A smart up grade from the Tracker. Very nice. P.I.M.P.First boat was 18' Targa, This was my second 19' Lund Pro V, 225 E-tec just a great boat.
Did you have dice to match the snakeskin back then?LOL.
Nice those boats were the weekly prize in the Toronto Summer Salmon Search in the 90's only in a centre console. My Smoker Craft Sea Monster had two mini Mags also.Mine was a 1988 Starcraft SS 180 with a 100 hp Merc 2+2...same boat as in the picture. I had Cannon mini-mag electrics, Lowrance graph, Locan-C...great boat even with the problems inherent with rotting wood decks etc. Put a lot of Pt. Glascow and Erieau walleye in that boat ..and learned a bunch about fishing 12 miles offshore on Lake Erie when it blows up...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heres my first boat..A classic 1985 17ft deep V wilker..had it modified & custom ordered..just paid $12000 cash and pickin it up here in the photo..
plenty of power 115 merc 2 stroker 6 cylinder..power trimmed & maxed out 45 mph 5500 rpms..
Ya some know these wilkers were first prizes in many fishin derbys on erie and huron..
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35 years later.. 2020 photos below... its still going strong..sold it this march for $6000 to a happy owen sound salmon fisherman..I am happy and satisfyed to get it right and buy a fishin boat that lasts a life time..
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Buddy your grandkids well own that thing someday great boats built to lastView attachment 22835
1989 17 foot Wilker. Still using it today!!
Wow that thing is nice!! What a tank.Ya theres still wilker country around..huron & owen sound..
Heres a nicely rigged and ship shape wilker below I ran into launchin my lund at erieau boat launch last season..
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Hey high hopes..I forgot to get married and have kids or grand kids..and the blue wilker is sold my friend..
My 1990 springbok, Which I use to this day, My very first boat was also a 1989 Springbok with a 90 Johnson .1987 14ft Lund, 25Merc & 4hp Johnson.This pic is in Goderich, it had a Hummingbird fish finder that marked a fish as a 4 pixel square box.LOL.View attachment 22816
My buddy had a 14ft Thornes , was the floor not sky blue on your boat or did you paint it?Well she wasn’t much but I did some things with this boat you maybe shouldn’t do. 14 foot thornes with 15 hp 2 stroke Johnson.
Oh I sanded the whole thing down, fixed a couple leaks , reinforced all the seats with aluminum angle pieces and yes painted it afterwards. When I got it it looked like that, picked up a little 2 hp Honda for the back lakes too.My buddy had a 14ft Thornes , was the floor not sky blue on your boat or did you paint it?
And yes the floor under another layer of paint was an aweful robin egg blue ...Oh I sanded the whole thing down, fixed a couple leaks , reinforced all the seats with aluminum angle pieces and yes painted it afterwards. When I got it it looked like that, picked up a little 2 hp Honda for the back lakes too.
And yes the floor under another layer of paint was an aweful robin egg blue ...
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