Oh, BTW, Edson moved to Poulsbo, WA, from what I've been told, and retired there on the water. I drive by the house I was told was his often. There's a HUGE opened engine near the road that's set up like a sculpture. I'll take a picture of it next time I'm near there and post it.
Interesting, and obviously you may be right.
Perhaps Edson bought the Tahiti line from someone else and made it a Bayliner line? Something else to look up in my spare time... <grin>
Thanks for the info and the great post!
It does kind of put a damper on my excitement about the boat, though. I...
If that's from my picture, it's "Tahiti." I have the logos, one is broken. I keep scouring the web for someone who does 3D printing as has new ones for sale.
I hate you.
Can't you guarantee to it be under $1000 or something?
But seriously, just saw that the seats were going to be nearly $300 each, the carpet about the same, and that's not including the motor work, the hull work (gloss coat, hopefully) and a ton other stuff...
<sigh>
Good call. It was in their name when they gave it to me. I need to get hold of their family to transfer the boat and trailer, so that'll take some time. Thanks for the head's up!
This is my second post here on the board, and I'm going to do my best to keep thread on their proper topics, but will provide cross links so people can get the whole picture.
Do let me know if I'm doing things wrong!
https://forums.iboats.com/threads/is-it-worth-fixing-up.750022/ for my first...
Okay, I have a TON of questions and I'm going to try to put them in the correct forums. I'll likely put links to them in this thread, but I moderate other boards and I know how crappy threads can become very quickly.
Back story. This is a '69 (I think, I could look it up) Tahiti, with trailer...