….including this Cobalt looking more than OK  if you can get a replacement V-6 engine and  Alpha drive it needs. All are up for final auction to the highest bidder starting at 1 PM on Sat at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum off Talbot (the main street) Street, in St, Michaels, MD.

This speedster is a sanding night mare right now but should get you to where the fish are biting after that work is done.

Here is a nice row boat for HUMAN power. Needs some work, not much and you are on the water.Maybe a seation of wood or some git rot stuff?

These are not Trailer Queens but used boats that need attention and given that attention will get families and friends out on the water boating at a great value.

OK, here is the sleeper… A 25 foot long Grady – White with Twin 200 Hp Yamaha outboards. Sweet! Bring a hull surveyor and a top grade Yammie Tech and go over everything and then put in a bid. A Grady is top shelf Stuff is she has not been used hard and put away wet. Check it out…it your money. No refunds.

September 9th ~ 12th, 2010
Queen’s Landing on Lake Norman
1459 River Highway, Mooresville, North Carolina
Free Public Exhibition September 11, 2010

Each September… for more than a decade the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society has presented
for the public enjoyment the most impressive display of vintage power boats in the Carolinas. On Saturday September
11th, 2010 the Charlotte Antique and Classic Boat Show will hold its 13th annual public exhibition. Classic mahogany
beauties, ashore and afloat, surging across the waves with roaring V-8 muscle or cruising sedately in their splendor, the
participating exhibits will hail from distant home ports across the country from Michigan to Florida. Family runabouts
and gentleman’s racers — elegant cruisers and rough ‘n tumble skiffs — even a world speed record challenger and a
handmade steam launch! The variety will be dazzling. 

Among the featured exhibits this year is the original 1931 Harmsworth Cup winner “Miss America IX .”
Designed and driven by legendary inventor and entrepreneur Gar Wood, “Miss American IX” reached 102.256 miles
per hour during her trials, thus becoming the first watercraft to exceed 100 miles per hour – the world speed record!
“Miss America IX” was originally powered by a pair of supercharged 1000 hp Packard V-12s, however her current
owner, Mr. Chuck Mistele , has her fitted out with a matched pair of slightly more sedate 454 cubic inch Chevrolet
Corvette engines. Though not quite in the same league as the original record-breaking Packards, her modern power
plant roars with authority that is as much felt as heard. “Miss America IX” is not to be missed!

Highlights include a cockpit that is every bit as big as most 25-footers, a clever removable cooler that doubles as forward seating, access to the bow all at deck level, and a handsome, well-engineered optional T-top integrated into the console structure.                

“Our focus in re-engineering this center console was first and foremost to add a useful-sized head area,” says Joey Weller, vice president of sales and marketing for Grady-White. “But that was far from all. Grady-White builds a complete line of ten different center console models from 18 to 36 feet in length and we wanted to integrate some of our bigger center console features into this good-looking 20-footer including the optional T-top. Plus, we’ve made it ready for the new generation of highly efficient Yamaha engines coming to market. We think that a lot of things come together in the Fisherman 209 to create a terrific choice in a smaller Grady-White center console for young families.”

                        “The new Fisherman 209 is designed, of course, to be powered by a single Yamaha four stroke engine and the super-efficient new generation 200 or 250 HP engine is a great match for this boat,” continues Weller. “Combine this efficient power with Grady-White’s exclusive SeaV²® hull, and you really have a wonderful, safe and solid ride at almost any speed and condition.”

                        “We looked to our new 23-foot Fisherman 230 when we worked on creating the head area on the Fisherman 209,” says David Neese,

LOA without outboard 20’ 4”, beam 97”, Max Hp 250,  82 gallon fuel tank

The cars will come completely assembled and painted (less engine & transmission). Custom paint jobs will also be available. Vehicles can be purchased directly from Tasca Ford in Cranston, Rhode Island, or from Factory Five Racing, in Wareham, MA.  

