Sue and Craig Perry restored this 1983 Duffy Surry Top electric boat after it sank at a neighbor's dock. The delightful addition to the Perrydise fleet adds ambience to a cocktail party and adventure to a cruise with grandhildren. The vessel runs on a golf cart motor on six batteries. Craig researched the boat's history and found that her entire life has been spent here at Lake Martin.
Sue and Craig Perry restored this 1983 Duffy Surry Top electric boat after it sank at a neighbor's dock. The delightful addition to the Perrydise fleet adds ambience to a cocktail party and adventure to a cruise with grandhildren. The vessel runs on a golf cart motor on six batteries. Craig researched the boat's history and found that her entire life has been spent here at Lake Martin.
The 18-foot 1983 Duffy had been tied up at a neighbor’s dock during the 10-foot drawdown of the lake level. Knocking up against the riprap seawall eventually tore a whole in the hull. The owner arrived at the lake in spring and noted that the boat had taken on water, so he pumped it out. Thinking all was well with the Duffy, he went out of town. When he returned sometime later, the boat had sunk to the bottom of the lake – where he left it for a year or so.
When Craig Perry asked the neighbor what he was going to do with the boat on the bottom of the lake, the neighbor said he would cut it up in pieces and remove it.
