11/29/2022 0 Comments Bass Cat Boats By Serial Number![]() ![]() Their aluminum boat lineup has a size and application-specific boat for just about every hobby and activity. They are the original all-welded boat and have been building them for 50 years. Xpress Boats tourĪ couple weeks ago I toured the Xpress Boats/Veranda Pontoon plant in Hot Springs, Arkansas and was blown away with the detail and precision of the boats. ![]() I like to dig deep into how each boat is built and know them inside and out. Some collect cars, motorcycles or antiques, but I would rather work on a boat. I read every manual, rig my own boats and some say I would rather work on them than fish out of them. Just about all of today’s boats are built well, ride nice and look good but determining “how good” can be significant. Spending hard-earned money on a boat is much more than features, seats, sparkle and how it looks pulled down the road or across the water structure and durability have a lot to do with it as well. It can solidify your thoughts about the purchase or change them. If you are in the process of buying a new boat, taking a tour of the manufacturing plant isn’t mandatory but can be a huge differentiator. When most inspect the outside of a boat, they look at the cosmetics such as fit, finish and color I tend to look at stringers, strakes, gussets and transoms. Performance is important to each too but ride and features can be the real difference noted by the buyer first. Materials, hull layout, level flotation, colors and how they are put together are similar but each has specific differences that make their brands stick out. I have been to all of the aforementioned facilities at one time or another over the last few years and it is neat to see how similar they actually are but each has things that make them unique. All that leads to this question, does anyone have any idea what year or model would have been assembled with the block marked as 50.I have been to most of the top boat builder’s factories and have watched the care and precision in building Ranger, Skeeter, Bass Cat, Triton and Phoenix. Just tonight I found two online with the double dots at the 5th frets. That led me to look over images of old Arias. I finally found an old Aria with the open book headstock, copied after Gibson. ![]() I have poured over images online for many hours. This guitar has double dots at the 5th fret as well as the normal 12th fret. But one detail kept throwing the Gibson people, and me, off. The binding and markings look like an old Gibson. I first thought, as did a lot of other people, that it was an old Gibson as it has the "open book headstock." It has an adjustable bridge. No one has been able to tell me what this guitar brand is as that number on the block is the only markings. It has no name on it and only has the numbers 50.8 18 in black on the block in the sound hole. My son gave me a fantastic looking old acoustic guitar that he found at a yard sale. ![]()
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