Look at what the cat's brought home

[mrlou40]

A few weeks ago Doug Reed and my self went around out in the middle of nowhere in S.W. Washington to a few barns and found 3 boats.
The best was a Sorenson DSH in great shape (would look great with a Tohatsu on the back) the second best was a 20SSH Karelsen that needs a little work but the bottom is in great shape and the 3rd was this Jones and I'm thinking Ted Jones FOH. I dont know much about this boat and am looking for any clues about it. It is 12'6" with a 75" afterplane.( that makes the sponson's about 6' long) and it has a 32" bottom. From the looks of things as the transom has been cut down the last motor on it was (guessing here) 500-700 Konig.
any way take a look and let me know if you have any ideas about this one.
Thanks,
Carl Lewis

[Bill Blackwell]

Carl,

Your killing me. First your son emails me last night with a teaser about a Jones cabover, and now this! Do you have any pics? Or how about a boat number?

I know a boat builder that could do a really great restoration.

BRB

[mrlou40]

Bill, Sorry the pics were not on the origional post check it again.
Sorry no boat numbers, belive me I wish there were, as it would make things easier. As far as what to do with it... well Dylan thinks we should pull it behind the truck when it snows around here giving rides to the other neighborhood kids and Im thinking about the ever popular Newberg old boat bonfire.

Carl

[sponsonhead]

Jones or G&H?

Carl,

From my eye here that boat looks more like an old Goff-Hagness to me.

Look at the pics of Sam's Jones, and think of Culley's old boat: Jones always had that little fibreglass nose piece in the front, and didn't do a half wood cowl for his windshield mounting.

Also, the deck lines over the back of the sponsons are straight, rather than curved--a straight "cutaway" was a trademark G&H look. Finally the Chicken wings on the chines look like they're right off the G&H shape templates.

Think of your old Yosemite Sam BSH--this looks more like that than any Ted Jones outboard I ever saw.

The real question is what to the sponsons look like? Are they square-ish? If so, it's gotta be a Goff-Hagness.

R-19

[mrlou40]

Pat,
That was my thought also as the decks and sponsons look like the old GH hydro that I used to have, however I dont think Goff or hagness were around when this POS was built.Think of Culleys boat and it has the ron Jones fiberglass cowl this one is wood, also all of the old GH boats that I remember had high cockpit sides.
Sam, wish mine looked like yours..........
any one got a good old 6 we can put on the back???????

Carl

[johnweis]

Looks like GH boat to me too!

Carl you thought this might be my C hydro, but I don't think so. I bet I know who it belonged to and I need to drag out the old Propeller handbooks and look it up. GH boats are easily identifiable as only Larry could make a plywood deck so good you couldn't feel the joints between the pieces. They all had those fin chines and see through cowls.

John Weis

[bill van steenwyk]

builder possibilities?

any chance this could be something (early effort) that Jim Daniels/Bob Rhoades built. I had two of their boats in the early 70's and except for
not having a plastic see thru cowl/windshield there are a lot of similarities.
I think the two I had were the only two to make it east of the rocky mtns
although I could be mistaken. They were very good handling boats for
500/700 at that time, and Bob set numerous records at Yelm and also
won the John Ward race at DePue which at that time was one of the
most prestigous 500 ( C Hydro ) races in the world. There were a few boats
capable of faster speeds on the straightaway but nothing at the time that
could go around the course as fast. You never had to back off, and I
passed many of the best outfits of the time around the outside in the
corners with my ZAK 500 and 700 Konig, as did Bob with both his 500 and 700.