I was also reading some of the other posts, cool site. I noticed where hotrod56 said Tahiti's weren't built with full stringers...as a gerneral rule that's true, but Tahiti was also a custom shop so to speak. If the customer wanted it, they could get it if they wanted to pay. I'm talking about old , Schuster owned Tahiti, not the later Tahiti who built the boat that was posted by someone that had full stringers. Lets not forget, it was Tahiti that started the v-bottom jet boat thing, there were other stabs at jet boats to be sure, but none in a v bottom and none cought on like little little Tahiti. And people raced the snot out of them too, we even had one competing in offshore racing, a 23 Toad, but it was a Tahiti jet, race by Jake Gilbreth of Gil marine fame.
All but a few of the very first 19s above had full length stringers. I can remember 3 models that were like that at Hawaiian, all other had the stubbys.
