PM board member Top Banana- Charlie McCarthy. He's got a fairly nice Cig 28 that he's been looking to sell. It has small blocks and is complete and running. You could probably do a use-it-while-restoring restoration on it and have less $$ in it that that orphan you're looking at. It was on Ebay with a reserve in the low teens.

http://www.historicraceboats.com/classifieds.htm

I bought the boat right below it- the 24 Cig and my friend bought the 28 Sportsman below that- we're re-doing it as a "007 raceboat" replica.