Ok. Here's the story. Needed a beater boat to pull towables about 6 summers ago. Found this 1986 CHarger 16DL on craigslist with a 1984 Merc 150 for $1600. Took it for a spin and confirmed 58 with a handheld GPS. I don't have any pics of the boat when I bought it but imagine this: 4.5 foot homemade rusty ski pylon bolted to a 4 foot long 2x12 screwed to the floor board, homemade plywood bulkhead crudely glassed in 6" back from the dash, plywood glassed/ screwed into the gunwhales with stairway handrails running front to back to serve as "oh shit" handles, four plastic folding jon boat fishing seats for the occupants, and all painted with flat grey auto primer. A real beauty, but for $1600, I figured I could use it all summer, junk the hull, and sell the motor and recover most, if not all, of my investment. Well.....I loved the way the ugly little thing handled(I've never had a speedboat before this) and I made the mistake of imagining how the boat COULD look and BAM! Fell in love. So the boat sat for a while and decided last year it was time to make it happen. Found this forum googling "charger 16DL" trying to find pictures of other people's DL's so I could figure out how the boat interior was supposed to look. Yeah, I know, when you look at the boat's current state, the interior seems to be an impossibly distant concern, but it serves as motivation for me. Anyway, Littlecharger was very helpful and obliged me with several pics of his immaculate DL and I was on my way. I call it the snowbird's orphan because how else did a Canadian speedboat get to Central Florida? So I'm off to photobucket to post pictures. When you see them, just don't laugh. I have a vision.......or a maybe a halucination!
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