First boat 17' invader with 65 Mercury,Then I rode in a buddy's 18' Taylor,
Bought a 75 Kona Makia 18' with Olds, and reamed that that motor for 2 years. Great starter boat.
Ordered a 76 Jetstar with custom paint (Ontario Orange to match my 70 Corvette) company folded and took delivery of a hull less motor. Put in a 454 jetpac from Indmar Marine. Boat was never right,(probably too much Beer and Weed in the build process) sold it and order a solid black Southwind. Beautiful boat on the trailer, really sucked as a lake boat, couldn't even sit in the seats with wet towels, it was sooo HOT. Sold it and ordered a Wriedt Stinger with a roller 468.
This is getting lengthy so I cut to the chase:
18 Wriedt Maverick, 454 Berkley lake layup
18 Wriedt Maverick, 468 Berkley light layup
73 Hondo flat with 427 sideoiler Ford, crashed the boat and sold the motor for twice what I paid for the boat.
18 Biesmier jet with 427 Chevy (Great boat!)
18 shovel nose Canyon hydro Hemi gearbox 396 Chevy.
1976 Taylor SJ 455 olds
1975 Taylor SS 468 roller motor
21 Sleekcraft SST 454 Chevy (one of 5 race hulls built by Sleekcraft)
1985 Liberator Picklefork (current project on THB website)
and "Plan B" 21' Glastron daycruiser with 460 Ford.