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We do not know much of the history of this boat. It was purchased three years ago from Ray Hudson in Montana. History before that is unknown. It has an epoxy finsh that is in decent shape. Looks to have been stored in side and has been done so since our purchase. I will see if I have any more pictures, if not I will take some in the next day or so.
david
I sold mine to a John Wise in Oregon in 1966 for $95. As a raceboat it was lousy; slow, bad turning, glued to the water. I ate Region 10 roostertails running in 12th place or sometimes a hard-fought 10th place for a season. I bought a new Karelsen BSH in '66 and learned what a real raceboat was like, wonderful! Had to sell the Jupiter to make room for the new boat, but hated to do it, because as bad a boat as it was (it pitched me out in the first and second heats of my first race), it was my first hydro, I'd built it myself, and it was beautiful in my eyes. I wish I had kept it, because I eventually learned enough that I could have corrected all of its faults. Well, I still have the plans (hmmm, maybe I should find somebody with a good converted 20H and trade him a B Loop or Anzani for it . . . ).
I sold mine to a John Wise in Oregon in 1966 for $95. As a raceboat it was lousy; slow, bad turning, glued to the water. I ate Region 10 roostertails running in 12th place or sometimes a hard-fought 10th place for a season. I bought a new Karelsen BSH in '66 and learned what a real raceboat was like, wonderful! Had to sell the Jupiter to make room for the new boat, but hated to do it, because as bad a boat as it was (it pitched me out in the first and second heats of my first race), it was my first hydro, I'd built it myself, and it was beautiful in my eyes. I wish I had kept it, because I eventually learned enough that I could have corrected all of its faults. Well, I still have the plans (hmmm, maybe I should find somebody with a good converted 20H and trade him a B Loop or Anzani for it . . . ).
I love the look of that boat. I recently bought an original set of plans, so that I could pull them out every so often and just look at it.
I swear I am going to hurl this devil-possessed POS (laptop) against the nearest piece of concrete I find, despite having just paid a guy near $400 to get it going again. I laboriously composed a long answer here, only to have it vaporized when I hit SEND. I would be delighted, overjoyed, to go back to 1965 and my poor old Jupiter, to a world without personal computers (among a lot of other over-sold technological "improvements").
What I said was that my Jupiter might have been worse than others. I said a lot more, but . . . screw it!
With a few more pix from a few more angles, I could likely tell if the boat for sale was mine. Aw, screw that too.
Jason
I sent you some more pictures. Here is one more. In the picture are two of the Speedliner runabouts that we have for sale. One is an A/B and the other is a C/D
David
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