tin boat problem...OLD COUGAR

[littlenige]

Quadruple outboards? That´s hilarious!! Needs big block V8´s or lambo´s, or turbines, or...............anything but outboards!! (It may be heavy and old, but I love it.)

[Papache]

Originally Posted by Black Tornado

Like I just have wrote in the thread "Systems" that unrigged Cougar seems a sister boat of Reporter,the 38' that Curtis used to race in 1988.
It seems be a 38' with the tunnel extended behind the sponsons.

that is this boat know

[Black Tornado]

Originally Posted by Papache

that is this boat know

Thats Endangered Species have got nothing to do with Reporter of Curtis.

[cougar46]

Well your all wrong

1) The black unrigged boat was built originally for Mandy Fernandez or Edd Sheer; it’s a similar design to the Seahawk/Reporter, we supplied two identical hulls to them in 1990.

2) Reporter was the old Seahawk 36', last I heard many years ago it was still rotting away in Italy, it was a fantastic boat, I raced with Steve Curtis in it during the1988 season, we came 2nd in the world championships in Guernsey behind Mr Buzzi in four-engined 46’ mono during a very very rough week of racing, had about ten monos behind us before the next cat.

3) Endangered Species was originally called Supercat and was raced in England by Barry Sampson & Bill Bonner, the engines where Bonner V12 Jags, it then was sold to Robert Cooke who raced it as Champaign Mumm & John Player Special, It was then sold to Richard Strutton and we converted it to the centre cockpit layout with canopy, Richard S never used it and I sold it to Errol Lanier in the US and it became Endangered Species, I think the owner was Clay Wilson, that was in the early 90’s

[Black Tornado]

Many Thanks Cougar 46. Your experience it's very helpful to us!
I don't know that Reporter was the former Seahawk 36'!
By the way I wrote that the cat unrigged was similar to Reporter and that Endangered Species wasn't Reporter and you have confirmed alls two.

[Black Tornado]

Cougar46, rumors about "Cougar" where Steve Curtis won the World Title in Key West 1987 said that it was the 41'(?) ,third and last cat of Sal Magluta. He never raced with it because was prisoned before the cat was rigged.
It's true?
The others two cats,36' Seahawk and the 38'(?) Team Seahawk was new boats or former something?

[nocigarette]

Originally Posted by glassdave

LOL . . so ya met Wayne huh? yes he has some interesting thoughts on the 'ol Cougar. its actually a pretty cool piece, never been rigged or wet. i will probably stop an see him tommorow. anybody got any questions on the boat? i know he has been wanting to move that thing though. he was even playing with the idea of putting some kind of canopy on it and deisels. i agree the outboars wont do that boat very well, hell toss in a set of 750's an have some fun with it .

Wayne has been around boating for some time an has had some interesting rigs. think he just got rid of one of those big 'ol Nitro's. 43 footer i think.

THAT OLD NITRO IS IN GIBRALTER MICH IT IS BROKE DOWN MORE THAN IT RUNS...........I AM BLOWN AWAY THIS GUY IS GOING TO PUT OUTBOARDS ON IT....MY UNCLE VIC IS DUING ALL THE FAB WORK.................ONE THING I WILL SAY IS THAT WHAT VIC DOES IS GOING TO BE PERFECT....I WILL KEEP YPU GUYS POSTED ON THE PROGRESS............

[littlenige]

So this became this?

[littlenige]

Thanks for the info Pete.

[littlenige]

Was Reporter extended? I always thought it was around 38´. Always loved that boat. Shall never forget the Cowes race when (maybe you were on board?) over the PA system the commentators relayed the fact that you guys were screaming up the Solent at around 110mph trying to catch up and win whilst in second place.