CREEKRAT’S FLYIN’ FLIVER FLIVVER BOATS
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Welcome to the Creekrat CARtoon Studios Fabulous Flyin’ Fliver Boat Site! The Flyin' Fliver, the Little Tunnel Hull Stunt Boat and the Most Fun Boat Ever Made, originally designed in the 1950’s by the Hanson Family on Coon Lake Minnesota and partnered with the Beinhorn Family at Moderne Cabinet Works in New Prague Minnesota for manufacturing/distribution, was a comic staple of major Water Ski Shows the world over for decades and made famous by Corky & Corkette the Clowns at Cypress Gardens, Aqua the Clown at Tommy Bartlett's, Freddy the Clown at Rock Aqua Jays, the Aquamanics at Treasure Island, the Beaverland Must-Skis, the Min-Aqua Bats, Sea World, Disney, as well as us Cottage Racers on Wolverine Lake Michigan. These little crafts were used to go over jumps, drive up on shore and do all sorts of stunts. The self bailing design allows you to submerge the boat and come back on a plane being completely unsinkable! The Fliver, while not rated, usually ran 10 - 30 HP Outboard Motors, which will handle nicely, and also have been known to run some really Big Scary Outboard Motors! Still a thrill to run in today’s world of modern Personal Water Craft, Wave Runners and Jet Skis! It's hard to believe we've been Running and Wrecking and Building and Fixing Fliver Boats for over 50 Plus Years - How Can That Be? This website historically documents anything related to the Fabulous Flyin’ Fliver Boat so send us what you have (Stories, Photos, Anything) and we’ll add them here!
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GEN-1 FLYIN' FLIVVER! Gen-1 Flyin Flivver, Johnson 9.9 motor and TowGo galvanized trailer. Boat needs much work. Visually motor looks good for its age but I have no gas tank so not sure how it runs. (Long story). Trailer has new LED lights and wiring as well as new tires. Please look at pictures and ask questions if interested. $1500 for all. Leaving central NY about 9-21-24 for SE Tennessee via interstates 81-40 & 75 if anyone along the way would like to see it. Contact Larry Buske at +1.423.331.1680 email larrybee61@gmail.com. ONLY $1,500!
Listed September 17, 2024
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— FLYIN' FLIVER BOAT HISTORY — On a cool foggy summer morning in Minnesota sometime in the early 1950’s, Dean Edward Hanson, Sr., (“Dean”) one day looked over the rising sun reflections glistening on the waves of Coon Lake and had a vision of a new boat idea. Along with his young Son, Dean Edward Hanson, Jr., (“Eddy”) from their humble backyard porch workshop, they set in motion a new boat design that would start a revolution and influence boating enthusiasts many times the world over. Dean and Eddy were both craftsmen, fiddlers and tinkerers, extraordinaire being born of the “Can Do” generation of Americans, who can fix anything, think things up and then build them from scratch! The boat they envisioned and then built is known worldwide as the Flyin’ Flivver. Their design was revolutionary being a tunnel hull, set forward transom with two air chambers making the Flivver unsinkable and with fins in the back which also doubled as a way to stand the boat up on end for storage. The Flyin’ Flivver prototypes were originally made from plywood construction and rigorously tested and enhanced on the waters of Coon Lake. Eddy was the original Flyin’ Flivver Test Pilot and was fearless. When Dean and Eddy were satisfied with their progress, construction switched to a new fangled product called Fiberglass with molds made from the final prototype. To dial in the Flivver, they tested with all sorts of different sizes of outboard motors of the day including, Mercury, Gale, Champion, Oliver, Johnson, Evinrude, Martin, Wizard and Scott-Atwater, with horsepower ratings ranged from little putters to 50 HP. Outboard motors for testing on the Flivver were supplied directly from the manufacturers! Eddy’s favorite outboards for the Flivver were the Mercury's in the 15-25 HP range which balance exceptionally well with weight and horsepower for ample power and speed. Eddy did a lot of arduous testing including one trick where he would run the motor wide open, cut back on the throttle, and then pull the tiller handle all the way over causing the Flivver to dig in and turn on a dime 180 degrees and then throttle back up. The Filvver was also used extensively on Coon Lake for pulling water-skiers. After their final development in 1955, Dean filed a Patent Application with the United States Patent Office and was issued Patent 179,448 for the Flivver design on Christmas Day, December 25, 1956. We have the 179,448 Patent as well as photos of Eddy running the Flyin’ Flivver from magazine and newspaper articles back in the day as well as photos showing the design of Dean’s and Eddy’s original style Flivver! Production of the Hanson Flivvers was partnered with Vern Beinhorn at a Minnesota company called Moderne Cabinet Works. Moderne Cabinet Works had the production facilities to assembly line the manufacture of the Flivvers for sales and distribution and was staffed by Vern and his sisters (07/2011 Thank you Ron & Aris Beinhorn-Caron, Vern's Kids). The first Flivver’s were Yellow and Red and carried the Hanson designed Flyin’ Flivver logo. The Flivver production followed the original final prototype design and utilizing several boat molds. We have the original Sales Brochure and photos of the molds. After their fair share of brutal Minnesota winters (Anyone growing up in the Midwest USA in the winters knows what I’m saying here) the Hanson family decided to move to the warmer location of Sunny Florida. Dean and Eddy headed south to check out a number of potential locations and took a Flivver with them secured to the top of their car. While in Florida, Dean and Eddy met with Dick Pope of Cypress Gardens. The rest is Flivver boat history! (01/2015 Thank You Dean Edward Hanson, Jr. (“Eddy”) and Amanda Hanson-Albertson, Eddy’s Daughter and Dean’s Grand-Daughter). Later, there have been other manufacturers over the years making these boats calling them Flivver, Fliver and Fliv-R, among others! There was a company called Osborn, we think sometime in the early to mid 1960's and we have their brochure. It looks like Reitman in Florida was building Fliver Boats in the 1970's. Apparently, Fliver boats were also made by a company called Mirage and Rabco. We now know that there was a company called Hanes Industries, Inc., in Winter Haven, Florida, and was called the Fliv-R-Boat. Another company making Flivers was called Royal Craft and there was also Midland Reinforced Plastics LTD. We also know that Cypress Gardens, in the 1960's, made and sold their own Fliver Boats too. Thereafter, we know Flivers were made in the 1960's by a company called Hurst. Jim Noles of Noles Fiberglass Products, in Eloise, Florida, made custom Flivers in the 1970's through the 1990's, and then also by Lightning Powerboats who we believe may still have the original Noles molds. World famous race boat builders, Hydrostream, was building Fliver Boats, albeit not from the old Noles molds as speculated. We think Disney also made their own Flivers too. We've added their photos! It’s also possible the famous boat builders MasterCraft made Flivers too. There are some Fliver's here we can't identify but they all have the basic 8 foot or 8.2 or 8.5 foot tunnel hull design (Some Flivers were also made longer and we remember a company making 10 or 11 foot Flivers) albeit the transoms and sponsens have changed many times over the years. At one time, the Fliver was being considered as a sanctioned American Power Boat Association ("APBA") class for racing - what fun that would have been! The Original Hanson Flivver Boat Patent 179448 from 1955-1956:
The Original Moderne Cabinet Works Flyin' Flivver Boat Ad from 1956:
From Flyin' Flivver Gal Pal, Amanda Hanson-Albertson, Daughter of Dean E. Hanson, Jr., and Grand Daughter of Dean E. Hanson, Sr., awesome photo of Dean Jr., Ripping it up in an original Flivver Boat on Coon Lake:
The Original Hanson Flivver Boat!