The new program and professionally-built cars will be unveiled at the 13^th Annual Tasca-Mustang and Ford show this coming Sept 11, 2010, at Tasca Ford in Cranston, RI and at the 2010 SEMA show in Las Vegas this coming November.  

“This program brings together two great New England companies.  Tasca’s legendary history with Ford and their unquestioned racing/automotive expertise is a perfect match for our modern engineering and performance-based chassis designs.  It is such an honor to bring manufacturing jobs to New England and to do so with an exciting and global-reaching product like our new ‘33 Hot Rod built with the professionals at Tasca Ford.  

                                                                                                Dave Smith, President Factory Five Racing

The QL Neutra-Salt Engine

Flushing System is now available

for installation on all gasoline

inboards and sterndrives.

 This

system is designed for both

freshwater- and saltwater-cooled

engines that have an enginedriven

raw-water pump. As a

saltwater boater, you’re continually

challenged by the corrosive effects

of salt — both inside and outside

your engine — particularly when

the boat is sitting unused in the

water. Now, with the installation

and use of the QL Neutra-Salt

Engine Flushing System, you have

an effective and simple solution to

combat internal corrosion and

help extend the life of your engine.

Benefits of our

flushing system:

•Flushes your engine while the

boat is sitting in the water —

there is no need to trailer your

boat or hook up to a freshwater

supply in order to flush and

protect your engine

•Helps protect your engine from

saltwater damage

•Helps prevent corrosion by

removing salt deposits, leaving

a protective corrosion inhibitor

on all metal surfaces, including:

Power-steering and oil cooler,

engine block, exhaust manifold

and risers, thermostat housing,

circulating and raw-water pumps

•Installs easily and operates

smoothly.

Kit includes: one quart of QL

Neutra-Salt motor flushing

concentrate, 3-quart reservoir

with mounting bracket, eight

feet of hose, brass raw-water

inlet tee fitting, connecting hose

for power-steering cooler, hose

photo not of this event

13th Annual Boat Auction

Get a great price on one of 75 plus boats

Saturday, September 4, 11am to 3pm
Boating experts and novices alike have the same opportunity to bid on the boat of their dreams! Offering everything from wooden rowing skiffs to classic sailboats and modern power cruisers. Included with Museum admission. Food additional cost.

  Help support the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum             

                                            and your new boat makes you feel better 

                                                           ——More boats and motors every day!——-

NOTE:   Please feel free to have your choice of boats inspected by a third party or yacht 

               Surveyor if you wish as all sales are “ as-is “.

Please check our web site www.cbmm.org

Please see Lad Mills for details

410 745-4942

lmills@cbmm.org

8-30-2010 LAM

Figure on a hand full or two  of power runabouts and cruisers, about fifty sailboats, a few jet skis, a few outboards, and about ten of so row boats. All need some tender need attention and if you are handy it is a great way to get out on the water.

Since I didn’t want to leave from either Miami or Ft. Lauderdale, which were already charted in these books, I eyeballed a course using theirs as a starting point. BTW, the pre-charted routes differed in each book slightly, as one edition had been corrected to 1990 and the other to 2002. Courses can change over time due to magnetic North movement.

I checked and confirmed my course heading using a hand-held Garmin 48 GPS, putting in a lat/lon for my Bimini arrival point as a GO TO point. I was pleased that my roughly calculated course was within a few degrees once I was underway. My excuse for not developing a “better” course? I was crossing on a top weather day—and in a faster boat. And land would only be out of sight for about 30-35 miles.

But then, there’s the Gulf Stream…

Think of the Gulf Stream as a “river”, running north within the Atlantic Ocean between the South FL coast and Bimini Island. It drags all boats northward as they try to cross East-West between Florida and the Islands. The slower the boat travels, the longer it’s in this current, and the more off-course any compass heading becomes. The Garmin GPS really adjusts for this nicely.