Boat Identification

If that is a 90 hp on the back, could be a bit on the hairy side and certainly over engined for that size of boat. I would look at trading it for something around 60 hp max.

It might give you the trill factor on a calm day but very easy to over cook it and end up arse over tit.
 
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is that what budgies get when they are excited ? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Agree 90 too big and 60 plenty.

I remember seeing something like this in Dunnoon about 20 years ago so could be wrong but I think it is a Mariner 16
 
Yep that's whats needed.
60 ish with T/T
"Trim andTrill"
Had the same set up for My first boat way back.
65 HP 3 cyl Suz.
Made it a ski boat, fishing boat alround fun boat.
SWMBO says "Don't know why you ever sold it used that boat more than any of the other stuff you've bought never know when your happy thats all we ever needed gettiong into debt with all your Grand ideas your on other peoples boats all the time fixing screwing never get time to use your own don't know why you bother just look at the state of the garden the shed roofs leaking and we need new curtains promised us a none boaty holiday last year that never happened blah blah blah" /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Why are they always right?
alandav123 Welcome to the Forum!
 
This a Pilot 590, I think yours is a Pilot 520, we had an evinrude 70, and then a evinrude 90, on ours, good boats, but wet in a chop, you will regret throwing the dodger away.
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Those moulds were used by many manufacturers during the 70s and 80s. Different builders sold this boat as a pilot 520, Nab17 Dory, Mariner 17, and lots of other names.

Some were bult with a double skin, inner and outer hull with the gap foam injected. Others were single skin with glassed-in plywood floor

Mariner 17 was rated by manufacturer to 85hp, some others were a bit less. I ran one of these hulls (double skin hull, open centre console with no cabin) for many years with a Merc 90hp in-line 6 and it was fine, and I now have one (also double skin, custom built) with a Merc 125hp and it's fine too. You cannot use top speed in rpugh seas of course, as the cathedral hull slams more than a deep V, but if you drive it sensibly it is fine with 125hp in my experience

BUT, mine had strong transoms. You need to check yours is good. Not just so it can handle a big engine at sea, but so it can take the weight of a big engine when bouncing over potholes on the road
 
I have taken some other photos of her in the water to show how she is lying, also some pictures of the front.

lastly there are a couple of longer distance shots of an almost identical boat in Arbroath harbour that has a Mercury75 4 stroke. Its the samw weight as the mariner 4 stroke as the other 15 HP comes from larger carb jets. This other boat was instrumental in fitting the 90HP mariner to mine as a boat like this can seemingly take a motor of that size.

Thanks for all the helpful replies and useful info on the boat.

Regards Alan in Arbroath.

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Hah! See what I mean about lots of manufacturers using the same hull - that has to be one of the most copied hull moulds ever. All three boats in your picture here have the same hull

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Here's one of mine:

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I had not noticed that they are indeed the same hulls. I just assumed they were different because they look different up above.
Thats a nice stand your boat is on there, I could have done with something like that when I antifouled mines recently.

Regards Alan
 
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