Throwback Thursday
Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:35 am
Does anyone have one of these? This one has had about 2 feet taken off of it and now does duty as surf boat and occasional cruiser. What is it? Scroll down.
The first production squirtboat if I'm not mistaken. Arc.
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The first production squirtboat if I'm not mistaken. Arc.
Re: Throwback Thursday
Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:14 pm
Do tell...
Re: Throwback Thursday
Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:23 pm
Sure looks like an Arc.
It looks a lot more "surfy" than I remember. That sharp and low edge in the stern looks like it would be a handful on the river. That un-pigmented fiberglass is definitely consistent with the Arc's I ever saw though and surfing waves was a big reason to have a squirt boat at the time.
Someone see if they can get Jimmi to pop in and confirm.
This brings back memories for me for sure. Back when the real squirt boaters in the Southeast would hang out at Cats Pajamas and Double Trouble / Jump rock on the Ocoee in their Pro Jets I was just finishing High School and had an Arc. I longed for the lower volume of the real squirt boats and cut out a section of the deck and made this god awful fiberglass mess of it by draping resin saturated cloth over the area to get a dished out section. This was complimented by my toe bumps that consisted of dixie cups underneath that I put there to kind of mold around. It looked just like you would expect, pretty stupid and non functional. Ha Ha. Memories. Must have been around 1990 or so.
Edit: Johng, doing some quick math using the cinder blocks as scale looks about 9.3 ft. (so perhaps 11.3 originally) Does that sound about right? Put a tape measure on it just for science.
It looks a lot more "surfy" than I remember. That sharp and low edge in the stern looks like it would be a handful on the river. That un-pigmented fiberglass is definitely consistent with the Arc's I ever saw though and surfing waves was a big reason to have a squirt boat at the time.
Someone see if they can get Jimmi to pop in and confirm.
This brings back memories for me for sure. Back when the real squirt boaters in the Southeast would hang out at Cats Pajamas and Double Trouble / Jump rock on the Ocoee in their Pro Jets I was just finishing High School and had an Arc. I longed for the lower volume of the real squirt boats and cut out a section of the deck and made this god awful fiberglass mess of it by draping resin saturated cloth over the area to get a dished out section. This was complimented by my toe bumps that consisted of dixie cups underneath that I put there to kind of mold around. It looked just like you would expect, pretty stupid and non functional. Ha Ha. Memories. Must have been around 1990 or so.
Edit: Johng, doing some quick math using the cinder blocks as scale looks about 9.3 ft. (so perhaps 11.3 originally) Does that sound about right? Put a tape measure on it just for science.
Re: Throwback Thursday
Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:52 pm
8' 9 1/2" You were pretty close. It's definitely an Arc. I bought it new in '84 after my first one (heavy lay-up fiber-lastic they called it) was stolen off the top of my truck. a This one is a pretty light lay-up.
The initial chop was to remove a section from about the knee area through the stern. I surfed it like that for a couple of years, then decided to shorten the bow to make it surf choppy sloppy conditions better without pearling. First I cut the deck footprint to length and shape and then cut the hull into fingers to create the bow profile; stitched the fingers up with wire and seamed them together. It's pretty ugly up close because I didn't care about cleaning it up cosmetically, but it works pretty well.
The initial chop was to remove a section from about the knee area through the stern. I surfed it like that for a couple of years, then decided to shorten the bow to make it surf choppy sloppy conditions better without pearling. First I cut the deck footprint to length and shape and then cut the hull into fingers to create the bow profile; stitched the fingers up with wire and seamed them together. It's pretty ugly up close because I didn't care about cleaning it up cosmetically, but it works pretty well.
Re: Throwback Thursday
Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:15 pm
Yeah- the Arc- bit of history... I damaged both shoulders trying to cartwheel that thing. Conspicuously be footbumps too.....