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11-27-2006 | 01:27 PM

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Black Tornado

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Re: Active Cats

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Originally Posted by littlenige

I think there were two Toleman cats - one wooden cat with central cockpit and motor mounts - didn´t work at all well (later seen as an orange outboard powered pleasure boat - for Michel Meynard??). The other was the 38´ aluminium cougar - later stretched to around 50´ for the Round Britain Race and installed with quad diesel motors.

I thought when posting the Motor City Magic pic that the hull looked slightly smaller than the other boats - makes sense now. Thanks for all the info gents.

Nigel,Toleman had three Cougar cats. Two wodden and one tin. The second wodden 38',maybe the former Doxford's Limit Up/Peter Stuyvesant ,became Toleman Group in 1983 and was the Venice race winner that year. That cat reappeared in 1986's World Championships in Auckland with Tom Gentry that he have modified it removing the overstructures(cockpit and engines van) putting a smallest and lower cockpit with seats. Gentry won the first race then disappear like usual to him.

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12-01-2006 | 03:09 PM

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littlenige

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Marco you are right. I think it´s the other wooden cat in which he broke the class 1 record on Lake WIndemere. I have a pic of it, in the Peter Stuyvesant colours but cannot upload it right now. Will upload it over the weekend!