This might be the most famous and widely seen Sande Ace. It hung upside-down near the entrance door of the Sande Boat Works in Belfair, Washington for nearly 30 years. When the Boat Works' owners, Jerry and Wendy, decided to retire, they sold the Ace at auction along with everything else.
Dan Poole's father bought the next to last Sande Ace built. It came with a Merc 400 but they upgraded about 10 years later to a 50 HP Merc. Dan skiied and raced the boat around North Bay and Case Inlet. He and his brother jumped yacht waves like the wave runners of today and took it out in very rough weather. Dan is amazed that they survived.
Roy purchased this single cockpit version of the Sande Ace several years ago after it was advertised for sale in the midwest. After a while, Bob Parks took on the job of restoring it and it ended up in Barney's hands. Click here to see the Parks Page and Bob's four rebuilds including this Ace.
Its current owner is Mark Ormiston whose family had a Sande Ace at their place on the North Shore Road of Hood Canal. Click here to see the Parks Page and Bob's four rebuilds including this Ace.
John Baisch bought his Ace in 1988
after spotting a classified ad in the sailboat category. It is shown here a few years later
with his son Greg on Whidbey Island's Useless Bay. It is shown with its classic 1959 Mark 58A Mercury motor. The boat is the spitting image of Ned's.
These photos show the second refit done in 2002. John used 4 mm Okume mahogany plywood on the deck. Epoxy anchored the floor stringers and new multipiece midsection. A new center console is also in the plans.
The extra bracing of the transom was done by the previous owner. Most rebuilds of a Sande Ace have beefed up the transom.
Bob Parks bought the Baisch Ace and restored it to the double cockpit configuration as shown below at the 2013 Ace Rendezvous. Click here to see this and three more of Bob's rebuilds.
Missourian Arlie Fagan knew he had his work cut out for him when got this Sande Ace. Some Aces came with a windshield but this one, added by a previous owner, was something else! As a warmup, he even built a scaled down 9-foot version of the original 1956 Ace.
Arlie had lots of boat and motor projects, though, and eventually sold the boat to Dave Renton and his son, Bob. Dave and Bob got the project moving but it turned out there was too much wood damage to repair. So, what's the next best thing to do if you can't restore a Sande Ace? Yes, build a new one! That's the plan.
Dale was only the second owner of this Sande Ace. He first had Tom at the Grapeview Point Boat Works replace some planking and then epoxy the entire bottom using Dynel cloth. Dale then finished the restoration and had it zipping around Mason Lake.
You bet! Fred B. had a 70 HP Mark 78A but replaced it with an 85 HP Merc 850 shown in these old snapshots sent by Thom in Shelton. The first photo was taken on Lake Sammamish. The Ace is then shown just flying on the prop over Hood Canal even though the steering has been moved to the front.
Ed and Ned both remember a Sande Ace with a Johnson outboard at a buoy off a locally well-known place called Pebbleshore on the North Shore Road of Hood Canal. We now know that Ace belonged to the Mathews family!
Pebbleshore was featured in a 1960 edition of the Seattle Times in a feature called "Pacific Northwest Living." Here's a portion of a picture that shows the Mathews family and their Ace.
