"Red's Gold"
For Sale
Red's  1981 Scimitar  "Red's Gold"   is   For Sale
This scimitar was purchased new  in 1981 from Smiths Marine
in Baltimore Maryland,  it remained in the Baltimore area, and
on the Delaware river,  for 26 years.  The boat was traded in
on the purchase of a bigger, later model boat, by it's original
owner, to  JB Marine, near Chesapeake City, Maryland  in
June 2006.   The boat set in a storage yard for over a year,
during that time the cover had blown off the boat, some parts
had been robbed off the motor,  and it was sitting on a single
axle trailer with a flat tire, no lights, and a broken winch tower.

I bought the boat from JB Marine in September 2007 on a
Saturday, spent the rest of that day and most of the next,
working on the trailer to get it home to Oklahoma City, Ok.
It was a 3241 mile round trip to
First Look at it   September 2007
Chesapeake City, Maryland
The hull of the boat was in great condition, all the
original hardware except the "t" top latches,  the 6
way electric seat was there but the motors wouldn't
work, all other components were there, and even the
original shag carpet.  The gel coat was ok, but faded
pretty bad from sitting outside in the weather, the
back seat frame was rotting and the seat cushions
were soaked with rain water,  the Vinyl was faded.
The trailer didn't really fit the boat, but I put new
tires, bearings, lights, and rigged the winch tower so
it would be safe  for the trip back to Oklahoma City.  
A few pic's after a stop at
the local Car Wash, and
a Serious vacuum job
After the Long Trip home
I was anxious to get it in
the water for a test run. I
took the back seat out,  
installed a battery,  carb,
distributer, and serviced
the out-drive, it fired up
and sounded pretty good
so we took it to the lake.
the Fox wanted to drive it
first,  she done real good,  
here's a video  Click Here
The lake test went pretty
good, then it was time to
go to work on it and make
it pretty,  so I called my
friend at the body shop
My friend at the body shop mixed some rich gold
flake in some automotive clear coat and sprayed the
top-side of the hull, it looked pretty good, but I never
liked the different colors in the flake he added, but I
could live with it a while.  Then I went to work on the
rest of the boat, I built new seat frames, new foam,
had the back seat upholstered, Re-done the front
seats, new frames and foam, removed the electric
seat box and added a pedestal for the drivers seat.
Built a new transom, new stringers, and re-enforced
the stringers with 24 ounce woven roven mat, added
the new floor, injected foam, completely filling the
void under the floor, over-laid the complete floor
with the 24 ounce woven roven mat and ground it all
down smooth, glassed in the side panels,  new carpet
The bottom of the hull had been coated with an
anti-fouling paint that had to come off, with razor
blades, I repainted the bottom with polyurethane
I sold the 357 cid motor out of the boat so I could
build the new 387 cid "stroker" it's been test run, all
is well,  in the boat now, almost ready for a test run.
While the motor was out, I stripped off the old
automotive clear coat that had been sprayed on the
top-side, sanded the original gel coat smooth, and
sprayed a good coat of clear gel coat mixed with
some gold metal flake very close to the original color
of the boat, after the flake was sprayed, I sprayed a
generous 4 more coats of clear gel coat, sanded it
down to a gloss, then polished it out, it looks really
good, and produces a nice sparkle in the sunlight.
Last year, I made a modification to the nose of the
drive,  it made a noticeable difference in the speed
and performance.  This year, before the gel coat
job was finished, I enlarged the exhaust holes in
the transom to accommodate the new 4" stainless
exhaust tube's with the diverters, these tube's and
diverters can easily be removed and just run the
exhaust through the thru-hull tips, but it sure
would be loud.   the backwash preventers are in
the thru-hull tip's, A drunk throwed a brick and
broke the old windshield, I have just recently had
a brand new molded 3/8 thick winshield made
The boat looks great, and is just about ready for a lake test with the new "stroker" motor, but when I get  it
dialed in, I'll be pulling it out, installing the original 260 Mercruiser and drive for the sale.
Click on the Video links below
387cid  440hp 500 pounds torque
The lake test went well, time to go through a prop selection process again, speeds 76 / 78 mph @ 5800rpm