Welcome to the club, very clean boat, congratulations!

Will you be able to tell the story behind this boat ? Being stored that long yet that nice is a find.
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Long and interesting story that still continues today, but the short of it is: Boat begins life as a Kevlar 1982 Mistress purchased new by Sheik Khalifa from Bahrain, Arabian Gulf
Michael Aronow told me it could have been a Don boat since he was still there for part of 1982, anyway, it leaves the Cigarette factory as a blue & yellow boat with Hawk insignia
on the side and ships to the Arabian Gulf
Around this same time Don Aronow sells Cigarette for the last time in the latter part of 1982 to Jerry Jacoby of Hawk engines (this could be why the boat had a Hawk insignia on the
hull side) The Mistress is used for several years in the Arabian Gulf before it's shipped back to the U.S.A for re-power (Flagship Marine co. in Punta Gorda Fl. is given the task to
disassemble the boat 600 H.P. 528 cu. in. change to 650 H.P. 540 cu. in.... along with out drives, transmissions, almost everything mechanical was taken out of the boat to be refit new.
In the middle of the boat being torn apart Khalifa's mechanic dies, due to that death the Sheik says he doesn't want the boat any longer. a legal battle ensues where $$$ is owed to
Flagship for the work done & storage fee's ...a lien is put on the boat............after 8 years in court Flagship Marine Co. becomes the new owners.
In 1995 the owner of Flagship decides he wants the Mistress to be his own personnel boat.......The hull is torn down to the stringers and everything upwards is replaced new or rebuilt.
Those 540's were never installed in the boat due to the years of litigation, but now the owner of Flagship (Tom) decides to go with a pair of 575's (Flagships top fuel injected engines)
new SSM 3a's Imco lowers, Imco hyd. steering, new dash, new cockpit, new cabin, new gel coat, new rub rail, new engine race hatch..........matching Myco triple axle trailer etc; etc;
The engines are dynoed @ 658HP......boat is prop tested and is run for a total of 12 hours......at the end of 1995 the Mistress is backed into a climate controlled building where it will
sit for 21 years...................on March 16, 2016 the engines were fired up for the first time!.......Now, tell me I'm still dreaming!!!

scippy you should have what you just wrote put on a 3' x 5' framed picture of that boat over the fire place in the living room ( ya know if you have a fire place )

that is one hell of a find congratulations

Holly chit skippy!

How did you find hear about it?

This is how I first heard about the Mistress, Rob (Rhino rob) brought my attention to it when he bought the 29' Scarab.......although one person before me seemed to be making a deal for it
it didn't happen for what ever reason...I sure as hell wasn't passing on it......http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/c...ab-29-a-2.html

Get rid of the mufflers and put a bigger Cig logo on the side and your done!!!

Always look in the background of pictures. Never know what's lurking. Awesome score!!!!

man that is one cool ride. I absolutely love EFI retro'd into older hulls. Do you know anything about the systems on your boat? Originally that intake was developed by Arizona Speed an Marine in the 90 but quickly snapped up by Merc as well as Innovation for the Volvo 600HP. What a great wave crusher ya got there :cool:

Kreed.......I agree, Can't believe I'm so lucky with some small issues like that and not having to throw big $$$ at it because most everything is done & new!