Originally Posted by frankg

I don’t know about you guys but around the boat yards around here we always thought of VIKING YACHTS as being a rich man’s boat.

Is there any such thing as a poor man's boat anymore?

Wow, this brings back memories. My Dad used to sell yachts down on the shore around Pt. Pleasant and Manasquan. This is neat, thanks.

Back in the day there was hardly any river, inlet, or body of water that did not have either a boat builder or boat yard sitting on its shoreline setup and doing business, Many of the builders where well aware of whist the other builders were doing as far as style, quantity, quality of the competition, and many of them offered the boats and yachts through distributors nationwide.

Many of the boat builders could trace their linage back centuries, to the time of the revolutionary war.

Originally Posted by Bob Gaito

Is there any such thing as a poor man's boat anymore?

Yes, an inflatable kayak.

Originally Posted by Bob Gaito

Sorry I couldn't find any wooden Jerseys but here's a typical jersey SF... Bill, almost all the above boats have a common thread-designer David Martin.

I love the price on the 33footer, $11.950.00. A lot of money back then...

Rrg- $12,000 sounds like a lot of money back then but thr JERSEY 33’ was a lot of boat.

Hatteras, Cabo, Bertram, may not be Jersey Shore boats, but great sport fishers --

All you sport fisherman fanatics, pull up Cabo San Lucas shotgun start--I would post the link but haven't been on board long enough to learn the ropes --

Welcome jrhilde..no lie I was in the Bayshore Mako tournanent shotgun start with the above boat in 1967(when the Pacemaker was new) and it was VERY similar!

Extreme shotgun start in the Tuna Jackpot in Cabo San Lucas Nov. 2010 (1 min 41 sec)

Bob Entenman , himself, would drop a coffee cake in everyone's outstretched crab net and the gun would fire ... then all throttles to the corners from the marina to the inlet...I think for safety sake they now have modified the procedure..

Originally Posted by jrhilde

Hatteras, Cabo, Bertram, may not be Jersey Shore boats, but great sport fishers --

Not to mention Rybovich.

As long as we are bringing up Floridian boats-I throw out there an aluminum SF -Stryker

Bill-didn't you have one of these? Well I don't have the boat but I grabbed a brochure in the '70s...

Originally Posted by Bob Gaito

Bill-didn't you have one of these? Well I don't have the boat but I grabbed a brochure in the '70s...

I did Bob. Mine had a t-top ,oxygen tent, outriggers and a gin pole.