FOR THE LOVE OF WOODEN BOATS.....

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 12:24 pm

myakka wrote:Aaron if you zoom in on that Carver Mariner someone went to the trouble to add a bracket and two outboards to it. I took the picture as I waited for the bridge to close

i just did a zoom in.... is she running on two outboards? is that what i'm seeing?

summer storm · Post by **summer storm** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 12:28 pm

myakka wrote:Yup, same boat. The website I read listed it as 142'. Either way its big.

no biggie,

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 12:33 pm

myakka wrote:Aaron if you zoom in on that Carver Mariner someone went to the trouble to add a bracket and two outboards to it. I took the picture as I waited for the bridge to close

i just did a zoom in.... is she running on two outboards? is that what i'm seeing?

jimbo36 · Post by **jimbo36** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:23 pm

todd brinkerhoff wrote:We go to Hammondsport, NY every year for the classic boat show at their boat museum. I have always loved woody's and my father and I are restoring and old Century Lapstrake. When I was at the museum a year ago, they were restoring one of the coolest boats I have ever see. It was a 48 foot Hackercraft with twin 1500 hp V-12 engines. It is said to be the largest runabout created and was the only one built. It's named "Pardon Me". Apparently, noone really held on to the boat for very long due to its bad manners.

http://www.abm.org/index.php/exhibits/b ... ion-shops/

I am very fimilar with "PARDON ME" THE 48' "RUN-A-BOUT" at the Marine Museum in Clayton New York. 48' in length, built in 1948 at a cost of 48K. Often mistakingly referred to as a Hackercraft, she was built by Hutchinson Boat Works, of the same area on the St Lawrence River, and was a John L. Hacker design.

myakka · Post by **myakka** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:50 pm

Great history lesson Todd and Jimbo. Thanks. I haven't made it the the St. Lawrence yet but that now will be on my places/things to see.
Mike