Jim, I was just lookin' at your pictures and the thought came to me, we don't have to have a 21 foot bass boat with 200hp to be on the water and catch fish. I would love to have one of my dads old boats and motors to enjoy. I remember old outboard names like a Martin 60, a Scott-Atwater, an old Mercury that was green, had the word "lightning" on the side. And old plywood boats, and junkie old aluminum john boats, even renting old cypress boats at the fish camps, bring your own motor, rent a boat for a dollar a day. Man all that was way over 60 years ago!
Treefarmer
Jim, I was just lookin' at your pictures and the thought came to me, we don't have to have a 21 foot bass boat with 200hp to be on the water and catch fish. I would love to have one of my dads old boats and motors to enjoy. I remember old outboard names like a Martin 60, a Scott-Atwater, an old Mercury that was green, had the word "lightning" on the side. And old plywood boats, and junkie old aluminum john boats, even renting old cypress boats at the fish camps, bring your own motor, rent a boat for a dollar a day. Man all that was way over 60 years ago!
Treefarmer
Yeah, I remember those days. I think my dad found this one hung up on some trees after high water one year. He pulled it loose and turned it over to dump all the water out and we drug it back to the landing. When no one claimed it he took it home. Back then it didn't have any hull numbers so there was no way of telling who it belonged to. Before that he would rent the old wooden ones on the Ochlockonee at the fish camp and head up the river to camp and fish. I remember me and my brother having to lug his old Scott-Mculloch 9hp down to the water. I still have that motor in my garage. I had it running one time and cleaned it up good. It looked great but the coil went out.
I used to work on old antique motors back when I had time to do it. I've had a couple of the green 10hp Mercury Hurricanes and a 5hp Atlas Royal. I sold those to a couple of fellas a few years back because they were just sitting. I currently have a couple of 3.6hp Corsairs and a couple of 3.6hp Champions. I have one of the Champions running. It'll fly too! Here's a picture:
