Apache powerboats crushing it at The 1989 Key West.
 

Where are these legendary boats now? It would be great to hear from their caretakers or at least from the ones in the know.

nice hardcore machines right there !!!

Gratefully Bob is still around, and passing on his knowledge with regards to the high performance offshore powerboat manufacturing

to the ones who are dedicated to only produce the best possible boats. The last few years Bob has helped the owner couple that runs

the Australian powerboat company CootaCraft perfect their craft. Bob has even shared some of his best designed models with them

and they're slowly but surely making one extraordinary boat at the time from some of Bob's previous molds. I love when owners of

classic Apache boats save them from rotting away, so here's a video from more than 25 years ago with Bob at Fort Apache.


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Awesome video

Sunset Key wasn't developed then?

Sunset Key was those days called Fuel Tank Island and was partially developed then. This is quote from the Federal Government's historical web site.

"The base, (Fuel Tank Island), was sold to a private developer for $17 million, (in 1986). The developer, Pritam Singh, initially promised to build parks, an aviary, and a meditation center in addition to both market-rate and affordable housing and hotel development. Singh and the city signed a development agreement but made more than 12 changes to it, notes McCoy. Because of these changes, affordable housing and open space did not result in a way that benefited the residents of Key West. In 1991 a weak real estate market forced Singh to lose majority control of the redevelopment project to his main creditor, Uni-Cal, a California-based savings and loan institution. Uni-Cal sold the commercial waterfront property and Fuel Tank Island (now called Sunset Island) to Ocean Properties of Boynton Beach, which built a 178-room hotel, a 410-car parking garage, a restaurant, and 45 houses."

The 41' Lip ship raced was redone and named war horse and is in Europe I believe. TKO Motorsports has the 47' Lucky Strike and Little Caesars.