Dirty Laundry Cougar

[I'CE]

Originally Posted by Strip Poker 388

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Strip, nice ol photo with the spirit of the amazon in the back ground a 4-engine aluminum cat was "spirit" a cuv or a cougar thanks, ?

[I'CE]

Originally Posted by MarkSmith

You are correct. Mikey Friedman owns it among many others from Chicago. The boats are kept in Florida.

mark, you still have the OE ?

[I'CE]

Originally Posted by AIR TIME

smitty smith was a funny guy, I was talking to him at 94 kw, talked about him and joe mach, and I tend to talk a lot, so my wife said can you take him for a ride and he sad sure he can sit on my lap. he was throttling the yellow couger from canada I think a 38 footer, could be wrong. its sad he passed away too. that was when gentry rolled went in to a coma that sucked and passed away years later.I was talking to BOBBY MOORE the winning throttleman after the race in open class 94, I was happy that he won but we were sad about TOM , NOT KNOWING how he was doing.that was a good week of racing I think there was over a 100 boats.

Artie, I was there too, saw Gentry roll ! man what a shame with all he did for offshore a true hero ! ps: shout @ me dude !

[MidOcean]

Tom Akoury Throttled "Black Duck". The name of which is interesting... A trivia question. What was the name of the other boat that was in that factual book about prohabition era rum runners?

[Big Time]

Originally Posted by Strip Poker 388

http://www.niteimage.com/clubs/BlackDuck/RacingTeam.htm

Yup, that was my dad's old boat. He still has the restaurant which is loaded with pics on the wall of old and new race boats

[fastdonzi]

Originally Posted by MidOcean

Tom Akoury Throttled "Black Duck". The name of which is interesting... A trivia question. What was the name of the other boat that was in that factual book about prohabition era rum runners?

The Cigarette.....

[MidOcean]

Originally Posted by fastdonzi

The Cigarette.....

Give that man a cigar!

[Jupiter Sunsation]

Not sure which boat this is but it is the one Michael Friedman owns. It was on display but didn't run the poker run that day.....

It was a aluminum boat/ riveted.....

http://www.flpowerboat.com/gallery/d...album=1&pos=89

[T2x]

Originally Posted by Jupiter Sunsation

Not sure which boat this is but it is the one Michael Friedman owns. It was on display but didn't run the poker run that day.....

It was a aluminum boat/ riveted.....

http://www.flpowerboat.com/gallery/d...album=1&pos=89

I love you guys..... The man asks about a COUGAR and gets a deluge of comments and recollections of CUV's, Skaters, Apache's, Shadows and Lord knows what else.......

The two (2) red aluminum Dirty Laundrys were both CUV's (That's a boat manufacturer from Italy) and the larger, newer 4 engined hull is the one pictured.....

There was one red, white and blue, Cougar (boat manufactured in England) previous to those hulls called Dirty Laundry and it had air compression issues in the tunnel to the extent that it didn't carry a load well and ran very "wet"...not a good Poker Run platform. That is the hull this thread is about.

Prior to those three big boats (Open and Superboat class), Joe was very successful in the modified class with a 32 Skater (boat built in Michigan) "Dirty Laundry" that I believe was later sold to the Duntemans and became "Agitator".... a VERY competitive boat to be sure.

T2x

[h2oboater]

Originally Posted by Ryan Beckley

Before the Cougar there were a couple 32' Skater named Dirty Laundry, Tommy Akoury throttled for Mach Before Hurley Stepp then Smitty Smith....

Here is the 32' Skater Dirty Laundry that later became the Agitator of Allan & Kurt Dunteman.