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www.raceboats.com for some more pics. Some pics of DF Young and Popeye were floating around on offshoreonly.com a while back.
As far as the number of Platinum hulls that have been built. The grand total would be five. There are a total of three Rage cats and two Raptor V-bottoms in existence. Popeye and DF Young are the two Rage #6 catamarans that have been built. The third cat is a BPM drive hull that has not yet been rigged for any application. Of the two V-bottoms, one is rigged and one is a completely bare hull. Both Raptors are Autoclave cured carbon prepreg with a nomex honeycomb core. Very high tech, very light, and pretty darn fast. The Raptor that has been rigged runs 90+ with twin HP500s. Not too shabby for a 41 foot V-bottom.
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) All the Tencaras that have been built were built before Platinum bought all the rights to the design. I think the total number of Tencaras built was a bit higher than two though--possibly five or six? I'm not sure where all of them ended up. I can name at least one more for sure though. The Helly Hansen boat that burnt down to the waterline in a race in Norway was a Tencara.
