What cool collector boats would you own

I totally agree with the Donzi! Have to search the Coronado. A Scarrab 38 with twin 502's would be cool too.

Glad to see some Century fans! You guys have good taste....

Otherwise, I suppose a Donzi Sweet Sixteen would do....

i almost pulled the trigger this week on a 36 fountain with twin 572s it has always been a favorite. the donzi 22 black hawk edition would be my first choice over anything also the older 21 and 22 bertrams

well it steers from the skylark side,its a formula like i have now , it has white on it , i bet it could run with any comparable donzi .that transom might be the prettiest thing ever

BTW capt nick: I've spent many many years in my friends 72 Coronado, the hardtop model is nowhere near as nice as his open version. A Hardtop is hot and a hassle during docking etc. Nicest Coronado feature is besides the roomy front seat, there is also a great 2-seat bench attached to the front of the engine box, so room galore. There is also a mint Coronado Cardel model on my lake, which is a giant v-drive, with a huge open cockpit including even a sink. nice guy, beautiful boat, but I prefer the DD version.

74Wind wrote: BTW capt nick: I've spent many many years in my friends 72 Coronado, the hardtop model is nowhere near as nice as his open version. A Hardtop is hot and a hassle during docking etc. Nicest Coronado feature is besides the roomy front seat, there is also a great 2-seat bench attached to the front of the engine box, so room galore. There is also a mint Coronado Cardel model on my lake, which is a giant v-drive, with a huge open cockpit including even a sink. nice guy, beautiful boat, but I prefer the DD version.

Everyone has there own preference. Despite that it could get hot and docking can be a hassel I would still like to have the Coronado hardtop. To bring water with me to stay cool. That boat I would keep on the boat lift during boating season. If I were to go traveling or grab a bite to eat I would have another person with me to help out with the docking.

There was another neat hardtop that's rare a Glastron Scimatar.

The Formula jr. what a cool looking boat. The front half look like a donzi. The back half and transom looks like the barrelback on a Chris Craft.     

jhersey29 wrote: 1971 Correct Craft Mustang and a 1971 split bumper Camaro to pull it. I know not wood and not really old but just cool.

I hate having to say this but I was talking about a non Correct Craft boat that could be considered a collector boat. It could be a Glastron of the 70s, a Scarab from the 80s, a Magnum Marine, Century, Donzi, etc.   

1. Century Coronado hardtop, after someone else has completely restored it - if I had the money, that's what I might have bought instead of my current boat.
2. Riva Aquarama - might as well "get nuts!", to quote Seinfeld.
3. Hutchinson Limousine, or maybe a utility, or maybe a triple cockpit - the Limousine is just unique, and I'm partial to the brand because they were built in the town where I spend as much of the summer as I can afford...
4. Vanquish - I'm not sure what the model is called. In the modern boat category, this seems like a modern mashup of the stylish Century and a functional Lyman.

Thanks for the picture, 74Wind! That looks old - angled transom, no windshield. Was it one with the controls originally on the sides?
I used to wait on a much later Hutchinson utility during my summers on the gas dock, one of their last ones if memory serves. It was as sexy as you could make a utility-style boat look; not the button-down utilitarian look of the Lyman, nor the chunky, bulbous hips of the CC Sea Skiff.

The limousine was an interesting look, and very quiet at the helm, given the separation from engine and exhaust. There are two on the left side of this picture:

http://www.abm.org/index.php/collections/watercraft-collection/doebler-building/

Had to sell the red '75 Sweet Sixteen to buy my SN. The blue 18 belongs to a friend. He was flying off the wake of the Thunderbird on Lake Tahoe.

Terminal: can't recall the specific year of that hutch, but as I recall it had purportedly been a rumrunner on Ontario during Prohibition so that would put it in somewhere in the 20's.

Great thread Captain Nick! Thanks for this post, it is right up my alley!
I will post some of my favorite boats I would love to have tied up at the dock along with my Correct Craft:

I always have loved the Glastrons of the late '60's and most of all of the '70's. Just nice looking boats! But this one pictured, is identical to the one on the lake as a kid, during my summers on the lake. I think it was a 1973 or '74 Glastron-Carlson CV18. Big V8 with a Volvo Penta outdrive. The boat flew! And had a unique sound to it too. Some lady owned it. Very cool!


I've always been a huge fan of the big Penn Yans too. This boat pictured is a early to mid '70's Penn Yan Explorer. V8 inboard, featuring the unique tunnel drive propulsion. As with the Glastron-Carlson CV18, the Explorer was the only one on the lake, although two other big PY's were the I/O models. But this tunnel drive inboard was awesome! Some kid used to always be at the helm at full throttle always and always had a ton of other people aboard. I loved the strange wake it made due to the tunnel drive. It was like part inboard and part jet boat. But the hull is a classic!


I really got into this unique 16' tri-hull Chrysler I/O we had on the lake back in the day. The one on our lake was white with blue interior and was powered with a Chrysler V6, I think. Just kind of a cool look to it and looked nice on the water. After it had disappeared from the lake in the late '80's or early '90's, I actually found the boat behind a marine storage facility near the lake one day. Poor thing was a hot mess. Such a shame.


I have to give homage to one of my favorites for many decades: The MFG. The mid '60's models were favorites and the lake had a ton of them. I think the Edinboro model was quite classic.


For some reason I have always been smitten with the lap straked fiberglass hull design on runabouts. The Steury Boat Co. was very popular in the '70's and I loved the hull designs of the I/O's especially.