Stainless Steel High Bow Rails,Front Bow Roller,Cross Bollard This Australian built boat has many features to offer the new owner such as The boat has just had a Full Annual Service, Safety Check and now ready to go to its new owner.(Receipts Supplied) They're out there trying to enjoy life, but let me tell you something, people who have boats have problems.FINANCIAL YEAR SALE ON NOW!! Savage 450 Safari 2004 Aluminium Runabout, with Forward Controls and Powered by a Mercury Oil Injected 60 Hp 2-Stroke Outboard with a low 240 Hours. "We hope to meet people with larger boats," McNew said. "We're going to try to find places to stay, but we're taking sleeping bags and tents just in case," said McNew.īoth men said they're looking forward to being out there with the luxury houseboats and yachts that cruise the "Great Loop," a circumnavigation of eastern North America that runs from Florida to the Great Lakes via the Intercoastal Waterway, Chesapeake Bay, Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee rivers, and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. As a backup, they're carrying camping equipment. When possible, they intend to stay at marina resorts and motels. McNew and McClanahan said the time it takes to complete the trip will be determined by how long they have to wait behind commercial barge traffic to lock through. The Tennessee River is impounded by nine dams with navigational locks. "We made it back, and neither one of us had a black eye," McNew said. The boat survived the shakedown cruise, and so did their friendship. While McNew knows boats inside and out, McClanahan is still learning the difference between port and starboard, and bow and stern. Last fall, McClanahan and McNew took the boat on a 130-mile shakedown cruise on the Tennessee River from Kingston to Chattanooga and back. "I've got to keep the aesthetics going," McClanahan said. For his part, McClanahan outfitted the Little Bastard with a new stainless steel steering wheel and a vintage-looking arch that separates the driver from the passenger section. The navigational equipment was McNew's idea. They've installed a marine radio, and they'll have a GPS unit to pinpoint their exact location. The runabout has a brand-new 4-stroke outboard motor and cruises at about 25 miles per hour. Being a film buff, he named it the "Little Bastard" after the silver Porsche Spyder that carried the movie actor James Dean to his grave on Sept. McClanahan purchased the classic runabout two years ago in Owsley, Ky., from a man who kept it in a shed. McClanahan is a district judge in three eastern Kentucky counties, but in the 1970s he operated three small movie theaters, one of them in Cumberland Gap, Tenn. McNew runs a dry dock on Norris Lake near the Union/Claiborne county line that sells, stores and repairs boats. "It leaks about one quart every 24 hours - just enough to dampen the bottom," McNew said. The boat's name is the Little Bastard, and like a lot of boats with rivet construction, it has a tendency to leak. They'll be traveling in an aluminum boat powered by a 30-horsepower outboard motor.
At Kentucky Lake, they may follow a navigation canal and continue to Nashville by way of Lake Barkley and the Cumberland River. They figure it'll take them six to eight days to reach Kentucky Lake.
Ralph McClanahan II and Randall "Turkey" McNew plan to leave Knoxville this morning. That's a long boat ride, especially if the boat happens to be a 16-foot aluminum runabout built in 1969. From its headwaters above Knoxville until it flows into the Ohio River at Paducah, Ky., the Tennessee River stretches about 652 miles.
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