What kind of boat is this?

[irwin9]

Any idea what kind of boat this is? Princecraft surfer, GW Invader? Something else?
Thanks for your help

 

[irwin9]

Havent seen any with the little window, is it aftermarket?

 

[BMcF]

It does not look anything like the 13' GW Invader I once had.....not ringing any bells otherwise.

 

[Mr Efficiency]

Is that a 'surf-board' bow ? Certainly doesn't seem to be much under it !

 

[Ike]

Don't know who built this one. This looks like a design that was very popular in the 80's but financially was a loser. So the companies making them kept going out of business and selling the molds . It was made by at least a half dozen, maybe more, companies.

 

[PAR]

I don't know if it was a financial loser so much as falling victim, to the glut on the market in that era and being inferior to the yet to be invented PWC, which put these things out to pasture pretty quickly. In any case, only a very small percentage of this hull type where pre 1973, so a HIN should be available on the upper right side of the transom. The first 3 digits of the HIN will tell you who made it.

 

[irwin9]

Thanks for the advice, I gather all these little boat molds have changed hands over the years and may have been tweeked from one manufacturer to the next

 

[PAR]

What does the HIN say?

 

[irwin9]

It looks like there isn't one or it has been painted over. Ill have to go back out where its stored to take a better look.

 

[PAR]

What does the title and/or registration say for the HIN?

 

[dcfrench]

Checkmate Playmate 1970ish

 

[Titan113]

It's a Princecraft Surfer, with a production run of only three years....72,73,74.

Mine is a 72, and have had it 30 years. It's been sitting for the past 15 years, in the process of a complete restoration.