We’re now a 2 cigarette family.
 

Daughter and her husband just picked up this 33 open. Stumbled on the deal. I told them to buy it and flip it since it was such a good price and they’re in the middle of restoring two scarab sports already. However, my daughter (who was raised on cigarettes and loves them) was like, no, we’re keeping this. Went and picked it up this morning and wow! It’s basically immaculate. Come to find out original owner built
it in 98 and garage stored its whole life! 300 hours on the Merc 250 offshores. Stereo, tv all Bells and whistles. Pictures don’t do it justice.

gonna go hit the islands tomorrow.



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Helluva nice find.....your daughter has good taste - a nod to her papa for raising her with good taste and values.

Enjoy the run tomorrow!

Killer!!!! Love it!

Nice score! Sell the Scarabs... That thing looks CLEAN!

noice!

Very Nice, Congrats!

Very nice, Ive wanted one for a while now, first dibs if it goes up for sale Tank, is it full cabin ?

oh yeah. Little vee birth and some bench seats. A sink and a vacu flush head. Actually usable cabin.


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Congrats to the entire family.....

That's a great layout....

Nice, congrats! Is that the only 33' with that paint job? If so, I am pretty sure I saw it on Long Island years ago. I'll try and find a photo of it.

Post #8, pic 1 pretty much sums up your daughters pride in ownership!

Cool to see the whole family hyped up on the new acquisition

there was at least one more with this paint. But the recent owner painted it blues I read of multi colors.
this one has been in Ca since 98.

Ran out to the islands. Nice little run.

boat runs perfect.
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The last pic is great!!!! Similar paint to one of the original 35 straight bottom look alike gun mistress.

we've been at 95-98 heat index of 103 to 107 for two weeks and you guys are in hoodies.......:flag:

It was some what chilly. Overcast.

I'm 50 miles from them and it was 105 today, should have gone to the beach

That`s awesome !
Good for them .

Wow, that's a great find. Those are really hard to find, even more so in that kind of shape.

Congratulations Tank! Awesome find for one of the coolest guys on this forum!

Barry, I was actually going to call you and tell you about it since we talked about these a few months back. But when my daughter found out, she was 100% in. 😂 it just kinda came together.

thanks for the well wishes brotha!

Congratulations! They are great boats!!

Thats exactly what I am looking for for my place in Fort Lauderdale . Congrats . Rick G.
P.S . let me know if you ever decide to sell . Cheers .

Congrats to all... They are great boats. We love ours!

Congratulations to your family, great find. Now you will have two boats to pull over for next year’s Rendezvous. 😁

LOL I'm already getting crap about that. Talking to my daughter and SOL about it actually. If we do it'll be one or the other. But hoping to make it happen.

Do it, will make for an epic trip.
Heck just the road trip there and back would be awesome

Love those, I will see how I like the CC thing and move on from there, the 302 will do the job for now...

Keep us posted as i am moving to the land of CC. Every other day i contemplate parting the Cafe out now instead of dumping more money into it & just find a nice CC to enjoy there.

We made that switch in 2014 after I sold OldSchool II.....and haven't looked back! I have old cars and HD's to fill the "need for noise"!! The best part is that I haven't had a $20,000 lunch since 2014. You know, those days when you just want to take a boat ride for lunch....and then blow some chit up! :angry-smiley-044::picard1:https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...219667ca2.jpeg

depending what's in cafe is deciding factor of parting or not, in this market my top gun is definitely worth the same money if not a little bit more together and running it's got some really nice hardware.

I knew the 302 Scarab is a good riding boat for a smaller center counsel and they're fairly affordable so I went with that my body has had a couple of them and I always told him how good I thought it was for a small boat, hoping to do the reliability thing here lol

these pics are 2/3 of what I have broken the rest I never got pics of... made the decision real easy, hurts because I absolutely love my top gun but every time I go out and start beating it up Something Happens and if you can't beat on your offshore boat I don't want to own one. I just feel like I'm throwing more money at it than I'm comfortable doing.
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land toys help a lot!!!!!
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The 302's are really cool boats. My daughter and SOL bought an 87 and an 09 or so I believe. Unfortunately, both were wet in not only the transom but the stringers. So he stripped both down to bath tub pulling transom and stringers out. In the process of putting new stringers in using CAD diagrams (pretty cool). They'll both be updated with new consoles, interior, fresh power, etc. They're both gonna be nice. But they'll sell both when complete. They're really happy with the Cig. Going to lay some SeaDek down, put a large new Garmin on the dash, re-do the bimini in dark grey (to match new SeaDek) maybe paint it or strip it to all white (though the colors aren't bad in person) and eventually put some new 350's or 400's. He actually is talking about trips. Who knows. I tell him our Cafe gets done first! LOL

Definitely most of these boats are wet mops, Mines rocksolid besides the soft spot over the gas tank by the council which is very common and a very easy fix, i'll deal with that over winter otherwise this thing is great A friend of mine did what you guys did completely go to the boat 100% and start it over, it's a beautiful boat now

Excellente' !!!