Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby Jake St. John » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:07 pm

My College fraternity brother and roomate's dad had a Super Skeeter. He used to fish the Reservoir when it first filled up. Taught Don Norton and Hal Battle a lot of the lunker holes back then. We always had fun times when we fished together out of that boat.
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby Gumbo » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:10 pm

We flipped and sank one just like that in Bayou Pierre when the river was out back in 93 or 94
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He's comin' back around...
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby fieldt76 » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:28 pm

I'm sure that boat is priceless to you, but I'll give you my first born child for it
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby aweyerman » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:44 pm

I love old boats! Great job!
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby astorey » Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:09 pm

Gumbo wrote:We flipped and sank one just like that in Bayou Pierre when the river was out back in 93 or 94
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Wow! How exactly did it happen if you recall and don't mind sharing..
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby astorey » Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:11 pm

fieldt76 wrote:I'm sure that boat is priceless to you, but I'll give you my first born child for it
My labs may give me a WTH if I did that.....haha!
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby intothetimber » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:38 am

I had this same boat. I gutted it completely though and it was awesome. I got in a tight financially and sold it to another member of DuckSouth. I called him the other night to find out how the boat was working out for him and he told me that someone stole it.....That's a sorry person that would steal from another hunter!

Please keep an eye out for it you see it going down the road. It is all black with no seats.....(The whole boat is covered with LineX)

It's the only one of it's kind. If you should see it stop the guy and ask him how he got it.

I hate it for the guy I sold it to!
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby teul2 » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:10 pm

I got a question for your skeeter rehabers.
The bottom of them is balsa right? If it gets rotten, where the hail do you get that much balsa wood to replace/repair?
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby DUCKAHOLIC » Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:15 pm

teul2 wrote:I got a question for your skeeter rehabers.
The bottom of them is balsa right? If it gets rotten, where the hail do you get that much balsa wood to replace/repair?
From a Balsa tree silly boy
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby KWAKHED » Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:32 pm

Fun rigs for sure. Hunted outta one for about 5 years. You could hide that thing anywhere, but it had a 50hp short shaft on the back. That thing was scary fast!
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby deltadukman » Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:40 pm

KWAKHED wrote:Fun rigs for sure. Hunted outta one for about 5 years. You could hide that thing anywhere, but it had a 50hp short shaft on the back. That thing was scary fast!

Didnt the ole hand that bought it blow the motor up right after he bought it? Scary fast wasnt the word...it would fly...in pitch black dark...seen you do it
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby chs36 » Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:04 am

boat looks good astory. how much time you got in it? and when we gonna put it to use?
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby matt » Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:40 am

Looking good nice job
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby KWAKHED » Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:46 am

deltadukman wrote:
KWAKHED wrote:Fun rigs for sure. Hunted outta one for about 5 years. You could hide that thing anywhere, but it had a 50hp short shaft on the back. That thing was scary fast!

Didnt the ole hand that bought it blow the motor up right after he bought it? Scary fast wasnt the word...it would fly...in pitch black dark...seen you do it
Yep. The fisrt time he took it out.
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Re: Vintage Skeeter revived from the dead...

Postby astorey » Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:20 pm

teul2 wrote:I got a question for your skeeter rehabers.
The bottom of them is balsa right? If it gets rotten, where the hail do you get that much balsa wood to replace/repair?
I believe the earlier year models had wood in the floor. This dude is straight glass......

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