What is this ??

[Mitch]

A guy I know across the river from me, just bought a 69 B31, Bahia Mar, with a hard top that looks like a B25, with a bridge, and two stations. Is this factory, if so how many were made ?? If not was it aftermarket, or just something someone created?? Thanks for any info on this model.

[Bruce]

What your describing is the 31 sedan with an aftermarket, possibly a 25 fly bridge wrap.

[Capt. Mike Holmes]

The 31 Bahia Mar hardtop is pretty common on the Texas coast, more common that the open Bahia Mar, for some reason - probably because it's drier to steer. Like Bruce said, the bridge is almost certainly an add-on.

[Bob H.]

Mitch, The boat sounds like the Kimberly Ann, I looked at her a few years back, it is a flybridge from a 25 Bertram, had been repowered with twin yanmar 315s, 1 3/8 shafts, beautiful gelcoat, had some tabbing and bulkhead issues, had been fished hard...

[scot]

There's a Bahia Mar hardtop in Port Arthur that's been sitting on the hard with no engines, deck, interior....totally stripped to bare hull for 10 years. I assume the glass is seriously compremized from the UV's?? The boat's outdoors. I always thought this was to be a shame to allow something like that to be eaten by the elements. The guy had the exterior sprayed and then just stopped. :cry:

[Capt. Mike Holmes]

Where in Port Arthur? next time I'm up that way I miht give it a look?

[Mitch]

Yeah, It's not a sedan, for sure it's a bahia mar model. Yes it was the kimberly ann, now the jenna leih. So the hardtop is factory, but they weren't made with a flybridge?? So there's such a model as a bahia mar hardtop?? Not all that common I suspect. The guy that bought it is asking all kinds of questions, and I'd like to be able to give him the deal. Whatever, Thanks, for the info. I'll hook him up with the site if he needs more.

[scot]

Mike....sent you a PM.

[Mikey]

Mitch
Can we get a picture of the beast? My express is a hardtop, another fairly rare beast. Top is like the top from the 25. At Port Eades one year I took measurements of the Judge's hardtop to compare to mine. Thought they might be the same. No, just the design.