The Original Hanson Flivver Boat with steering and throttle!
What fun it must have been back in the day to contact Vern Beinhorn at Moderne Cabinet Works and order a Flivver Boat setup like this directly from the factory in Minnesota!
February 2025 - Way Kool Flyin' Flivver Boat Action again with Corky the Clown at Cypress Gardens captured from a very old and crusty short home movie - Corky doing doughnuts in the water!
February 2025 - Creekrat Cartoon Studios was contacted by the gang at the Hurst Boat Company located in Del Rio, Texas who just finished making new molds for their Flivver Boat line, wanting Logo art work for their new Flivver Boat Decals! Pretty Sweet! February 2025 - Awesome Way Kool shot of Aqua the Clown at Tommy Bartlett’s Waterski Show with the Hammer Down! Notice his hand is not on the tiller so maybe he’s getting ready to bail out or do a stunt? Anyway he’s cooking in his Fliver!
February 2025 - Vintage Cypress Gardens Waterski Team featuring Kathy McClintlock who we seem to recall also possibly doubled as a Corkette in the Fliver. Blue and White Fliver running a 25 Johnson 2 Stroke.
January 2025 - This dude finally made it to Cypress Gardens in the mid 1970’s landing a gig at the park hoping to ski and or drive the Fliver Boat but tasked with the daily assignment of keeping the miles of ski ropes sorted out.
January 2025 - More Fliver Boat Historical Fun and again with the Min-Aqua Bats in Minocqua, Wis., at the Bosacki’s Marine and Sports Shop getting the Kite ready to fly being towed by a kool Classic Hydrodyne running dual Johnson’s. Fliver Boat on the dock so too kool to ignore.
January 2025 - 1959 Popular Boating Boat Show Guide to Manufacturers. “MODERNE CABINET WORKS NEW PRAGUE, MINN. FLYIN’ FLIVVER 82"x54" fiberglass runabout features 2 pontoon air chambers and 2 pontoon keels and is recommended for use with motors from 5 HP t0 20 HP. Boat weighs 110Lbs and can support 700 Lbs.” Pretty Kool Flivver Boat Find!
January 2025 - Fliver Boat Action with the Min-Aqua Bats Water Ski Show Team at the American Water Ski Association’s (“AWSA”) 1968 Badger Open Tournament. Fliver Boat running a Johnson Outboard on the shoreline waiting for some action during the ski show.
January 2025 - Way Kool Vintage Gen-1 Flyin Flivver in Cumberland Wisconsin running a Mercury 9.9 110 2 Stroke Outboard. Restored nicely and looks like it retains its original bits and pieces. Great classic history here with this First Generation Flivver Boat from the 1950’s.
December 2024 - From the camera of Kerby Block seated in the Spectator Stands during the Waterski Show at Cypress Gardens in 1974 and shot on Kodak Ektachrome Film including a Yellow Flivver and looks to be running a Johnson Seahorse Outboard.
December 2024 - Fliver Boating with The Max Racing Team! This is what Running a Fliver Boat Sounds Like! Hot Linked to Video by Clicking on the photo!
December 2024 - Fliver Boating with Just Send It! This is what running a Fliver Boat Looks Like! Hot Linked to Video by Clicking on the photo!
November 2024 - First generation Flyin’ Flivver running what appears to be a 1957 Mercury Inline 6 Competition Model Mark 75H with a Quicky Lower Unit in a swimming pool for demonstration display at a boat show. SWEET!
November 2024 - Restoration of a Rare Fliver Deck Boat, we believe to be a Noles. Running both Mercury and an Antique Evinrude. We’ve seen a few of these in the past but not too many! Very Kool!
November 2024 - Pretty kool how the original Hanson designed Gen-1 Flyin’ Flivvers had them 1950’s styled tail fins of the day which also doubled for way to stand the boat up for storage.
November 2024 - More from the Creekrat Fliver Boat Gallery Page. Ready to hit the lake!
November 2024 - More from the Creekrat Fliver Boat Gallery Page. Try all youse want there ain’t no sinking a Flyin’ Flivver Boat! Looks like a fun time to us just don’t flip or fall out, Baw Haw Haw!
October 2024 - Flyin' Fliver Boat Fun captured on vintage photograph technology remembering when we took photos, developed the film and then threw out the bad ones. Cooking on the Water here!
October 2024 - Okay Jet Skis may be Way More Faster but Fliver Boats are Way More Funner!
October 2024 - A Fliver Boat tied to the Ski Jump Ramp as the Clowns attempt sum Hang Time.
October 2024 - A Flyin’ Flivver Boat Trifecta! How many Flivver Boats do you need? One more of course! Baw, Haw, Haw, we love it!
September 2024 - Andy Christian from Melbourne Australia, the Vice President of the South Waters Ski Show Team, also known as the IWWF Moomba Ski Show Team, performing at the largest water ski event in the world held in the Yarra River located in the heart of Melbourne CBD - Moomba Masters, acquired a Hurst Flivver Boat for their World Famous Water Ski Show! They reached out to us for Model Identification and Jack Plate rigging pointers. The motor is from a Water Rescue Operation with a custom lower unit. Every Water Ski Show needs a Flyin’ Flivver! More to follow……
September 2024 - April Chris Smith acquired a way kool 11.5 foot Fliver boat mold modified to a rolled edge. Kind of looks like the old Noles mold. She’s building her own Custom Fliver Boats. Very Kool!
September 2024 - Still hands down nothing more fun on the water than a Fliver Boat! Here’s Max Lantvit’s Fliver!
August 2024 - A Flivver Boat found down in Tavernier Florida. Dig that deck!? Should scoot nicely with the Yamaha 25 HP with that adjustable Jack Plate!
August 2024 - A Fliver Boat found down in St. Petersburg Florida. We've seen this style before but have no idea who the manufacturer was.
August 2024 - A Hurst Flivver found down in Clearmont Florida. Dig the original Factory Hurst Decal!
August 2024 - Sad Fliver Boat day - Had some time off and decided to make a run - trailered down to the Kenmore Boat Ramp on Lake Washington - ramp not busy at all and water looked calm - motor fired right up but would not pee %@#$&? ! BUMMER! New Impeller installed so ready to go…
July 2024 - Another Fliver Boat being prepped as a plug to make a new mold down in Palm Harbor Florida with Michael Georgianna - can’t wait to see more and it’s great seeing people keeping the Fliver Boats alive! We’d like to order one with Old Skool Big Metal Flake maybe from Lil’ Daddy Roth or House of Color! We’ve always dreamed of having a Sparkle Flake Gel Coated Fliver! Maybe someday though at this old age I’m running outta time!
July 2024 - More of a beautiful restored First Generation Hanson Flyin’ Flivver known in the Greater Berwyn Illinois area as “My Little Margie” sporting a 9.9 outboard motor.
July 2024 - Okay and just when youse think you've seen every type of Fliver Boat - Ding, Bang, Owe! Check out what Blake Alvis down in Tampa Bay Florida is building! Blake plans on putting his Air Boat Flivers into production! Creekrat Cartoon Studios has been commissioned to do the logo art for the rutters and decals and tee-shirt bling! Is this totally Kool or What? More to follow...
July 2024 - We’ve seen this style Fliver Boat before but no clue who manufactured this design. This version is being restored and prepared as a plug for a mold for making Kevlar Flivers!
July 2024 - END OF AN ERA! World Famous Fliver Boat "Screamin Seamen" which terrorized the Gator Infested Swamps of Flordia for decades running 10HP to 50HP Beasts has been sold to new Fliver Boat Owners. It was popular back in the day to paint cartoons on the bottom of Flivers!
June 2024 - A Twin Pulse Jet Powered Flyin’ Flivver Boat? When you hear the word "jetboat" most people these days think of a boat using a powerful piston engine and impeller setup to create a high-pressure water jet out the stern. Well the First Gen Flivver Boat pictured here is not driven by a regular piston engine or a jet of water -- it's got two 105lb-thrust Pulse Jets doing the pushing. This Flivver was modified with the dual mounted jet engines over a half a century ago by Famous Hydroplane Builder Bill Pearson and was featured in the May 1959 edition of Popular Mechanics. With an all-up weight (excluding driver) of just 147 pounds, the 200 pounds of thrust produced by the two engines reportedly produced quite spritely performance. Think of Fearless WW2 Test Pilot Hanna Reitsch strapped into a V1! Top speed was claimed to be over 45 mph. The downside was that it used about six gallons of gasoline per mile and created a deafening roar that could be heard for many miles and ran at a cooking hot 2300 degrees. Just when you think you’ve seen every kind of Flivver Boat - Ding Bang Owe! Is this Crazy Fliver Boat History or What?
June 2024 - Way Kool Original First Generation Flyin’ Flivver Boat running a Vintage 1959 Red Mercury Outboard! What a Beauty! Looks unrestored too! May 2024 - Flivver Boats and totally ready for full top to bottom restoration from over at Mini Speed Boats. Looks like years of “rode hard and put away wet” but restorable and a good start!
May 2024 - Waterski Show Brochure from Tommy Bartlett’s at the Wisconsin Dells dated 1977 which mentions Aqua the Clown and his Flying Fliver in the Show Opening “Parade of Boats” so kool! April 2024 - More Yellow Fliver Boat Fun with the Fabulous Cypress Gardens Aqua Maids:
March 2024 - 1966 Cypress Gardens Yellow Fliver Boat Fun! Looks like the Kite and an Aqua Maid are getting ready to hit the skis!
March 2024 - The Clowns at Cypress Gardens had a habit of docking their Fliver Boats to the Ski Jump. Here’s a vintage Cypress Gardens Post Card that shows a tied up Red Fliver Boat running a white outboard probably a Johnson 25. It’s a squinter but too kool to ignore.
March 2024 - Ed Grinvalds ripping it up in his Gen-1 Flyin' Flivver Boat! Ed restored this boat to new condition and powered it with a Mercury 25 2 Stroke Outboard Motor. Ed recently sold this boat through the Creekrat Flivver Boat Buy & Sell section. Sure is a Beauty and now off to new adventures on the water!
March 2024 - We have no idea what’s going on here, found surfing the interweb, but it’s a Fliver Boat and a Banjo so too kool to ignore…
February 2024 - Vintage Osborn Fliver Boat Ad with Graham - Potnik Sports, from over at Scream & Fly! The Exciting New “Osborn” Fun Boat!
January 2024 - Corky the Clown in his Fliver Boat at Cypress Gardens on vintage GAF Pana-View technology:
January 2024 - Flyin’ Fliver Boat Hang Time with the Min-Aqua Bats Waterski Show!
January 2024 - A Restored 1957 Gen-1 Flyin’ Flivver Boat on Display at the 2024 Minneapolis Minnesota Boat Show January 18th to the 21st located in the Minneapolis Convention Center. The Display includes Original Historical Creekrat Fliver Boat Sourced Documentation. Rumor has it that this Flivver actually saw action on Coon Lake Minnesota. VERY KOOL DISPLAY!
January 2024 - More Kool Proof that Cypress Gardens manufactured their own line of Flivver Boats!
January 2024 - Kool Fliver Boat History from a 1968 Episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson filmed at Cypress Gardens! A real documented surprise Flyin’ Fliver Boat Overload in one historical find so pretty Kool!
December 2023 - Finishing off 2023 with some Kool Vintage Flyin’ Flivver Boat Fun!
December 2023 - View showing audience watching clown water skiing and a Fliver Boat during performance at the Cypress Gardens theme park in Winter Haven, Florida. Founded in 1936 by Dick and Julie Pope, Cypress Gardens was the state's first theme park. Proclaimed the Water Ski Capitol of the World, Cypress Gardens became the birthplace of performance water skiing in 1941.
December 2023 - Tommy Bartlett’s Water Ski Show with the Ski Show Boats Lineup! There’s a Fliver next to the red inflatable. This photo is circa 2019 so right before the Covid shutdown. Looks like all their boats were running Mercury Outboards too!
December 2023 - A photo from a long time ago tooling up the Sammamish Slough and the water was like glass! Not a Gator in sight!
December 2023 - Rabco Fliver Boats with their unique wide sponsons and narrow interior. Probably could fit a small 3 gallon gas tank lengthwise but I don't think my feet would fit!
December 2023 - Christmas Parade at Beaver Dam Wisconsin with a Fliver Boat Themed Float by our Good Pals at the Beaverland Must-Skis Waterski Show Team! AWESOME! Santa runs Mercs!
December 2023 - More Fliver Boat action down in Boward County Florida! Makes us think of the Good Old Days on the Saint John's River between Stone Island, Lake Jesup and Lake Monroe and on down to Silver Springs!
November 2023 - Kool Vintage Fliver Boat Action at Tommy Bartletts on Lake Dalton Wisconsin in 2017 with Robbie Allen and Marc Thefunkman:
November 2023 - Blurry as all get out but hey it’s got a Fliver Boat so still too kool to ignore circa 1972 Cypress Gardens!
November 2023 - Blurry as all get out but hey it’s got a Fliver Boat so still too kool to ignore circa 1974 Cypress Gardens!
November 2023 - That's a wrap to another year of Fun Fliver Boating here in the PNW and boats stored away for the long arduous cold wet soggy winter. Was able to apply a polish and wax to the Fliver but still need to do the Tahiti.
November 2023 - Classic late 1950’s Cypress Gardens Clown Action running a Vintage Gen-1 Flyin’ Flivver, our guesstimate is these predate the introduction of Corky and Corkette!
November 2023 - More Fliver Boat Fun with The Neverless Nocks Water Thrill Show at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter located on Clock Tower Lake in Perry Georgia! Sure looks like everyone had an Awesome Time and wish we were there too for all the Kool Waterski Show and Fliver Boat Fun!
November 2023 - Okay what you are looking at here is the World's Fastest Fliver Boat, a rare 11.5 foot Mirage, owned and operated by Benjamin Jamie Darlington and hitting speeds of 60+ Miles Per Hour! Very Kool!
November 2023 - Awesome Lazy Fliver Boat day with John Christensen and Family of Lightning Performance Boats! November 2023 - Austin Knake’s Cypress Gardens Flivver located in Iowa. His Grandpa used to take Flivvers over the water ski jump in the 60’s! November 2023 - More "Whipping da Flivver" with Matt Claussen down in Winter Haven Florida with the “LIL NUTZ” running a 25 Johnson!
November 2023 - Fliver Boat Fun down in Beautiful Brevard County Florida! Wish we were there too during this time of year as wa are now freezing again here in the PNW!
November 2023 - Fliver Boat Fun with Fliver Gal Pal Sabrina Gamble and her Fliver Boat Friends on the River at Ginne Springs / High Springs Florida! Looks like fun to us here at Creekrat!
November 2023 - Maclain Hammond capturing a Wild Pilotless Fliver Boat with the Min-Aqua Bats Waterski Show! Flivers really cook empty at wide open throttle when they buck out a driver!
October 2023 - Way Kool Fliver Boat find and this time located in Beautiful Portsmouth New Hampshire and check out the custom handles on the sides and the front and the divider for the gas tank. Looks like a Hurst Fliver Boat to us by the transom design but with no railing curved lip on the edge! Pretty Kool!
October 2023 - Look what Catagory 4 Hurricane Idalia churned up and spit out during the August 2023 Storm down in Florida. We hope this Fliver Boat can find its way back home.
October 2023 - Blurry as all get out but it’s a Fliver Boat so too Kool to Ignore! Looks to be running a Johnson 2 Stroke Outboard. This one frequently hits the swampy swamps way down in Trinity Florida!
October 2023 - Flyin’ Fliver Boat used by the Beaverland Must-Skis Competition Waterski Team located in Beaver Dam Wisconsin! Sweet!
October 2023 - Aqua The Clown's Fliver Boats from Tommy Bartlett's Waterski Shows are still seeing action with The Neverless Nocks Thrill Show at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter located on Clock Tower Lake in Perry Georgia! Pretty Kool!
October 2023 - Way Kool 1st-Gen located in Norton Shores Michigan and ready for a full restoration. Hard to see but it looks like it still has the U.S. Patent Number Tag on the transom and was an original Yellow Flyin’ Flivver!
October 2023 - Another Frankenstein Xs Merc 650 Completed by Benjamin Jamie Darlington in his quest for 60+ MPH in a Fliver Boat!
October 2023 - Located in Olive Branch Mississippi and originally from Cypress Gardens Florida and identified as a 1974 Mastercraft Fliver Boat. Powered by a 15HP Evinrude 2 Stroke Outboard. Notice the boat lip which appears to be formed over a PVC Pipe and the height of the rear sponson deck! Being from Detroit we dig the Ted Nugent Decal on the Transom!
September 2023 - Vintage Osborn Marine Fliver Boat Ad. Located in Winter Haven Florida and we'd guess sometime in the 1970's based on the Outboards and the prices. Pretty Kool!
September 2023 - A Rabco Fliver Boat with custom steering and running a 9.9 Yamaha Four Stroke Outboard. Rabco’s are unique with their wide sponsons and narrow center.
September 2023 - More Fliver Boat Fun with Shayne Broderick's Mirage Flivver running on Lake Louisa in Clermont Florida powered by a modified Johnson 25HP souped up with Drilled Transfer Ports with Bridgeported Intake and Exhaust Ports - estimated to be modded to 40HP!
September 2023 - Fliver Boat Fun with Joey Gase running a Mercury 4 Stroke.
September 2023 - Gen-1 Fliver Boat Fun with Richard Hysell running a Johnson 18. Notice the glassed in rope handle!
September 2023 - Gen-1 Fliver Boat Fun with Doug Campbell running a Scott Atwater. September 2023 - Shayne Broderick's Mirage Flivver Boat running a Johnson 25HP with a 40HP conversion. Both boat and motor are 2020 models. Located in Gator Infested Sunny Florida!
September 2023 - George Blakeman's 1978 Hurst Flivver running a 1995 Mercury 9.9 located in Saint Petersburg Florida. All composite transom and no foam.
August 2023 - Kool Tommy Bartlett Waterski Show Program from the late 60’s early 70’s that references Aqua the Clown and his Fliver!
August 2023 - Cole Kolasa Ripping Up Merritt Island Florida! Typical Fliver Boat Fun = Not much in the water except the motor! August 2023 - Classic 1955 Mercury Hurricane on Brian Lamb’s Fliver Boat. The Creekrat Cartoon Fliver Boat decal guaranteed to add 10MPH to any Fliver Boat! We love it!
August 2023 - More photos of Ken Vohwinkle’s Flivver Boats. Kool decking and fabed in fuel tanks. Pretty Sweet and got to crank running the 30 and 35 HP Outboards!
As stated by Ken over at Fliver & Things… “I can remember like it was yesterday. I was on the Weeki Wachee River, I was about 9 years old and saw a little boat that was so cool. I have always wanted one. And finally found one in Brooksville Florida leaning against and old oak tree near a lake I was spraying. I was 53 with my first Flivver boat. I have 2, 1973 Hurst Flivver boats, and a 74. All 3 are 8' in length. 2 are finished and I'm working on the 3rd one.” Sweet!
July 2023 - More Vintage Fliver Boat Stuff and this time from an Old Cypress Gardens Map. Check it Out! We guess probably late 1960’s or early 1970’s based on the style of the Art. Pretty Kool as they CARtooned in Corky The Clown in his Red Fliver!
July 2023 - Old Man Hitting the Water! We had Lake Washington to ourselves and the water was like glass. Tooled all over the North End of the lake then headed up the Sammamish! Running the 30 HP Tohatsu 2 Stroke - Ported, Polished, Tweaked and Dialed In by Famed Snowmobile Builder Doc Fang Racing & Engineering in Keego Harbor Michigan! It still runs like a Scalded Beast! Hit that Throttle and Instant Plane! Back Home we noticed a small gas leak in Fuel Pipe A so parts ordered up - We wonder if it was caused by old age wear or by the blended ethanol gas here in the PNW?
July 2023 - We Really dig what Mirage is doing nowadays with their New Awesome Carbon Fiber Flivver Racers! We want one!
July 2023 - Some Smoking Flivver Boat Finds out there if you keep a keen eye out - this was listed as a "8' Fiberglass Pond Boat" and seller was asking $50 Bucks! July 2023 - Way Kool Gen-1 Flyin' Flivver restored by Ed Grinvalds and we really Dig the Kustom Paint Job! Powered by a 1986 Mercury 25 Outboard!
July 2023 - Way Kool 1st Generation Hanson Flyin' Flivver Boat sporting a 15HP Evinrude Motor and check out that Custom License Plate too! Very clean and getting rigged for a new 3GAL gas tank. We really like that color combo. Boat is owned by Rick Haight who runs on Beaver Lake in Tennessee.
June 2023 - Cypress Gardens Waterski Show Action probably from the late 1960's or early 1970's and a Yellow Fliver Boat waiting for Corky and Corkette! June 2023 - A fun day at the June 16-18, 2023 Quincy, Illinois Classic Boat and Outboard Show coupled with the 17 Mile Mississippi River Run from Mark Twain’s home town of Hannibal, Missouri to Quincy. Present at the show is Max Wayrzyniak’s awesome Gen-1 Flyin’ Flivver Boat running a sweet classic Evinrude! Note the Johnson gas tank. Us old timers will recall Evinrude and Johnson were pretty much interchangeable. What a Beauty!
June 2023 - A Flyin' Flivver Boat kind of day with John Stevens on Lake Conway in Orlando Florida. Makes me think of doing a Flivver Boat run on the St. Johns River through Lake Monroe and Lake Jesup from Stone Island just outside of Orlando! Would have to stop at the Black Hammock for a Beer! The good old dazes...
June 2023 - Another Kool 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair Fliver Boat action with the Florida State Exhibit Citrus Water Ski Show!
June 2023 - Way Kool vintage postcard showing Aqua The Clown in his Fliver Boat leading the Waterski Boats around the Ski Jump Ramps at Good Old Tommy Bartlett’s at the Dells!
June 2023 - Tom Heger got this Gen-1 Hanson Flyin’ Flivver when he was 14 years old. He’s now 72 and just took the Flivver Boat out. How Kool is that?
May 2023 - With Jack Aylsworth over at the Evinrude - Johnson Outboards. Facts, History, Racing and OMC. Home of the "Sea-House Spectacular Show" when during the 60's, 70's and early 80's, Johnson sponsored the Ski Show and many other boat entertainment events at Cypress Gardens Florida. This was also the primary location for the majority of our ad & catalog photography, television specials and films. Literally thousands of our photos were shot on Lake Eloise where the Gardens were located. More than just Flowers & Skiers, most people who remember the Gardens think of beautiful flower gardens and professional ski shows. But it was much more. For many years, small-boat closed-circuit races, kneel-down hydros, and Flivvers were staples on the Gardens extensive boating entertainment menu. Super-Light Flivvers, typically powered by 25HP Johnsons, were crazy-quick and truly entertaining to watch. Steeplechase races running through the Gardens' tight canals with jumps were crowd pleasers. Fun rides with Gardens pilots were also part of the cation. And there was Corky The Clown. At one time, Cypress Gardens was the most famous attraction (before Disney) - it's now a Legoland Park.
May 2023 - Vintage Viewmaster Technology again at Cypress Gardens in Florida showing the filming of a TV Show with a White Fliver running a Johnson so sometime in the late 1960's we'd guess. Pretty Kool!
May 2023 - Winter Garage Flivver Boating with Brian Wilson and Andrew Taylor!
May 2023 - Flivver Boat Fun and Hammer Down with Matt Gent! Matt's Fliver Boat is powered by a screaming 40HP Tohatsu! KOOL! May 2023 - Flivver Boat Flying with Ed Phalen in Baldwin New York sometime in the 1970's.
May 2023 - Don Mashke over at Scream and Fly - Extreme Performance Boats - Back in the day running a Johnson 30HP Outboard hitting 43MPH. "That is a boat for a young man with a young back."
May 2023 - Tracy Smith over at Scream and Fly - Extreme Performance Boats - Flying' Flivver Boating and hitting 38.7MPH!
May 2023 - Brian Lamb running an Awesome Mercury Super KG Hurricane with a Quicksilver Lower Unit - Very Kool!
May 2023 - Jonathan Windsor's 11 Footer Mirage Flying Fliver! Dig the Creekrat Fliver Decal too!
May 2023 - Squaw Lake Ollies in Michigan running a Rabco built Fliver.
May 2023 - Mark Thompson's 1985 Hurst 8' Fliver - he ran it with a 25HP Johnson. The person he sold it to did a complete restoration now looking better thank new!
May 2023 - Brian Lamb running a sweet Mercury Mark 20 on a 75ish pound full Carbon and Composite Fliver!
May 2023 - Benjamin Jamie Darlington Historical Fliver Boat Photos on his quest for 60+MPH in a Flivver! Looks Awesome!
May 2023 - Fliver Boating with Mitch Reitman of Reitman Family Fliver Boat Fame over at Scream And Fly - Extreme Performance Powerboats!
May 2023 - Fliver Boating with Jay Gonzalez over at Scream And Fly - Extreme Performance Powerboats! Seen running all over South and Central Florida usually in the 25-30HP range but there's a guy here running a 50HP Tohatsu at 50+MPH but too scared to open it up all the way! Very Kool!
May 2023 - More Way Kool Flyin’ Flivver Boat Action at the Redwood City Marine World - Africa USA. Undated Post Card but probably late 1970’s?
May 2023 - Cowboys and Indians, a Case of TNT, a Fliver Boat running a Mariner Outboard - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Spring 1991 at the Wild West Show at Sea World in Beautiful San Antonio Texas!
May 2023 - The Tommy Bartlett's Water Ski & Jumping Boat Thrill Show was a popular tourist attraction in the Wisconsin Dells, and showcased the Fliver Boat antics and stunts for decades. The show was created in 1952 by showman Tommy Bartlett as a traveling group of entertainers, originally based in Chicago, Illinois. The Wisconsin Dells show was performed between late May and early September on Lake Delton. Sadly, on September 16, 2020 the show announced it would permanently close due to financial losses from the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 2023 - A 1989 Fliver Boat running a 25 HP Yamaha with a Jack Plate and can hit 42 MPH. Check out the Custom Deck!
May 2023 - A Fliver Boat on a Football Field Tied to a Goal Post? The World’s First Waterski Show in a Football Stadium! Your eyes aren't playing tricks on you - there’s a Fliver Boat tied to the Goal Post. This is a picture of a flooded Memorial Stadium in Seattle Washington back in the summer of 1970. Local promotors, Gordon Ogden and Jerry Comeaux, had the stadium filled with 3.5 million gallons of water for a water ski show! A dam was constructed on the south end of the playing field out of pilings, marine plywood and polyetheline. The water held for all 4 of the shows over a three day period and was drained out slowly through storm drains on the last night. The grass in the stadium wasn't damaged and officials said it was greener than ever before!
April 2023 - The Min-Aqua Bats Waterski Show in Wisconsin reintroduced the Fliver Boat to their Waterski Shows in the Summer of 2019 and is tasked with doing sum serious stunts!
April 2023 - A Fliver Boat found in Eldon, Missouri:
April 2023 - A Fliber Boat found down in Lutz Florida about 15 Clicks North of Tampa running a Yamaha motor and appears to be from the Hydrostream molds by the transom? Maybe an Osborn? Them Yamaha Outboards are Tough Motors!
April 2023 - Flyin’ Flivver Boat Fun again at Good Old Cypress Gardens and sometime in the mid 1970’s so too Kool to ignore! Looks like it’s running a Johnson Outboard. April 2023 - Fliver Boat Hang Time with Ray Russell on Lake Jesup Florida! Looks like a Fun Time to us. Still needs to get a little bit warmer here in the PNW but we’ve got the Fliver Boat and Motor dialed in and ready to go and picked up the new tabs this morning.
April 2023 - Matti Claussen’s Fliver Boat in Winter Haven Florida. Must scoot nicely with the 25 Johnson Outboard and we dig the “LIL NUTZ” name! April 2023 - Tim Smith’s Fliver Boat in Winter Haven Florida. Tim says it’s a 2008 from an original Cypress Gardens mold and not from a fake. Ready for some outboard action. April 2023 - From Robbie Allan at the Tommy Bartlett Waterski Show - Getting out of the Fliver Boat the hard way! March 2023 - Benjamin Jamie Darlington hitting 61.3 MPH running a Merc 700X on his Flivver Boat but the GoPro GPS didn’t catch the run. Wicked Fast for a Fliver and a World Record I’d think! We love it!
February 2023 - Fliver Boat Racing in the Olden Days with John Stevens down on Sunny Lake Conway in Orlando Florida! Pretty Kool!
February 2023 - Can’t decide to go Water Skiing or Fliver Boating? Oh Well… February 2023 - Way Kool Vintage Fliver Boating running a Sweet Yamato Outboard! Looks like the 80. Dig the Kustom Tiller Handle too. We still have a new in the crate Yamato 302 from our Old APBA Days so someday we’ll run it on the Fliver or possibly building a Waterbug!
January 2023 - This site is dedicated to the memory of Dean Edward Hanson, Jr. (July 22, 1944 - January 20, 2023) the Father, Designer and First Test Pilot for the Flyin' Flivver Boat. Eddy lived most his life in Tampa, Florida. Eddy was the son of Freda and Dean Edward Hanson, Sr. Eddy was born in Washington D.C. and raised in in Minnesota on Coon Lake until he was a teenager, and it was on Coon Lake that he and his father conceived of and invented the Flyin' Flivver boat of Cypress Gardens fame. Rest in Peace dear friend and Thank You for Making the World a Better Place! January 2023 - More fun Flivver Boat Finds and this time with the GAF View-Master Stereo Viewer from the 1960's! Check out this Way Kool View-Master Cypress Gardens "Water Ski Show" Reel Sets with the inclusion of "3. Corky's Flivver" on the Label and then "3. Corky's Flivver is bouncing boat" on the Reel! Is this Kool Schyt or What?
January 2023 - Blue Fliver Boat Fun and this time with the Sea World Water Ski Show in Aurora Ohio sometime in 1974: January 2023 - Way Kool Vintage Johnson Outboard Magazine ad introducing the Sea-Horse 100 so we estimate 1966? Yellow Fliver in the photo!
January 2023 - With Bonnie Parker attending the 2017 Citizen’s Bank & Trust Employee Picnic at Cypress Gardens. Nate Adams posing with Corky the Clown as a Fliver Boat zips by…
December 2022 - An awesome way kool Flivver Boat Barn Find we’ve seen before except for the motor. A true 1958 Gen-1 Hanson Flyin’ Flivver in excellent condition and paired with an original Classic Yamato 350 Outboard, the Grand Father to our Racing Yamato 302! SWEET! Baw Haw Haw!
December 2022 - 1974 at Cypress Gardens from a 8mm Kodachrome Home Movie. Looks to be running a Johnson. Blurry but Kool!
November 2022 - A Fliver that makes the rounds from Jensen Beach to Jupiter Inlet Aquatic Preserve through Hobe Sound and Tequesta by Limestone Creek due east of the Florida Turnpike Highway 95 and Port Salerno Highway 1.
November 2022 - Kool Fliver Boat find and ready for picking. What kind of motor? What kind of trailer? Looks like a Hurst Fliver Boat?
November 2022 - Way Kool Fliver Boat action which looks like a Noles or an Osborn running a Johnson 25 which is about the perfect all around 2 Stroke size motor for care free Fliver Boating.
November 2022 - 2020 Mirage Fliver Boat running a Sweet 1957 Mercury Mark 30 4 Cylinder. Should scoot pretty good!
November 2022 - Always Good to see the Way Kool Official Creekrat Cartoon Studios Fliver Boat Decals on Fliver Boats!
November 2022 - Custom Fliver Boat lift on a Motorhome in Florida. Pretty neat wench lift and they also have the outboard motor mounted. We really dig the Kool Original Creekrat Cartoons Fliver Boat Decals too!
October 2022 - More Cypress Gardens Post Card Action! It’s a squinter but there’s a Flyin’ Fliver on the dock ready to hit the show so too Kool to ignore!
October 2022 - Way Kool Fliver Boat Action with Aqua the Clown at the Tommy Bartlett Water Ski Shows at the Dells and looks to be running a late model Mercury 25HP Two Stroke which we find is the closest to the perfect motor to run for torque and power and speed.
October 2022 - Still more Wack Fliver Boat Finds here and both identified as Noles boats measuring 11 foot 6 inches each. Old Jim Noles was coming up with some unique Fliver Boat designs. Pretty Sweet Fliver Boat History here though…
October 2022 - Another Kool 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair Fliver Boat action with the Florida State Exhibit Citrus Water Ski Show!
October 2022 - Did MasterCraft make Flivers? This question has come up before and this time with the Water Circus hosted by the Water Ski Shows, inc., located in the beautiful Smoky Mountains at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Here are a few pages from their 1987 flyer which clearly shows a Fliver Boat with MasterCraft on the side. Last time we saw reference to a MasterCraft Fliver was in an old Tommy Bartlett brochure from the 1970’s. I’d say yes at this point but the jury is still out remembering the Boston Whaler Fliver Boat - Baw, Haw, Haw!!
October 2022 - Hey check it out Fliver Dudes and Dudettes! Fliver Boat Mold getting rare Carbon Fiber inlay. Sure should be a lot lighter!
October 2022 - Another wacky Fliver Boat find. Apparently this boat was made by Noles Fiberglass Products in Eloise Florida. Sure has a bunch of Fliver Boat bits and looks too and with it’s tunnel hull and set back transom. Odd is it’s 13 foot in length with a 59 inch beam and has a center pod between the sponsons. Just when you think youse seen everything Fliver - Ding Bang Ow!
October 2022 - More Way Kool Fliver Boat Post Card finds and this one from the Marine World Africa Water Ski Show in Redwood City California! Really dig the boats jumping the ski ramp and you’ll also notice a Clown in a Fliver Boat! I could not imagine hitting the ramp in a Fliver but I’d think it was tried some time some where….
October 2022 - Ken Vohwinkle getting ready to Rip it Up in his restored Hurst Fliver Boat! October 2022 - Cypress Gardens Water Ski Show in 1969 showing a White Fliver on the dock and looks to be running a Johnson. Thank you to Duane Davis from Stone Island Florida!
October 2022 - Classic 1963 Cypress Gardens Ski Show Time and with a Hanson Gen-1 Yellow Flyin’ Flivver Boat. May have been delivered to Dick Pope from Dean and Dean! October 2022 - A Vintage Flivver Boat identified as a 1959 running a Sweet 1959 Evinrude 7.5 Twin. Boat in need of some transom repair but for that extra ounce of speed the bottom of the boat is covered in Airboat Slick Bottom Frog Spit!! Dig the custom hand rails too!!
October 2022 - Custom Transom Work on what looks to be a Noles based Fliver Boat and we surmise that they wanted to run with a Long Shaft Outboard Motor so well done for getting it on the water!
September 2022 - From Fliver Boat Gal Pal Taylor DeBois AKA Corkette The Clown during 1966 at Cypress Gardens with Corky The Clown revving up the Fliver Boat during the break in the Water Ski Show!
September 2022 - More Fliver Boat Fun in Campbell’s Belmont Lake Marina off of 56 Fire Route 33 in Havelock, Ontario Canada running a 1995 Mercury 15 HP under a Sleeper 9.9 cowl. Looks to be a Hydrostream Fliver:
September 2022 - Always dig finding Fliver Boats for sale while surfing the internet and still some way kool smoking deals out there though nothing is getting any cheaper due to the current Fliver Boat Market Trends tied to the economy and the price of GAS! Thank You Joe! September 2022 - Sum Fun Fliver Boat Fun in the Sun Action with Max Lantvit!
September 2022 - Sum Fun Fliver Boat Action with Mitch Reitman in an Osborn!
September 2022 - A Flock of Flivers! s September 2022 - Coleen and Christopher Lake in Lannon Wisconsin on Okauchee Lake restoring and running some Way Kool Fliver Boats including a Classic Hanson Gen-1:
September 2022 - Very Kool Vintage Cypress Gardens Post Card showing a Sweet Gen-1 Flyin' Flivver Boat going around the Ski Jump Ramp! Pretty Neat Find!
September 2022 - Sweet overhead shot from the awesome Aquanuts 50th Waterski Show and a Full House Crowd and their two Fliver Boats sitting in the water ready for the Clowns to fire up the outboards and see some action!
September 2022 - Nothing better than a Barn Find Fliver Boat! Easy to get lost in the possible Outboard Motor HP options. Dig the Diamond Plate Transom - never seen that before:
August 2022 - Way Kool Group Photo at the conclusion of the awesome Aquanuts 50th and a Classic Gen-1 Fiyin’ Flivver!
August 2022 - More from The World Famous Aquanuts Water Shows 50th year anniversary Shindig! Turns out they have not one but two classic Hanson Gen-1 Flyin' Flivver Boats! Is this Kool or What? We Love It!
August 2022 - Fliver Boat Restoration in 1,000+ Easy Steps with Coleen and Christopher Lake! Makes my skin itch just looking at all the glass work they did! Quality Work saving another Fliver Boat from the Junk Heap! A Real Beauty Work of Art!!
August 2022 - Fliver Boat Restoration Maiden Voyage! WELL DONE!!!
July 2022 - The World Famous Aquanuts Water Shows from Wisconsin are celebrating their 50th year anniversary with a big waterski show so the only way to truly round out the awesome event is with an original Hanson Gen-1 Flying Flivver Boat! Wish we could be there for the fun!
July 2022 - When we wuz kids growing up in Wolverine Lake Michigan back in the olden days we would strap Cox 0.49 motors and/or Estes Rockets to a hunk of wood that had the potential to fly or wheel or water or snow! Here's a home built blast from the past of a Fliver Boat based prop driven fun time! Is this Kool or what?
July 2022 - Hey Sweetness, I told you if youse wanna ride in the Fliver Boat you'll need to wear a Life Jacket - them's the rules!
July 2022 - More Fliver Boat fun with Benjamin Jamie Darlington running his Fliver with a Mercury 700 and a tiller! It must be a handful but tons of FAST! Get In, Sit Down, Shut Up and Hold On! We Love It! June 2022 - Way Kool Yellow Fliver Boat with the Hammer Down during the Ski Show at Cypress Gardens 1967!
May 2022 - The Antique Outboard Motor Club with the Mid South Outboarders held their spring meet this past saturday at Sanders Ferry Park in Hendersonville Tennessee. This awesome Fliver Boat made it to the show. Looks to be running a Classic 1962ish Mercury 9.8! Very Kool! May 2022 - Blue Fliver Boat action at Cypress Gardens 1972 and appears to be running a Johnson Outboard. Sitting on the dock waiting for Corky and Corkette!
April 2022 - Awesome Fliver Boat Pics from the 1960’s at Cypress Gardens from Kodak Kodachrome 35mm Slides:
February 2022 - Barn Find of an Orginal Gen-1 Flyin’ Flivver with the gelcoat / paint as it left the factory! 100% Restored and sure looks sweet for being built in 1957!
February 2022 - From Russ in Fort White Florida who located this Fliver Boat. Just when you think youse seen everything Fliver - Ding Bang Ow - another oddity surfaces and even with a seat up front for the Wife! This one has been decked out to the extreme and we Love It!!
January 2022 - Nothing Better than a Fliver Boat Full of Kids!
January 2022 - Fliver Boat Fun with Our Good Pals at the Twin Lakes WI Aquanuts!
November 2021 - Way Kool Flyin’ Flivver Boat write up in the January 1957 Boat Manufacturer’s Association News Letter. Also known as the "Flying Flivver", this boat design was originally built in New Prague, Minnesota by The Moderne Cabinet Works. The company described their boat as "The Sports Car of the Waterways." Mercury Outboard Motors used the Flyin' Flivver at its annual Florida press meeting to demonstrate its outboard motors. Pretty Neat Find!
Way Kool Flivver Boat News Article that appeared in the 1957 Jan Boating Industry Publication and scheduled for presentation at the Chicago Boat Show. Really dig the TV credits too!
October 2021 - It’s that time of the season here in the PNW to put the Summer Toys away for another year. But just in case anyone needs to run this Winter well here’s a New Fliver right out of the mold and ready for action!
UPDATE - Daniel James has dialed in his Fliver Boat and now calls it the... DINGHY OF DEATH!
August 2021 - Okay we don’t know what’s going on here but whoever set up this rig loves Fliverboating and Fishing!
August 2021 - You are able to get in to the shallow fishing spots! We love it!
August 2021 - Cops and Robbers in Cypress Gardens! Publicity photo from the Archives. DO NOT SAY ANYTHING & GET A LAWYER! You don't need a Criminal Lawyer, you need a Criminal Lawyer!
August 2021 - Daniel James just got this Fliver Boat and is planning on running 25 HP Merc. Should scoot pretty good! We always likes this style transom design!
August 2021 - Jeremy Bair just scored the way Kool 1st Gen Hanson Flyin’ Flivver Boat. It’s way old school and modified with a deck! Sweet! Looks pretty clean too! Should make a nice set up with a wheel and a Keller Deadman!
July 2021 - More 1964 Cypress Gardens Fliver Boat Fun and a Fliver Flagging the Skiers at the End of the Run!
July 2021 - Way Kool Fliver Boat Racing in the Early 1960’s at Cypress Gardens Florida! Every Kid’s Dream…
June 2021 - From the Flyin' Flivver Boat James Family in Ohio! They've had this Flivver in their family for at least 60 years! Rini James and his brothers treated the Flivver to a full restoration and got it back on the water! Their Father would have been so happy to know they are loving the Flivver again. Rini has lots of fond memories of this boat and now they are making new ones!
