My 1958 Blue Star Super Chief 14, highly modified into a Flats skiff. Riveted, Vee-bow, rounded chines, flat stern. I cut 50 pounds off the skiff, removed the center seat, cut the gunwales down to just 2-1/2 inches above the seats, put on a 1/2 inch ply deck. Weighs about 350 pounds, goes 22 mph with just me, 20 with two. Yamaha 15 4-stroke. No poling platform, as I’m almost 80! Trying to post a pic. TexasJim No luck
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Hey @TexasJim - that photo didn’t come through - eager to see it!
Try again. I kept hammering and the pic shows below my post. Thanks.
I don’t see a pic yet. Was it one of the year models with the fins. I would have had to keep the fins. You see the old v aluminum boats around but I haven’t seen one modified yet. Should work.
Chip
Wonder why I can see my pic, but others can’t? TXJM: No fins. I’ve been flats & marsh fishing TIN STAR for five years. I made a jack plate, and can motor in about ten inches of water. Blue Star switched to fiberglass before they folded in the 60’s. Jim
There she is! Pics worked this time! Nice vessel, sir!
Nice job.
Nice!
Sweet little tinny!