Home built by owner over a 4 year period, designed by Ken Bassett. She is a 14’10″” gentleman’s racer with a single cockpit aft, boasting a modern high performance hull – shallow dead rise incorporating a 12″” wide speed pad. Cold molded batten seam construction with mahogany and maple planking; all planks vacuum bagged, no staples. Power is a highly customized 1961 Mercury 800 FGS short shaft outboard. Modifications include a 1964 Mercury 1000 power head; solid state ignition using parts from late ’70’s to early ’90’s; flywheel, stator, end-caps and crankshaft from a 1968 Mercury 1000ss, main bearings pressed onto crankshaft, not into the end-caps. Tilt/trim is provided by a CMC-PT 130 unit controlled via blinker switch on steering wheel hub. All modern gauges including H2O pressure, volts, tachometer, GPS speedometer and fuel. 12 gallon fuel tank is aft of cockpit, positioned slightly to port to help balance boat.
She just touches 60mph measured via GPS, spinning a 24″” small eared chopper prop at 5600rpm. Very stable considering that only the last 12″” of hull are in water at speed.
Regularly used on Lake Crescent, WA, she excels at racing cars and log trucks along Highway 101!