flying fish

I`ve seen it recorded as 46ft,so both Richie Powers and Brownie are both incorrect in saying it was 48ft in previous posts,which I find hard to believe,and the diatribe I recently posted refers to it being stretched in various stages from 48ft to 50ft,so that`s wrong as well.Nah! like most things the truth is with the guy who did the work in extending it.Step up please and put us out of our misery.

flying fish

The guy who could give a definitive answer on this,and I know he reads these posts,is Pete Currington.So come on Peter,get out of that directors chair,and walk over to the drawing cabinet at Cougar and reveal all,unless of course youv`e had a bonfire on the Warsash foreshore of all these records.

7xchamp

The one who absolutly knows is Sammie James who was the T-Man on that boat and was in charge of that race team and boat. The story goes that he cut the pickle fork ends off and blunted the nose to fit into his garage over by Lake Okeechobee. It was basically the joke of the industry at the time. He rigged the boat there maintained it there etc. I would find it hard to believe that TG or Sammie would order a 46` when evryone else was building 50` that`s why we say it was at least a 48` or 50` then after Sammie performed the surgery it became a 46`, so same story in reverse.

fastdonzi

I went there to Sammie's shop in La Belle Fla to paint it. same shop where he made stepped bottom air boats to drag race.

flying fish

With reference to post 13,was the forward 2ft that was cut off put back as a portable bow section,because somehow I`m convincing myself that in the pic in post 1,the gunwale line at the bow looks quite straight and not as a fair line,so it raced as a 48ft but was kept in the shed as a 46ft.