Splash!

[Mike36c]

My friends Clark & Connie got thier Christmas wish on the 23rd, after countless hours of work, 2 years and 2 months on the hard, she floats! The refit included hurricane Frances repair (huge hole starboard side but she didn't sink) new Cummins QSM11-670hp w/ 1.75:1 zf's, shafts, struts, props, new 8" exhaust from turbo to transom by Marine Exhaust in Riviera Beach FL. New Glendinning 3 station electronic controls, new Furuno NAVNET v2 w/ 72 mile array, SAT TV, etc.
On the house we widened the and stretched the bridge, added a new console w/pod for single lever controls plus a built-in cooler port side. All new salon windows with a custom sliding door, new fiberglass salon floor, new a/c's, complete new 220v & 12v electrical panels and all new wiring (AC & DC), plus much more.

On the afternoon of the 23rd we took her for a brief ride, here are some quick numbers: 5.5kts at idle on ONE engine, 22kts@1650rpm, 26kts@ 1900rpm, at WOT she hit the governor @ 2350rpm and 33kts, no one bothered to look at % load because she was haulin A$$! Captain Clark has owned her for 23 years and had one big . I will post more pics (engine room, cockpit, bridge, etc.) when things get cleaned up. Merry Christmas!

 

[Boss Lady]

Now that is a boat! I like the color too.

 

[nor'easter]

WOW! What a looker, and with great #'s to boot. I missed it, but is she a seies 1 46? Send the congrats along....what an xmas gift.
Paul

 

[34Hatt]

How can I exchange my xmas gifts for one of those
Sweet looking boat send my best to the Happy Capt

 

[Calcutta]

Wow! I can't wait to check this beauty out firsthand...love those windows!Mike, will she be in Stuart for the remainder of the winter?

 

[MarioG]

WOW! absolutely beautiful!

 

[Spellbound]

Congrats to Clark and Connie! Use to fish beside them in Boca Grande when he tarpon fished "Funny Feeling" years ago. Tell them Toby gives thumbs up and looks forward to seeing them somewhere in the islands.

 

[hunshatt]

Awesome. More pic's please. I'm gonna need insperation
Tim

 

[UNIQUE_NAME]

maybe i'll see something like that at a boat show. NOT.
great boat.


i keep telling myself:

the days are now getting longer, we will launch soon...
the days are now getting longer, we will launch soon...
the days are now getting longer, we will launch soon...

jim

 

[Mike36c]

The boat is a 1974 series one 45. Here's pic of the temporary repaired damage, the hole went right down to the waterline. When Clark went check on her at Walker's Cay after the hurricane water was ankle deep in the engine room and both pumps had burnt up. She was almost lost.

This poor series one 45 the "Dutchess II" didn't make it.

 

[yachtsmanbill]

YIKES !!! This was my "neighbor" in NOLA last May ws

 

[jim rosenthal]

They are still worth saving, if you love these boats and don't mind years of work and spending a few kilobucks. Although when they go down that far, there's an awful lot of wiring to replace....

Mike, the boat looks great. That would have been my choice of engines as well.

 

[REBrueckner]

Reborn with classy color, styling and big engines. Hooray!! Happy New Year!!!

 

[Boss Lady]

Please keep us informed about the QSM engines and hopefully the lack of problems with them.

 

[LBDboater]

Any of those updates pictures? I absolutely love this boat! Enough to go back and search it up from 2-3 months ago!

 

[egaito]

Incredible! What a great refit.

What took out the neighboring boat? You don't normally see Hatt's lost battles with pilings without taking a few of them out with them.

 

[scottwvyc]

If someone told me they were going to paint their hull that color I would have thought they were nuts. Boy would I have been wrong!!! She looks great!!
Congrats

 

[Mike36c]

Incredible! What a great refit.

What took out the neighboring boat? You don't normally see Hatt's lost battles with pilings without taking a few of them out with them.

It happened at Walker's Cay in the Bahamas. There were only a handful of boats in the marina at the time (hurricane Frances), a 50' hatteras next door lost a bow line and his pulpit ended up on one my buddy's bow piling. The rocking of the 50' hat pulit worked his bow line off the piling sending his 45' into a short concrete piling. She came REAL close to sinking. As for the color I was one of folks who said " You want to paint it WHAT! ", I told him he will need to change the boat name from the "Funny Feelin Too" to the "Funny Lookin Too". I was wrong, the boat looks great. More pics coming soon....

 

[LBDboater]

PLEASE.... I'd love to see the new pictures if you have any. I love the look of this boat, and it really has turned me on to the Hatteras sport fishers as much as the motoryachts!

 

[Mike36c]

I'll stop by snap a few more this afternoon.