The really "Old School" boating thread

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So is this #1 Bob?

That's it.!!
That's the best picture I have ever seen of it outside of the one Rudy had.
Bottom doesn't seem all that different than a current GN. Makes me still wonder about the "parallax" ad.
What most don't stop to think about is that was 3+ years before built the 20 ft flat. But then, you can't really face a flat bottom outboard to well. So I guess you build what you NEED, and if you can sell them later as inboards, then that's just a bonus.

If you notice, the deck has no dash rise, no gunnels, just glassed plywood with a slight arch in it. The guy I met in Idaho said he had a Rayson, with no V drive, no shaft hole, with the same the deck.
The Allison deck was pretty flat, but was made up like a normal wood deck. The outboard was really plain jane and kind of crude. It had 3- 75 gal tanks in it, one for each out board, and aircraft type dry break fills. Rudy said they could dump a full load in one minute.