84 Mistress Project
 

Hello all, I just purchased an 1984 Cigarette 35S Mistress that I will be restoring. I am located in Thailand (originally from California) and the boat will not arrive here for nearly 2 months. I am new to the whole boating thing, so I am sure I will be referring to all the experts on here for advise. So, thank you in advance.

The question I have is whether the Mistresses had the counter rotating engines, or just the drives were set up as counter rotating, with normal rotation engines?

Thank you,
Rosty

Normal rotation engines, drives do the direction change. Good luck with the project!

Thanks for the quick reply.

Which one did you purchase? Can you post a link to the ad?

Pics please!

congrats! I love mine!

Sam, apparently they removed the ad already. It was the one from Grande Yachts in MD advertised on BoatTrader and other sites.

http://s885.photobucket.com/albums/ac59/rostyv/

Links to the Cig

That boat was located a couple miles from me.i checked it out at one point. The exh is real low and it has a unique windshield. It is a pretty extensive project, best of luck!

Actually, I have seen several Mistresses with exhaust that low. I guess it goes into the water to keep the sound low. I assume the bend in the elbow is enough to keep the water from backing into the exhaust. Althoug some that I have seen had flappers on the pipes as well. It will be quite a project. Luckily, it is coming to Thailand, where labor is much cheaper. ;). If anybody else knows anything about this boat, I would love to hear it. Thanks

Ahh thats the Mistress. I have seen it on here before. Great looking boat, good luck with it and have fun fixing it up!

i used to see in ocean city ,md. older guy had it .i was still on the yard at grande yachts on wednesday .did the trailer go with it ?

I believe they should be picking it up today. It was a repo boat that has been neglected for a while. The survey came back ok. They said the trailer wasn't road worthy so I took their word for it and didn't take it. It did look like crap in the photos, but who knows? Maybe Grande wanted to keep it for themselves. ;)

The trailer was a Myco and it barely had enough structural integrity to support the boat sitting still!!!!

Haha, that's what I was told. The broker said they would have to pay somebody to haul that thing away.

Still wasn't able to have that thing picked up. Grande Yachts is apparently having a boat show or something and are too busy to deal with my boat. So, looks like Wednesday will be the day.

I looked at that one as well, but i ended up with a different boat. mine needs a lot of work as well. I really liked the windshield your boat has, you dont see a lot like that. I think it changes the look of the whole boat. congrats and good luck with the project. looking forward to more pics.

Thanks Bowtie. They finally got her picked up on Wednesday. She is getting cleaned and prepped for shipping as we speak and should be on her way to port on Monday or Tuesday. From there it will be close to 2 months before I can see exactly what I bought and where to start.