Jolly outboard # 448 from 1967 with the original
Mercury Kiekhaefer 50HP from 1966
Named;
Bought the boat in 2003 in a minor state, the wood needed to be sanded and varnish and
there was a wooden plate on the front with a hole underneeth.
The seats needed upholstery and the trailer needed some work otherwise I couldnt take it with me on the road.
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The boat how she was when I did buy her
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After two years that I took her with me to the Lago di Garda I decided to restore
the deck and to put epoxy over the underwaterside and put pantserlack over it.
80% of the chrome is been rechromed and the seats had an upholstery.
What makes this boat other than a lot of Arcangeli's is the fact that this boat is complete
with the original Arcangeli steeringwheel and the original engine and throttle!!
Original steeringwheel and engine before and after refurbish.
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(see pic) from Eindhoven (Holland) and me together, creds for John! thanks mate!!!
In 2008 I took her for the first time after the restoration with me to the Lago di Garda again and
this year (2009) I took her with me to the Lago Maggiore near Milano.
In 2009 I had to replace some parts of the engine like the magnetoshaft and the breakerpoints,
I got the parts from Thom "frankenmerc" from the USA and my friend Frank did help me with
rebuilding and adjusting the engine which runs now like it is a new one.
My special thanks goes out to Thom and Frank for helping me!!
During the the years of painting, recovering and maintenance I discovered that in the bottom
there was a small piece of wood placed right over the middle keelson in shutter under the frontbench,
this piece of wood had #441 on it and when I removed this piece of
wood the #448 stood right under in the keelson itself.
Proberly this boat is two boats together as one because some chrome parts have #441 in it but the skeleton has #448.
At the Centro Nautico Salo (lake Garda, Italy)
in 2005 where I met Giuliano Arcangeli himself.
She was mine for eight years, she gave me so much pleasure and joy.
I sailed several waters and lakes with her in Holland and Italy..... Italy the place of birth of this beautiful boat.
She has gone to France (december 2011) to give her next owner Bertrand just as much pleasure as she has
given me, maybe even more.
She was my pride, my boat, my beauty.......... my Dolce Vita..... my translation of "The good life"
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If even real Italian boatlovers as this man do this for you..... then you really got a reason to be proud!
