A bit off subject(31s) But Pat, your 32 is my all time favorite boat and if someday I get crazy enough to restore a boat it WILL be one of your 32s.
Even if it is a few short, it the best all round twin out there!

I heard from a local guy who been around a bit, that the bottom was a old 31 Excalibur Mold, and the deck was pulled from a Sonic? Is that true?

I know Excalibur in the late 70's had a straight 31 Vee bottom. Then somehow Reggie was involved, and Excalibur then had a 31 pad bottom. Then reggie had a 10 meter pad bottom.

So would it be safe to say the 32 AT owners are cousins with a Fountain, sonic, and Tuff Noogies?

Yes. It is all true.

That is the exact reason I stopped building the 32. I had lawsuits from 3 other companies for infringements. As part of the deal cutting up those boat molds, sadly, were something I agreed to do..

That's really cool stuff. (not the lawsuits but the boat hulls).

Its amazing how many boats came from this or that. I remember a buddy had a 31 pad bottom Excalibur, and the boat was darn fast for the power it had.

That it was after I was involved. Go to US trademarks and you will see I did this in 1994 under Active Thunder Boats. I wanted to be at the front of the phone book.

Ziggy was Cannon Powerboats. Never Active Thunder. My first boat from these molds was a Cannon Powerboat. The name sucked. I bought it and changed it.

You cut up the mold to keep the name.
Can Bob build one or is he also out.

Ha! I had often wondered where the "Active" came from!

No, I made that part up. We were using the 32 hull mold for the 28. It will become obsolete, too, when the 29 is done.

Bob who?

Bob Oetringer (sp?) he goes by throttleman on here. I've heard a bunch of times on here that he designed the 32 originally. Here's a quote I found:

Philo312
02-01-2013, 04:25 PM
Thunder Boats was started by Bob Oetringer,he sold the molds and they eventually became Active Thunder. Bob can be reached at [email protected] and is located in North Ft. Meyers. He is one of the good guys out there and does a great job on anything he works on. Bud


x2! Thunderboat Bob. That boat currently sits at his "compound" in N. Ft. Myers. He's a fantastic guy and a hellova boat builder/restorer. He's a wealth of knowledge and one of the good guys.

LOL:funnypost:

Philo312
02-01-2013, 04:25 PM
"Thunder Boats was started by Bob Oetringer,he sold the molds and they eventually became Active Thunder. Bob can be reached at [email protected] and is located in North Ft. Meyers. He is one of the good guys out there and does a great job on anything he works on. Bud"


I've had lunch and drinks with him and seemed like a "good guy".

However I bought the molds from the gentleman that owned them, bank rolled the company and was never paid back. He was in a hurry to take my money when I mentioned one large check and added "today".

The company was only a coupla years old when this all happened. I believe inception was '89 and first sold to "Ziggy" in '93 and I bought the molds in '94ish.

I have a 1994 31' The boat is now in Michigan and was originally "Big Thunder Marine" The writing down the side has now been removed and it is rigged with pro charged 454 mpis with bravo drives. I just bought the boat last year it is in excellent shape and the interior is like new. Haven't had much wheel time with it though since I bought it in October. I'm currently doing some updates to the dash and gauges and adding a nav unit. The boat won LOTO in 1995 with Bob Morgan at 107.9 mph and I have no idea how it was rigged at that time but judging by the size of the humps in the hatch its was supercharged with a lot more cubic inches than it has now. .

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I've got the 93' 31, all white out of Illinois chain o lakes. Picked it up from grand sport center back in fall of 15'.

i think mine is #12 1991 31ft saw a post from 2013 any one have history on it?

If you have #12 Widow Maker, then that is tfarmer's old boat. It was very nice back when he had it here on Ky Lake. He is still on here if you want to message him. I'm sure he would give you any info that he kows about it.

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Anyone have a copy of the article with the boat on the cover?