I've got a few. That boat belonged to 2 friends of mine. The first guy owned it for about 5 years, then last year he sold it to another friend of ours from the same harbor, who was also one of his best friends.
When the second guy bought it, he had the engines pulled, and totally gone through by Wesco engines. While the boat was apart, he changed his mind several times about the HP he wanted to make. He finally decided to go with 850 hp. While the engines were on the dyno, we played around with pulleys, and I believe we seen around 950 with about 7 lbs.

Since the original plan was to remove the scoops off the hatchs, he decided to not go with intercoolers. The way the boat was when I brought it to Shogrens, the day before we seen 85 mph on a hand held GPS out here on lake Michigan. But, we had a pr. of my props on it too. 17 x 31 4 bladers.

I know quite alot about it as I helped the first owner do alot of the maintenece on it from 02-06. If you wanted to, I could put you in contact with him, as I'm sure he could answer any question you might have with er.

These pics are with the second owner, Mike, when I pulled it out of the water for him, in my driveway the day it left for Shogrens, and the last ride in it on lake Michigan.

Frank

There are so many stories and some hard to believe!

The Warrior/Sand Bagger Story was one that stuck in my mind because it was worth a day in court... The two boats, the Apache and a Flat Deck Top Gun. These guys always went at it and one time the Bagger was pushing Warrior towards the beach so the Warrior wouldn't back down and came close enough to the beach that he ran over the lines in the swimming area and kept going. SBPD was called by the beach club and both men had their day in court..

Lots of stories with the coast guard, divers, NYPD....too funny! You bought a piece of history and as usual every Apache has a story!

do you have any pictures of the flat deck cig ?

Sure do....sorry for the quality in the first pic but it's old and scanned.

Frank ask Leaf the story about the two scuba divers off Sandy Hook.

I just told him that one

You know him way better than I do so I'm sure you have some even better stories.

I knew one of the divers brother from college .They were really shook up for a while over that one.Another time i am coming out of Ichabods ,and hear sirens.The Apache Warrior pickup is being chases by 3 Rumson cops (Steve and Red were at Barnicles for hours,left speeding and apparently did not notice half the towns police force behind them trying to get them to pull over)Thank God i had a buddy with me who was a State Policeman who interveened or their *sses would still be in jail.

Just a quick update from the weekend

some more from the weekend