Recent content by rivets4ever

Thanks for the encouraging replies! I'll send some pix this coming week after the hull is pressure cleaned. Right now it is downright nasty and downright UGLY. I'd be reluctant to admit I even knew anything about it let alone owned it. How nasty is it? Well I'm going to wear two bags over my...

Trying to resurrect a 1957 Blue Star runabout. I have the title in my name (!), there's a trailer under it, I have a decent 20 hp Evinrude with the wiring harness and a middle sized pile of random boat parts including a radio, lights, some gauges, steering wheel and Teleflex parts, throttle...

Actually . . . I have one! Thanks for the reminder ;-) I'll try it but I need to be careful because the air chisel might be a bit overpowered for this application - I'd like to have something left to put back together again when I'm done. But good idea, always examine alternatives...

Went back to the Seventh Circle of Hell (AKA the DMV) and at first they couldn't find anything. Naturally, the clerk who called me was out to lunch (physically and literally), but the supervisor eventually found the papers. Signed my name and dated it and asked the standard Windows questions -...

I swear these droids at the DMV are dumber than a box of rocks. Just got a phone call "Can you come back and see us?" "Ummm, why?" "We forgot to get one signature." "Can you mail it to me?" "No, we have to see you . . . " It is only a 30 mile round trip, and it can only be done at their...

Returned alive from the DMV . . . Title was $8.25 (after they made me go away and crawl down inside the hull to get a pencil tracing of the hull number) plus $3.25 for an affidavit of non-use because I won't be registering it until it is ready to go into the water. "Would you like the...

Yeah the air horns are definitely "period". (There are two, one showing, one lying in the bottom of the boat.) Now I just need a captain's hat, a blue blazer, a martini, and a bikini-clad blonde, and it is 1958 all over again. Of course, since I was only 12 years old in 1958, I would have had...

Likely going for original, or at least within shouting distance of it. I like the looks of these older boats and I think it would be a shame to hack this up. I saw a company (in Colorado, I think) making brand new fiberglass replicas of "fin boats" using modern components, engines, etc. Boat...

Pix attached as requested. DMV didn't exactly lie to me, they just didn't bother to tell the WHOLE truth. The $9 part for the title seems to be correct, but the local office wants a tracing of the hull number (all three digits of it) - wish they'd said something about it before I spent an hour...

I promise to take some pix tomorrow and add them. Honest. It is already dark here and there just isn't enough light to get any decent pictures. Best Regards, Rivets4ever

Putting a toe in the water . . . Got a 1958 Blue Star 15 foot "Islander" runabout (tail fins and all) for the regal price of "Get this dang thing outta my back yard!" Well, if you insist. Talked to Florida DMV, turns out it is so old there never was a title, and it is from a state that...