Newbie CheckMate owner

[dingelbarries]

Hey all just bought my first CheckMate, A 1978 Trimate II with a 115 Johnson. It seems to be in quite good shape for its age. I live in north central PA where we dont have a lot of water bodies or a real long boating season, I believe this to be the reason for the boats lonjevity. It has real solid floors, the upholstery appears to be origional with only a couple small corner rub throughs. (I think I will remedy this with some corner moldings, as ther were not any from the factory.) The motor fires right up and has excellent compression on all 4 cyls. There is only one spider web that I have found and only a few small gel coat cracks. The former owner claims 55mph, we will see.

If anyone will tell me how to do it I will post some pics, not thay you all havent seen this make and model before, but maybe you can let me know what you think.

 

[TLB]

to the site, glad you joined us
You will find lots of info here!

 

[LAPLANT]

to the board

 

[85Predictor]

Welcome!!
I know what you mean about short boating seasons!!

Enjoy the new boat. 55 sounds like a doable speed.
I can get 52 hoping for 55 with my 115 Merc

 

[175checkmate]

Welcome to the board and a trimate owner to boot. Right on.
I would say there are more and more mid 70's being found and saved than some of the other models of that age.

 

[CHECK16]

Congrats on the Trimate.If you use a photo host site like this it is very easy and free.Upload pic to site.Then copy and paste IMG code from pic to your reply box.
http://photobucket.com/?special_track=nav_logo

 

[reality check]

to the site and congrats on the new ride!!!

 

[Old Hickory]

ditto's on photobucket.