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Tech Talk => Hulls => Topic started by: tahiti mike on March 04, 2008, 10:11:28 AM
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who made the tahiti hulls
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who made the tahiti hulls
tahiti..?
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tahiti..?
REALLY ;D No way, i thought Tahiti made Nordic, Nordic made Bahner, Bahner made Kona, Kona made Kachina, Kachina made OMEGA ;D
2sav >:D
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mine says tahiti all over it expect on the pink it says 85 schineda,everyone says its a tahiti mini cruzer
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who made the tahiti hulls
please be more specific
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mine says tahiti all over it expect on the pink it says 85 schineda
do the numbers match
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with numbers
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with numbers
Whats the letters on the Hull?
2sav
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havent been able to find any josh at jet boat performance said its been painted a few times
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havent been able to find any josh at jet boat performance said its been painted a few times
What year is it? Did you look on the transome right corner unless they filled in the numbers, should be there unless its to old ???
2sav
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85
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85
Thats not to old then it has #'s somewhere, but if Josh cant find em then i would say they were filled in during the painting process.........
Do some old school Paper and a pencil that should bring up the numbers
???
2sav
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look there upper right corner ???
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2sav
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Hey, isn't that Cas's old Tahiti? Shoot him an pm over at banderlog and I bet he could fill you in on some of the history of that boat.
By the way, there's now way that thing was built in '85. It should say Tahiti on the pink, or Schuster, or Bell Inc or Hardin marine, depending on when it was built, ..but not "schineda" what ever the hell that is. ::)
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okay ill do that thanks old rigger
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Well if its not a tahiti you may have to change your name ;) We have an Omega out in front of our shop that could be its twin. Interesting thing it it has original omega tags and gelcoat but the HIN has been filled in and branded/etched with a "home made ID", One can only imagine what happened there ::) .......backfees, lost reg......etc It also originally has a Panther so you never know you could have an Omega. Omega Mike just doesnt have the same ring...
We also had a Charger in that appeared to have the same bottom, different deck though
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My Tahiti ad the id # in a metal tag to the left of the drivers seat on the gunnel, I don't remember it having any on the transom, but I could be wrong.
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id post a pic if i could figure how to make them appear
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Type the first 3 letters of the HIN off of the registration papers into here
http://www.uscgboating.org/recalls/mic_database.htm
and it will tell you the manufacturer it's supposed to be registered under.
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My Tahiti ad the id # in a metal tag to the left of the drivers seat on the gunnel, I don't remember it having any on the transom, but I could be wrong.
You boat might have been built before the 'done in the mold numbers' were required by the coast guard, some time around '73-4 if I remember right. Some shops took longer to comply and ramp up to speed on the numbers thing than others . Our '68 Tahiti just has the tag like your old boat and hotrod56 was kind enough to give me a tag last year off a Tahiti that my dad rigged, has his initinals on it and hangs over my work bench. ;)
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just got off the phone with cas it is a 78 tahiti low profile cruzer.has been brought back in to reg as a home built.cause it had been repoed before he got it.
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I just bought this tahiti hull can't figure what model it is any help would be awesome
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I just bought this tahiti hull can't figure what model it is any help would be awesome
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The toad
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most of those tahiti, kona, hawaiian, etc boats were made by a Bob Schuster back in bellflower, CA. My old tahiti had a placard from "Schuster boats"
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Mines got a schuster plate but I just didn't know what model it was
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originally schuster in bellflower, then later Bell Industries in bellflower
view all of their old brochures here:
http://www.vintagejetboats.com/content.php?183-Tahiti (http://www.vintagejetboats.com/content.php?183-Tahiti)
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Still can't find any pics of that exact hull are they rare or what
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looks like an early tahiti torino. before they did the windshield look in the 70's...
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That's identical to mine mines yellow and black or faded yellow
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Yeah there rare
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I know I can't find any pics of these hulls on the internet
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It's an Executive.
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That's a tahitti torino
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This is my 20' Tahiti Executive. It's the same boat that's in the other pictures. I have the catalogue that came with the boat that calls it an Executive in 72. Did they offer the same style under a different name in another year?
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These are Torinos. If you notice they have a fatter cut to the bow and a cowling look on the deck. They also have horizontal under lines over the more vertical lines that the Executives have.
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That executive I was told was a torino, I owned one years ago however I'm not a pro on these ,they are great looking boats we need old rigger to tell us he worked at tahitti back then, you can try vintage jet boats he's on that site a lot. He seems like a great guy and as far as tahitti boats go his word is gospel
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First up to tahitimms, thank you for posting the old brochure of the executive. I never knew its name, it was called the 22 Offshore in some of the old ads and I assumed that's what it was.It was simply called the Toad at the shop and has nothing to do with the last 2 pictures of mine that you posted and in turn those had nothing to do with the Torino's with the exception of this one...
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This was the first 19 Torino out of the mold and that's me behind the wheel back in '71 or so. I was 15 at the time. It has the same bottom as the other 2 you posted. That bottom was used on at least 7 or 8 different Tahiti's, there's a few real ugly ones for sale right now on CL's but they're too ugly to ride in. One has a really rare Mercuriser 400 jet drive in it.
The original Torino deck was of course a splash of the Sidewinder deck which was on a Tahiti bottom which originated at Glastron which was where the originator of Sidewinder worked as well as having been the brother in-law of Schuster who started Tahiti. Clear as mud huh?
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:)