24' Donzi Spitfire

[golfmaxgolf]

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A buddy of mine has one. He re-powered it years back with a pair of 320 EFI's w/Alpha SS drives & Stern Jacks. It's been in hibernation for the last 5 years or so.

[golfmaxgolf]

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Cool boat....try donzi.net

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Originally Posted by golfmaxgolf

Can you dig up any pic's from him? i'm looking into history of the boats. Can't seem to find much must have been pretty rare? Have you seen and been on your freinds boat? if so how did it do in bigger water? ride ,attidude really interested 320's sounds very nice and easy! Well any help would be greatly appreciated. Rich

I'll see if he's got any pics. The boat has been shrink wrapped for the last 5 years or so.

Originally, the boat had small blocks with Volvo 280 drives. no power trim. The re-power really woke it up. He had cut the X-Dimention a little too high for the Alpha SS drives, the Land & Sea Sternjacks were a patch for the problem but worked well and planted the drives a bit deeper. This worked well for planing. When trimmed out it would climb back on its tail. This hull has a lot of rocker. Top speed was right around 80. Very good handling boat.

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[mattyboy]

www.donzi.org
www.lgdonziclassic.com


the 24 donzi hull came in several forms

the spitfire which is like most donzi classic a 2 +3 seating with no cuddy

the spirit was a cuddy cabin version with a metal framed windshield

the doral was a cuddy with high back fiberglass molded seat with a storage compartment it also had a very unique fiberglass framed windshield

the el peascador a fishing version CC

the hulls were "monohull" construction, from what i understand that the tub/deck and the hull were glued together to form one piece

they ride very well but need real power to get them moving and need alot of trim to get them up and going

there is a very nice single in MI for sale now most were twin sbc and volvos

I have been searching for an old one that ran on my lake
"jamseyboy" it had warmed up sbc and volvo edrives

check out the model list on www.donzi.org it has picstures of all of the 24 models

BTW the 24 was designed by harry scheoll (sp) and the molds went on to sonic and other mfgr's from what i heard al the 4 models same hull with different modular pieces that made them different

made from 74 to 77 by donzi in the variuos 4 models all of which are pretty uncommon

the spitfire is the rarest of the 4 have not seen many el pescadors either

[h2oboater]

Here is the Doral,,in Mich..

Originally Posted by mattyboy

www.donzi.org
www.lgdonziclassic.com


the 24 donzi hull came in several forms

the spitfire which is like most donzi classic a 2 +3 seating with no cuddy

the spirit was a cuddy cabin version with a metal framed windshield

the doral was a cuddy with high back fiberglass molded seat with a storage compartment it also had a very unique fiberglass framed windshield

the el peascador a fishing version CC

the hulls were "monohull" construction, from what i understand that the tub/deck and the hull were glued together to form one piece

they ride very well but need real power to get them moving and need alot of trim to get them up and going

there is a very nice single in MI for sale now most were twin sbc and volvos

I have been searching for an old one that ran on my lake
"jamseyboy" it had warmed up sbc and volvo edrives

check out the model list on www.donzi.org it has picstures of all of the 24 models

BTW the 24 was designed by harry scheoll (sp) and the molds went on to sonic and other mfgr's from what i heard al the 4 models same hull with different modular pieces that made them different

made from 74 to 77 by donzi in the variuos 4 models all of which are pretty uncommon

the spitfire is the rarest of the 4 have not seen many el pescadors either

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[mattyboy]

i forgot about that yellow doral that is another solid boat in MI

I was thinking of this single spitfire

http://www.mackinacseaplanes.com/rcs...3/24_donzi.htm

http://viciousmarine.com/id12.html

this was listed on craigslist a month or so ago