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Can you truly love a skiff (Hobie Power Skiff)

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Joe Cesario
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1988 Hobie Power Skiff rebuild.
power 1998 johnson 50hp special.
18 gal fuel tank
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Smackdaddy53
Man that is sweet!
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Joe Cesario
Thank you, its such a fun boat to run with the tiller set up.
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devrep
really nice. nice shop too.
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MAK
Great looking boat. I really like the Hobies.
Did you have waterlogged foam in the bottom or rotted balsa in the transom to deal with?
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Yes i had to redo the transom, no water in the hull or stringers.
However the foam in the deck composite was water logged in quite a few spots, due to years of abuse and about 40 holes drilled in it and not properly sealed.
I had to cut alot of the top fiberglass sheet off of the deck and let the area dry out then re glass.
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M
Bad ass!!
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NativeBone
NICE!
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Bad a$$!
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scott nathanson
Sweet rig
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Enjoy it. Its like having an affair of lust with a beautiful woman you hardly know. Somehow it just happens. You are completely smitten. But then as time passes, it gets harder and harder to see her and the phone calls get less and less. You start to realize she is not the "one" you want to spend your life with. Then one sad/happy day you see her hooked up to a truck and driving away. Its heartbreaking and you want to just scream, but … then you look down at your hands and see the stacks of $100 bills. You smile without even thinking and the pain is gone. Things are as they should be you say to yourself.
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devrep
only with you boat whores. some of us buy the right one (or 2) and hang onto stuff.
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Joe Cesario
Monty said:
Enjoy it. Its like having an affair of lust with a beautiful woman you hardly know. Somehow it just happens. You are completely smitten. But then as time passes, it gets harder and harder to see her and the phone calls get less and less. You start to realize she is not the "one" you want to spend your life with. Then one sad/happy day you see her hooked up to a truck and driving away. Its heartbreaking and you want to just scream, but … then you look down at your hands and see the stacks of $100 bills. You smile without even thinking and the pain is gone. Things are as they should be you say to yourself.
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You might be right, however I hope that your wrong! She could be one, the one that never got away. My better half.
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permitchaser
So do you pole that boat? Or fish out of it or just ride around and look pretty
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GoGataGo52__20
Man looks sweet!
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permitchaser said:
So do you pole that boat? Or fish out of it or just ride around and look pretty
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I fish/spearfish out of it, im still outfitting it for offshore spearfishing and trolling. Fixed mount vhf,with gps,dsc. Plb, sea anchor, gun holders. Here's a pic of first trip and first fish , caught it on a topwater Fish Recreation Bass Fish Fishing
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MRichardson
Yes you can love a skiff.
I love that boat and I don't even know it.
Great restore, love that console, seat and hell, everything.
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Damn that's sick!!!! Fills my heart with joy to see another Hobie made beautiful again. What color is that? Guide green?
Where are you located?
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Boneheaded
Worth restoring, they do it all
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MRichardson
I like that rear seat. I have a bench on a small 14' aluminum that could use being raised like that.
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