35' CafeRacer With Boxes and #5's
 

Sweet Rig. Would love to know how she handled with Boxes and 5's. She has to be one of a kind. Anyone know her?

http://www.offshoreonly.com/classifi...er-o64308.html

Looks brand new.

That's a sweet looking cafe!

Check out his web site pics. Looks like it was in a museum.

Nicest Café Ive seen in awhile.

Super, super clean $32,000 boat! Sorry if I have offended... just my observation.

----I don't know the owner but know where he lives as I have seen the boat on the lift in front of his house. Very nice piece. I also think I know his insurance man,,,LOL!........Bill S

Nice Boat but anyway you look at it, you are going to be in to it for a least 100K after engines, transmissions, and exhaust. Let alone labor and nickle and dime stuff. Let alone a trailer.

Dean

That a very nice looking cafe.

Did the kne that was at TNT ever sell? It was a 99 and looked literally brand new. Cobras or chief power I believe.

It's sweet, needs some coin to complete and no trailer

WOW that would be perfect for me.... I can just leave it on the dash even longer....haha

Think that boat was best bag for buck in the cafe market currently.

This one is beautiful but I agree a bit over priced.

Beautiful. I like those types of paint schemes. Pretty sure there are a few Top Guns with similar paint.

Saw the price tag and said "oh sick I gotta send this to.... Oh wait, no motors or trailer. F'n A lol

There was a cafe for sale not long ago, that had tired old TRS drives, cable steering, 450hp engines, on a poor trailer, that someone thought was worth 60k because it had fresh paint.

Theres a another Cafe with no power and #3's where a guys asking 40k here. I'd GLADLY pay 5k more for a boat with #5's and boxes over regular 3's and no boxes.

Theres another Cafe with 500's and bravo's , asking price 63k......



I agree this one might be priced on the high side without power, but at least it has about 20-25k in drives, boxes, steering on the back end. Those aren't TRS, bravos, or #3's. It looks to be a really nice piece. I personally, would rather buy something like this, with a real set of drives on it, add my own power/rigging to it, rather than have to go thru someone elses stuff thats usually in need of an overhaul/redo. As far as a trailer, getting one with the boat purchase is nice, IF its sitting on a nice myco, manning, eagle, etc, thats built for the hull. But if its a POS, I'd rather them knock a few bucks off, and get myself a new trailer.

IMO, for a guy who loves Cafe's, this one certainly has the setup for big power. Building HP is easier and cheaper these days, than re rigging a boat with #5's or 6's or arnesons.

Yeah your $20-25k drives # is on the money. I've been searching through every classified trying to find what I thought would be reasonably priced 3a or 5's. But they apparently still bringing in double than what I was hoping. Plus new props, steering etc. Would be much easier to start with one already rigged & just drop in the power.

Fact is the boat is ready for big power. Blower scoops already in place. Drives to hold the power. I loved my 3A's and mine were mounted high so they acted like 5s. Had almost 900HP. Transmissions were Huber 1200s. Just changed the oil in the drives, never gave me an issue. In fact the oil always looked brand new when I changed it. Drives are a pay me now, or pay me later sort of thing. I wish my TS had SSMs. Put some power and with those boxes you could have a rare 100+ mph cafe. Haven't seen one of those


Made a mistake about the hatch, going to need mods to accommodate blowers/ chillers

I don't 35K is out of line with those drives and the nice condition of the boat. I wouldn't mind having it myself!

Then it is time for you to buy again!!!!

Bigger power yes. "Big Power" as in supercharged no. The scoops you see do not belong to the Cig in question.
See image No. 6 in the advertisement for reference.

Beautiful Cafe. but finding someone with the cash and wants it bad enough to put it all together isn't going to be a walk in the park.

I made a mistake, I thought the boat had a different hatch. Put hatch modification for life wears into the $$$$equation

SKRAMER - it handles just fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZz3a69SA80

i cant wait till i can get into another cig again. i bet a cafe or TG at 90 would be an absolute riot!! is this the only cafe we know about with 5/s on boxes?

[QUOTE=gmissana;4390126]SKRAMER

Do you know what power was in the boat? and what speeds it ran?

Would love to know some performance numbers also.

Thought that was St Clair river, then read your profile location. Nice cafe.

Video is from the St Clair river. Profile is St Clair which is on the river. For sale by ACM which is in the same area.