tank lining epoxy and see how it holds up.    While I remain enamored with some of the old outboard designs, the new 4 strokes are just so much better I would find it hard to justify day to day usage of one of the classics, whereas the classic fiberglass inboards remain very usable relative to their modern day counterparts.   

My daily driver for about 13 years. Fun little boat with enough uuumph for barefooting and slalom.