1999' 42 Tiger in Classifieds
 

Anyone know this boat. I cannot seem to find much I don't like about it. I'm not a step bottom guy and love the PSI blowers. What would this thing run top end with that set-up?

http://www.offshoreonly.com/classifi...o50790-en.html

Know the boat well. It was originally built for a guy on the east coast and came with Merc 900's / 6's. Sold to a guy named Jim Neeley in California who ran it for a while. Then it sold to a board member - Tim McCray who owned if for a few years. Tim put Teague 1000's in it. It ran in the mid 90's banging the rev limiters with the 1000's. It was under propped though. Tim blew about 3 or 4 motors (always on the starboard side - notice the starboard motor is missing from the engine shots). Tim sold it to a guy named Justin Sivers who quickly flipped it to one of the airs of the Wrigley fortune. He only owned it for aabout a year and it was sold to a guy in Luisiana. That guy, put up a few threads here on OSO about how he wanted to make it the fastest straight bottom Tiger ever built but it never happened. He had some background in drag racing if I recall from the thread and installed those monster motors.

I do know that just before Tim sold it, he had Phil re-do the whol interior and had the paint color sanded/buffed and filled in any area that showed any wear/tear or crack and it was SUPER nice when it went out to Luisiana.

Haven't seen the boat in a few years. It was a bad sum b!tch when it was out here in Cali. I've had many hours behind the wheel and in the passenger seat of that bad boy. Awesome boat.

Great info. The boat looks awesome. My concern would be the power and who did the builds.

Cig3 what's your E-mail??

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When I bought it from Jim Neeley I had Teague go through everything. Basically new engines, I thing we kept the old super chiller and blower, but everything else was new. Transmissions were rebuilt, can't remember if we went through the drives. Phil at Lipship did the cockpit and fiberglass and paint repairs. Kept breaking the starboard motor for some reason, broke twice, and broke two times on Neeley I think. Justin Silvers had the starboard motor rebuilt after I sold it to him. All of this was back in 2004 and 2005, sold it mid 2006 and haven't seen it since. It ran just under 100 probably 96 97. Bob Teague swapped the drives to raise the transom and keep the bow down, those old Tigers like to carry the bows up, not good out here on the left coast. So that's about it, not sure what else you'd like to know.

i know the boat well and have ridden in it many times. the motors are crazy clean and are built with the best of the best. its a true powerboat

I checked out the rig yesterday at a friends shop. In my opinion, it is a lot of boat for the money....but I'm a little biased on big power Tigers:D

Do you remember any speed differences with prop rotation? Did the boat slow down spinning out?

I think we met in Destin by the way, I was on the Hot For Teacher boat. That was the only way I ran the boat, I didn't run it both ways, with the props spinning in both directions so I can't tell you. It wouldn't matter out here anyway, not in the Pacific. There's hardly any days at all here that you can actually run flat out, you're usually up against swells here. So I needed the control more than the speed. But the best I got it to do was either 96 or 98 on GPS inside the break wall in Long Beach. And that was very low on fuel and three people in it with a little bit of chop. I never really played with the props much, started to with some props that I borrowed from Bob Teague, but they actually slowed me down. But it was a solid wave crusher..