Post your ghetto boats you've owned

I've realized I've been on here 11 years now and found some old pics. This was my first boat that I purchased on my own. My family had a brand new 89 Nautique 2001 and then a new 92 Ski Brendalla when I was a teenager into waterskiing but they don't count. When I went away to college my parents sold the boat and I didn't get a pull for quite a while.

These pics are from 2000 or so. It was 1976 17' Glaston with a 115 hp Merc. I bought it for $2,000, it had no reverse for the two seasons I owned it, I was towed in countless times, I made a pole from an old street sign on the side of the road but we had a blast!

Check out the sweet wake and water ski rope.

Wow Jay, those are some classic pics! Where's the ones of the Dixie???

Awesome. I'll have to post some pics of the 78 fiberform I learned on
Still have it too!

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This is an 86' I/O thundercraft. For some reason I thought it needed a tower and I wanted tunes so I wired an amp and cd player into the lil bitty glovebox and built the fiberglass box for the 4 6x9s. They were louder than my pro 60s and km650 that I have on my Tigè. Hate to say it but did all that last winter and sold the boat at the beginning of this summer and upgraded! Talk about a ****ty wakeboard wake lol

I just LOL'd at the name "Making Panties Wet", pretty awesome.

My second ghetto boat was the 1987 Dixie Skier direct drive. I had a homemade tower and Frankenstein ballast system, I owned it for 8 years or so but didn't use it much towards the end because I was always on other people's boats. Ryan I have a pic of you doing a backroll behind it, I need to scan it, ha.

Just realized I should have posted this in the boat forum.

There she is! Jay, scan the pic because I don't think I've ever seen it.

A sweet 1980 ish Wilker that I bought from a co - worker for a cool 1000$ Didn't have reverse, was in very rough shape. But she took you out and brought you back in!

1976 Reinell TriHull. 100HP 2 stroke. Sweet boat! Big upgrade over the past 7 years!

This is my first boat. I loved it for all of one year before I jumped up. I remember having people piled all over this thing.

i bought the boat 882001 on the left 10 years ago. bought the sport nautique on the right sold the 2001. kept the sport for two or three years bought back the 2001 for nothing and sold the sport. so does that count as my 3rd boat? haha

1989 Sea Ray 160. 3.0L Mercrusier. First boat; bought in 2000, sold last summer 4 days after buying our Malibu. Our '01 Sunsetter VLX is better in every way possible, expect it drinks a bit more fuel. Bought the Sea Ray in 2000 for $4800; sold her last year for $4000. In between there I have to put a brand new crate motor in her (about $2200 with everything to convert to current style 3.0L) and some other maintenance items, but was a very cost effective boat overall.