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the old grews were built very well, anything from the early 90's back would be worth perserving. my brother in law worked for suzuki for a few years, they had grew build them a challanger clone to test the big V6's on - here is a link i had totally forgotten about...

grew had several owners over the years, they built boats by slickcraft in the 70's (which later became pursuit/tiara yachts). later they built under licence from chris craft - mid eighties to early ninety's. they went bankrupt in the 90's, and the owner of cutter boats bought the name and...

how about some pics - our familly had a 68 186 laraon lapline. solid boat. sold it 10 years ago now.

went down yesterday with kids in tow, i didnt see as much as i would have liked, but we toured the sea ray booth extensively, the line up looked pretty good, and spent a fair bit of time at cobalt. both lines looked good. the wakeboard show was excellent as well. loved the 1650hp merc engine...

heading down on sunday for the first time in 5 years. looking forward to it.

and now the greavette property is a boston pizza :(

be careful of those gasket sets, we had a problem with auto gasket sets and marine engines because they are freshwater cooled, they'd rust out the steel on the head gaskets causing leaks - not good. you only use one type of fastener on swim platforms - stainless, anything else will rust off...

153 is the model for the boat, i believe it measured around 15ft 3in. i am using my old memory here, but believe it was rated for 70hp. not sure what other info you are looking for, but ask away.

sorry - no pic on this end just a bunch of characters.

i worked for a sea ray dealer for several years, they kept their parts for 5 years as required by US law (as i was told anyway), i think that boat is much older than 5 years so, chances are you'll have to have something custom made.

i can help - but not without pictures! my family had a couple of sunflashes.

best bet is to have it made locally. very few companies made their own canvas.

depends on the condition, but probably no more than 2 - 3k if it was in good shape.

likely the problem is the trim limit switch on the outdrive has failed. have a look, the wires have probably rotted off, your boat is old enough to have that issue. part is sold as a set with sender and limit switch and is around 100.

plywood is much stronger, and proper encapsulated, will be water proof. as far as cheaper, i think, dollar for dollar, you'll find plywood cheaper - don't worry about going with marine grade, g1s or sheathing grade is fine, you're covering it with glass anyway. on the boat i am restorting, it...

well, i don't know if you noticed this or not, but chris opened his cottage this weekend and so far we had snow twice this week, enough for a "snow day" today. coincidence - i think not. chris i beg you - please close your cottage!!!!! :rof:

so nice to see the snow again wasn't it? i was out at the cottage friday night and the ice was just leaving the lake - should be gone by now.

starbrite bilge cleaner works awesome, we always used Kleen Flo's engine shampoo, it was acutally a pretty good degreaser, just put it in a spray bottle. i've used castrol's super clean which is less than environmentally friendly, works awesome, but you'll want to make sure you hose things down...

i'd make sure you put some type of bracing of some kind underneath - aluminum plate or something, i have seen poles pull out of floors. i will probably do a deck mount when i get to that point, with aluminum plating under all mounting points to strengthen everything.

can't imagine they will quit producing, didn't know that teleflex was in the medical business. i understand why that decision was made - lets see....which industry has more potential boats or medicine!