June 2021 - Fliver Boat Fun on the Space Coast Florida Cocoa area Running a 25HP!
May 2021 - New Carpeted Bunks for the Calkins Fliver Boat Trailer. The old carpet wood was pretty soaked rotton from all those years of Fliver Boating - Ready for another 30+ Years! Great opportunity to do some minor Gel Coat repair and then treated to a duel polish and wax buff of the hull!
May 2021 - Serious Fliver Boat Surgery going on here with Ken Vohwinkle. Bottom Line is Every Fliver Boat is Restorable!
May 2021 - Vintage Fliver Boat action at Cypress Gardens. Kinda Blurry from the Original Slides but still Kool!
April 2021 - Three Great Shots of the Fabulous Aquamaids and a Fliver on the Beach! If it's got a Fliver, we'll add it here!
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March 2021 - In Re Joshua David Uran age 63 of Minnetonka, MN died suddenly at his home on March 15. Water was a theme in Josh's life, from his work life to his past times. He was a third generation well driller and learned the business from his grandfather, George and father, Jack. He was skilled at his trade. He loved the lake and the outdoors, whether snowmobiling in the winter or flying across the water in his "Fliver". Gardening was a passion, growing the hottest peppers possible or playing poker, a favorite past time. Josh lived his life fast and hard. He was passionate and fearless, checking in often with his friends and family. He always had good intentions and a big heart but so often his addictions got in the way. He will be missed by many. Preceded in death by his brother, John Uran; grandparents, George and Margaret Uran, Joe and Fran Fronius. Survived by significant other, Theresa Fuller; son, Bill Uran (Tarryn); granddaughters, Berlyn and Harlyn; father, Jack Uran (Cheryl); mother, Reo Uran; sister, Jody Laughlin (Mike); brother, Joel Uran; sister-in-law, Cindy Uran-Woodruff; many nieces and nephews and a multitude of friends.
March 2021 - Kool Fliver Boat History and this time from the Old Boat Trader Magazine! June 13, 1983 advertising a used Royal Fliver for $175. We would scarf these Boat Trader Magazines up every Friday and same for the Auto Trader and usually along with a Six-Pack of Lucky Beer from the Pioneer Market on Venice Beach California and examine them from front to back. It's hard to believe that this is almost 40 years ago - Seems Like Yesterday...
March 2021 - A Blue Corky The Clown Ripping it up in a Blue Fliver! We are tempted to go Fliver Boating this Summer one time with an Outfit like this! Sure would get a lot of Looks at the Boat Ramp!
February 2021 - More Way Kool Fliver Boat History Right Here Baby!
February 2021 - What's Not To Love? Five Water-skiing Chicks and a Fliver Boat. Our guesstimate is Early 1960's in Cypress Gardens Florida!
February 2021 - Fliver Boat Action in South West Michigan with James E. Murray! Awesome Fliver Boat collection including a 1956 Gen-1 running a 1956 Mercury 25 HP Hurricane with a 1 to 1 Ratio Quickie Lower Unit!
January 2021 - Another Fliver Boat Holy Grail Find! Late 1960's Cypress Gardens Program with Corky and Corkette in their Fliver Boat! The Way Kool bit is it's Autographed by Corky and Corkette! How Kool is That?
January 2021 - Okay we don't know what's going on here but just guess someone wanted to see what's inside a Fliver Boat? Lots of New Glass Work Required but Worth Saving this Classic Flyin' Flivver Boat from the Swamps. UPDATE: Turns out this is a Way Kool Father and Son Fliver Boat Restoration in Progress!
December 2020 - Ken Vohwinkle puts the finishing touches restoring his way Kool Hurst Fliver! Check out the sweet paint job - we dig it!
December 2020 - Benjamin Jamie Darlington GPS Clocks In at 61.3 MPH in his 11 foot Fliver running a Wicked Mercury 700X!
November 2020 - A New Era in Fliver Boats! All Composite Carbon Fiber and Very Lite! available in 8.5 and 11 foot models! We want a Custom Big Gold Metalflake exterior and Tan interior to match our Tahiti! It'd be perfect for our 30HP Merc or our Yamato 302! Dig the Original Creekrat Cartoon Studios Fliver Boat Decal Art too!
November 2020 - Okay we don't know who makes these - check out that Transom and 3 Drain Plugs and what looks like drain holes in the back of the sponsons pretty ingenious and Kool! We Love It!
November 2020 - Awesome Hanson Fliver Boat Gen-1! Looks all original and unrestored and ready to hit the water! We also dig the period correct Merc!
November 2020 - Kool Fliver Boat find and looks like from the old Noles mold except for the lip on the Transom - maybe had some repair work done.
October 2020 - More Kool Fliver Boat History from Sam Reitman on The Reitman Fliver and The Fliver Run with Lawry Reitman! Dig the $349 for the Yamato!
October 2020 - Always a Sad Day putting the Fliver Boat away for the long Winter...but keeping good company with the Tahiti!
October 2020 - More Sweety Fliver Boat Finds! We don't know who made this version but we've seen this type of transom before. Pretty Kool Tunnel Hull Hydro too!
October 2020 - Another Way Kool Fliver Boat find! Check out the flat bow. Dig the Noodle Wrap!
October 2020 - Darrell Varley's Fliver which found it's way north to Tennessee near Nashville. it's a 78 model originally orange...had it redone by Fast Glass in Lebanon Tennessee to the red. The engine was rebuilt and restored...it's is a 1963 Mercury 9.8....the last year the 10's were white.
October 2020 - Greetings from the Lakes of Wisconsin with Sam Reitman running Hurst and Osborn Flivers! Dig the Yellow Fliver running a Yamato Racing Motor sometime in the 1980's! Too Kool!
October 2020 - Yamato 80 on a Fliver BABY!!! GET IT - SIT DOWN - SHUT UP - HOLD ON!
September 2020 - We don't know who designed or made this version of the Fliver Boat but check out the gas line through deck and the gas tank in the Cooler treatment:
August 2020 - Okay we don't know who or why but it's a Fliver Boat so it's Kool! Someone took Corky in his Fliver Boat and added "See You In Hell" so too Funny...
July 2020 - A Red Flivver on the Beach at Cypress Gardens:
July 2020 - Pinched offa eBay - A Sweet "Dialed In At Lake-X" Decal - Fliver Boats were Dialed In At Lake-X! We think we still have some of these decals somewhere down at the boat shed.
July 2020 - Found Surfing the Internet - We don't know who did this or what it's about but it is Too Kool to Ignore:
June 2020 - Some Way Kool Cypress Gardens Fliver Boat Fun!
June 2020 - Awesome Vintage Wizard on the Transom of a Fliver!
May 2020 - Another Kool Fliver we've never seen this type before. We wonder who makes these? Check out the flat flooring:
May 2020 - This Fliver wuz advertized as a Pond Dinghy!
April 2020 - Fresh Fliver Right Out Of The Mold!
March 2020 - Doug "Screamin Seaman" Sullivan's Fliver Boat ready for Action! Max HP here! Rumor had it when they fired up this Bad Boy it took off and he almost hit the retaining wall!
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