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?