Herters Delux Flying Fish 58 16'

[Seanfromseattle]

Check out the fins on this boat!

Going to be relisted.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/?cmd=...WAX%3AIT#v4-39

[Tim McCrain]

This may be heresy, but I just don't get the appeal of these things. Even if you like the outrageously out-of-proportion fins, the rest of the boat is not exactly a stunning achievement in design. Take away the fins and the (also out-of proportion) castings and what's left?

Yuck.

[Sammamish1]

I do like the one that looks like a 59 Chevy, can't recall the name tho.

Obviously, those fins are designed to stabilize the boat when leaping out of the water; preventing dangerous yaw while airborne... similar to the purpose of tailfins on real flying-fish!

:Bigdriving1:

[Seanfromseattle]

Yeah I'm not a big fan either of huge fins, and they do have some practicality issues, but like fins on an old caddy, they look cool and are certainly different...

[Tim McCrain]

I do like the one that looks like a 59 Chevy, can't recall the name tho.

You're thinking of the Reinell (I forget the model) and you're right, that is a cool boat.

[Tim McCrain]

Yeah I'm not a big fan either of huge fins, and they do have some practicality issues, but like fins on an old caddy, they look cool and are certainly different...

I agree that the boats with fins like the old Caddys, that are a cohesive part of the entire design (like the Reinell Jack mentioned above) are cool. I don't have anything against fins in general, but this particular boat looks like they just glued those huge things on there without any attempt to make them a part of the overall design. I've seen plenty of big fins that were cool, but these ... not so much.

I better shut up before I tick someone off, I guess ... Somewhere, somebody thinks this is the coolest boat ever. At least that price would indicate that.

[BruceDrake]

it could be worse

I'll let the picture speak for itself

http://abbotsford.en.craigslist.ca/boa/2660978338.html

[Sammamish1]

That annual bathtub race is a classic. It can have more rescues than finishers depending on the weather. It can get pretty ghastly out there in a fifty mile an hour bathtub. Screwy1

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78GvAvxbikA&feature=related"]Bathtub Races.mp4 - YouTube[/ame]

[Bob Bobbers]

rough ride

not sure which would be rougher ride in that water..the bathtub racers or an old skagit! LOL

[Helmar]

not sure which would be rougher ride in that water..the bathtub racers or an old skagit! LOL

I agree, the ol girls do ride like a barn door with a motor on them. I know, I have several of the skagits.

[Helmar]

This may be heresy, but I just don't get the appeal of these things. Even if you like the outrageously out-of-proportion fins, the rest of the boat is not exactly a stunning achievement in design. Take away the fins and the (also out-of proportion) castings and what's left?

Yuck.

I agree, Yuck.
I went back and looked at the "Starting" price of $3500 bucks.

I think if this poor fellow works some place were they have a drug rehab program, that he had better check himself into it.

Some things, well just never make it out of that Yuck mode. :TwoCents1:

[GregJ]

Where the hell would I mount the downriggers.

[Seanfromseattle]

Tim, No I think that boat is basically ugly and impractical too. It looks like they were trying to corner the "biggest" fins market. But that being said - that it's an ugly, unpractical design - it's still cool. Having that boat restored, or even as a rat-boat, would be cool, if for no other reason than for all the great conversations it would start. If I had 40+ acres and unlimited time & money, I could see taking her home and naming her "Ugly Duck"! But now I've got to get me a racing bathtub! I can put it right next to my snorkeling toilet...

[Karl]

Those aren't fins, they're flippers! But they're still cool.