tin boat problem...OLD COUGAR
 

ok let me say i am no pro but.....................

YOU GUYS TELL ME WHY A GUY FROM MICHIGAN WOULD PUT OUTBOARDS ON THIS, IT IS OBVIOSLY A OLD COUGAR ALL ALUMINUM AND IT HAS THE PLATES FOR ARNESONS ALREDY WELDED TO THE HULL IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE IT HAS NEVER BEEN RIGGED.............BAD ASS I JUST GOT BACK FROM LOOKING AT IT.......IT LOOKS LIKE A OLD BOB KAISER BOAT...............I THINK IT NEEDS A PAIR OF WICKED BLOWER MOTORS AND PUT ARNESONS ON IT........HOW WILL HE EVER FIGURE OUT THE X DEMISION FORTHE OUTBOARDS......HE HAS A CEAPPY SET OF BRACKETS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO WELD TO THE BACK OF THE BOAT.............

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I spoke to the guy also about buying it, he also told me he was putting 2.4 outboards on it . i told him he was nuts, and had to educate him that merc has not made a 2.4 in about 10 years. that boat will never get out of its own wake with 4/250hp outboards. that boat was never owned by bobby kaiser. the problem i see , is that it would cost a fortune to rig and still be a 14 yr old boat. probably the only guy who could rig that boat properly would be bob's old t-man errol lanier.

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are you sure it is not kaisers old cougar? looks like the systems boat to me

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the boat has never been rigged, not a hole in it. i was told it was built for howard arnesson

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It was not built for Howard Arneson. We never had an aluminum boat. We had the WOOD boats..

It was built for Arneson Surface Drives. The wedge plates were welded to the hull.

ASD8-16 are the drives that were supposed to be rigged on the boat.

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what happen ,why has it never be rigged

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LOL . . so ya met Wayne huh? yes he has some interesting thoughts on the 'ol Cougar. its actually a pretty cool piece, never been rigged or wet. i will probably stop an see him tommorow. anybody got any questions on the boat? i know he has been wanting to move that thing though. he was even playing with the idea of putting some kind of canopy on it and deisels. i agree the outboars wont do that boat very well, hell toss in a set of 750's an have some fun with it :cool: :D .

Wayne has been around boating for some time an has had some interesting rigs. think he just got rid of one of those big 'ol Nitro's. 43 footer i think.

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they dont let ya rig a boat while its being held by federal marshalls . . . :D

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Like I just have wrote in the thread "Systems" that unrigged Cougar seems a sister boat of Reporter,the 38' that Curtis used to race in 1988.
It seems be a 38' with the tunnel extended behind the sponsons.

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