Playboy Cig
03-25-2016 | 09:01 PM
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As said there is no difference, I had the the first 2001 Playboy built with Dave Hunter Paint. He put a silver bunny head and play boy edition where the one you posted did but he used the Playboy font from the magazine covers. Dave as a surprise hid a bunny on each side hidden in the graphics to surprise me which I thought was really cool. At the time I had the boat built I was into some of the wilder graphics and loved the looks, boat got best graphics at the first FPC poker run to Key West it was in. There is another good thread about these boats. The boat is 2 1/2 feet shorter than a Top Gun and was only a few thousand less. Tres, Glen and Ralph Martin always told me the Gun was a better boat but I had a size constraint for storage.
Pretty sure I have pics of you running the playboy when it was new on the key largo poker run. I was on the 38 TS Miami Two Step. We tied up just south of key largo in a raft off and I crawled all over your boat ogling it. Fell in love with the absolutely classic design from the second I saw it. The first few (black / silver with mahogany floors) were just show stoppers. So suttle and elegant. Absolutely beautiful.
03-25-2016 | 09:05 PM
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I communicate with Glen, Ralph's son so I can ask him. What are the details of your boat?
Ralph is a very interesting character in the high petformance boating circles. He was at Everglades in their heyday and impressed me with a lot of his stories about the first boat poker runs and working with Apache, Cig and Fountain back in the day.
I got into performance boats in 1992 and have been fortunate to meet a lot of great people in the industry. My first trip to Fort Apache in March of 1992 was look at a 28 Apache. Sales man was Rick Conti , while I was there Dan Cambell had a four engine cat tied up to the dock and he le me climb all over it. 188th street was so cool with all of the boat builders. I live in Aventura now and go by there quite often, you would never know what as once there.
I communicate with Glen, Ralph's son so I can ask him. What are the details of your boat?
Ralph is a very interesting character in the high petformance boating circles. He was at Everglades in their heyday and impressed me with a lot of his stories about the first boat poker runs and working with Apache, Cig and Fountain back in the day.
I got into performance boats in 1992 and have been fortunate to meet a lot of great people in the industry. My first trip to Fort Apache in March of 1992 was look at a 28 Apache. Sales man was Rick Conti , while I was there Dan Cambell had a four engine cat tied up to the dock and he le me climb all over it. 188th street was so cool with all of the boat builders. I live in Aventura now and go by there quite often, you would never know what as once there.
03-25-2016 | 09:14 PM
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From: Camdenton MO, LOTO
03-25-2016 | 09:40 PM
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03-25-2016 | 09:43 PM
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Pretty sure I have pics of you running the playboy when it was new on the key largo poker run. I was on the 38 TS Miami Two Step. We tied up just south of key largo in a raft off and I crawled all over your boat ogling it. Fell in love with the absolutely classic design from the second I saw it. The first few (black / silver with mahogany floors) were just show stoppers. So suttle and elegant. Absolutely beautiful.
That was one of the best boating days of my life, had such a great time going through the keys! I got to take my twin daughters who are 22 on the trip last year on my Jupiter and they loved it. Wasn't Miami 2-Step the first stepped Gun?
Speaking of Playboys I will never forget Nauti Kitty pull in skiers behind his Playboy at Boca Grande Island off Key West.
03-25-2016 | 10:38 PM
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I think that boat later belonged to Dreamer?
