SW Washington Fisherman

[bkmanning]

Hi Guys,

New here! Joined this weekend due to a significant amount of trouble identifying a new project I got myself into.

A group of friends and I work on cars and other things with young guys in the community as a mentoring vehicle. Our current project is a 73 Volvo P1800, but I picked up a donated boat this weekend. Its an all fiberglass runabout from, probably the sixties. I haven't had a chance to search the entire thing for a HIN, so i'm looking for a little help in identifying this thing.

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We plan to clean her up real well, and restore to original condition. Any help in identifying would be greatly appreciated, along with suggestions for what would have been original equipment/colors/etc.

Thanks!

[Helmar]

Hi Guys,

New here! Joined this weekend due to a significant amount of trouble identifying a new project I got myself into.

A group of friends and I work on cars and other things with young guys in the community as a mentoring vehicle. Our current project is a 73 Volvo P1800, but I picked up a donated boat this weekend. Its an all fiberglass runabout from, probably the sixties. I haven't had a chance to search the entire thing for a HIN, so i'm looking for a little help in identifying this thing.

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We plan to clean her up real well, and restore to original condition. Any help in identifying would be greatly appreciated, along with suggestions for what would have been original equipment/colors/etc.

Thanks!

Hi and Welcome aboard.
I know those Volvo engine are next to bullet proof for sure. Had the B-18 engines (still have one in my 20ft Offshore Skagit).
For the boat, I don't recognize it myself and for the most part, send folks over to Fiberglassics database to hunt for some sort of ID on them. They have a pretty large database of boats in which a lot of them were submitted by us on the PNW boats. Might just find her there.
Kind of Bell Boy looking but not sure.
If she is a Bell Boy, Starboard helm, normally right by your right knee would be a tag that is like branded into the inside of the hull. Most of the time they all get painted over.
Looks to be a 16 footer ?