With the growing popularity of wooden boat runabouts among vintage boating and car enthusiasts, Antique Boat Center now offers custom-designed vintage boat trailers for easy launch and retrieval; with features that are ideal for frequent travelers to classic boat shows, as well as the evening sunset cruiser.

The beautiful chrome cutwater, mahogany hull, and often oak frames of vintage boats need more than a budget roller bunk and a polyurethane V-bow stop with a winch hooking to an eye bolt in the stem. For added support and protection, Antique Boat Center’s classic boat trailers start with a C-channel or box frame structure. “I” beam aluminum, sized correctly, provides effective support with reduced weight. A trailer used in brackish or salt water must be galvanized or a combination of aluminum and galvanized cross braces with stainless steel bolts and hardware. Galvanized and aluminum can be painted to match the bottom color of your woodie or interior for a concourse show look. Flush systems can be added if use in salt is a possibility. Select wheels and colors are available to match custom tow vehicles to top off a show-quality antique wooden boat with a classic car or truck.

Jeremy Bragg, chief mechanical technician at the Antique Boat Center, orders all custom trailers with four bunks to give maximum support to the hull. These antique boat trailers also include a drop propeller cage to protect bronze propellers from damage, cresting curbs, or launch ramp challenges.

An adjustable goal post style bow stop, which the rub rail of the deck rests against, supports forward movement of the boat, while allowing movement for cover installation or “slip back” of the classic boat when retrieving from the water. Adjustable load guides help keep the boat centered while loading and are able to be stored on the trailer when not being used.

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This one is from EZ Loader. The boxed channel frame has 16 rollers for trailer parts at the back with 8 rollers trailer parts towards the middle. The trailer rollers give support based on their number in a given area.

A Formula bow rider boat, boat trailer, and a Mercury Mercruiser V-8 for under $100,000 is available today. Some are way under. The boat options and the Merc engine and inboard outboard drive choices do much to drive your price.

Adding the biggest small block Mercury Mercruiser engine adds about $7,000 to a base, but nicely equipped and rather hi-tech, built boat. A Bimini is $1,385 and a cockpit and bow cover is $1,275. Now finish off the cockpit with some carpet at $555 and a head with dockside pumpout at $625. Pick a trailer and you are ready for getting on the water in a nice wakeboarding and other water sports bow rider boat. She makes an excellent ski boat.

http://www.carolinawatersports.com/boat_inventory/newboat.htm

It looks like it is one year old.

Wow, lots of stuff! Boaters must go to here, this Fri, Sat, and Sun.

http://www.daniamarinefleamarket.com/

What makes a Bryant boat? It’s the performance on the water.

How does this boat builder do it? A hand laid fiberglass stringer system and a molded hand laid fiberglass cockpit sole all added into a hand laid hull AND hand laid deck in a unique hull shape with a unique balance point.

Note, there is no chopper gun in the Bryant plant. All the parts of the boat are built using layers built up of dry-laid cloth and hand brushed-in resin which is then combined into a solid unit in the boat, not in the air as thin string glass hairs and air-gun blown resin does that builds far too much weight without enough strength. Visit the plant like I did for yourself

On the water she is more than precision sharp in turns, solid like a fine German car over wakes (all that hand-laid stuff) and quick up on a level-riding plane (the attention to hull design and care in setting the balance point). Take a ride and feel no shake as you cross a wake.

Are they sharp looking boats? Yes, with more color lines and accent stripes built into the fiberglass hull. Like a high priced ski or wakeboard boat, Mr. Joe insists that all of the base color, accent bands, and pin stripe details are built into the gelcoat…not added on top of that gelcoat with last minute tape. Run your finger over the color edges and feel that built into the gelcoat construction detail at a boat show. Fine seating and a upscale helm station coupled with the better engine controls adds to the image of a fine, hand crafted boat.

How does seabuddy like to see a 233 model equipped? With a Mercury Mercruiser Alpha One drive (the fastest top speed family drive on the market) with a V-6 Mercury MerCruiser Multisport Injection (MPI) inboard outboard (Sterndrive) Engine of 220 Hp. Why? This boat design and this builder make this boat in such a manner that the two prop drives are not needed. And this power set-up in the 233 allows for saving some dollars on the power package this year that can go into other B-M-T choices. I like a bimini with a full enclosure, bow cover, trailer disc brakes, a swing away trailer tongue, a galvanized trailer dip finish, a trailer spare tire and its mount, and some other options that add to family boating fun.

LOA for the 233 is 23’ 3” with a 8’ 6” beam and she comes with a 42 gallon gas tank.

Perhaps see one for yourself at the Great Upstate Boat Show 3/26-28.

http://www.greatupstateboatshow.com/

Local dealer

http://www.frsmithandsonsmarina.com/

Photos from Bryant Boats

The 25th Annual Palm Beach International Boat Show, March 25 – 28, 2010, is one of the top ten boat shows in the country – featuring more than $350 million worth of boats, yachts and accessories from the world’s leading marine manufacturers. It is truly an International Show. The event includes hundreds of Boats from 8 foot inflatables, power boats, fishing boats, center consoles, bow riders, personal watercraft to superyachts over 150’.

SunDance Marine Authorized to Short Sale all Inventory!
• SunDance Marine to accept bids on all existing inventory below invoice cost.
• All Purchases must be cash or pre-approved financing.
• All engine and manufacturer warranties remain in effect.
• All 2007, 2008 and 2009 existing Inventory, as equipped.
• Manufacturers include Wellcraft (including Scarab models), Silverton, Regal, Formula, Ocean, Venture
• Program authorized for existing inventory only and will not be approved on new orders.
• Program covers all SunDance Marine, Inc. inventory as of July 1, 2009, and listed on SunDance Marine website:

www.sundancemarineusa.com

Boston Whaler now uses a new hull with 50% more weight , a smoother riding bottom shape, and higher hull sides to reinvent their most popular boat model. The first hull design and weight lasted more than 50 plus years. Now the hard ride is softened and the general family fun factor has increased for all the family boating activities. Look at the new bottom shape at the transom and the bucket seat option over the standard boat bench seat in the deeper cockpit. See five photos here.

Note the MPG at these specific rpms…

3,000 and then 3,500 and then 4,500 and then at 5,000 rpms.