Hi guys,

Here are the pics of the cigarette that I found being refurbished on the gold coast in Queensland.

The guy working on it said "its an old race boat, it was called slingshot".

The boat is unrecognisable from back in the day.

It has two new 454's in it, Bravo xr legs. The interior was nothing like a cigarette set up.

454's = PIG.

I think it is wrong to do this to a famous race boat.

It's nice looking but I'll never understand why they can't just do it to a boat with NO race history.....

I thought "Slingshot" was this type of hull?

To be honest so did i. Maybe there were a couple? It is just odd that a factory worker working on the boat said its name was slingshot and it was a raceboat...there arent too many cigs in australia, and the odds of there being two different race boats both cigs here called slingshot from the same era probably aren't going to happen.

Peter Deans 40` was a wide beam, not the narrow beams like slinshot etc. He also did a pop of the 40 and stretched it to 44` that boat I raced against in 1980 ???? in one of the qualifying races for the worlds in Port St. Phillip bay in Melbourne, I was with Gentry, the seas were horrendous, 8 to 12`s wind blowing 40 mph. Really nasty day. it took us almost four hours to complete the 80 mile short course, anyway the 44` came past us in a blaze of glory, and then stuffed through a huge wave, when it came up it was broken in half, and washed up on the beach. We won the race, it was called the Mercury Trophy race. 7XCHAMP

The boat pictured apears to be a narrow beam because of the knuckle on the side which was a trademark of the narrow beams. The 36` and 40` wide beams had a flange on the hull side from front to rear approx. 12 to 14 inches down from the deck bow to stern. To my knowledge I don`t believe Peter Dean had any narrow beam boats. And if the one in the picture was a forty it would have the stepped sides at the transom where don extended the 35` and I don`t see that. I don`t believe the boat pictured was even a race boat, looks like a regular 35` ?????? 7XCHAMP

Peter Dean still has his last race boat at his shop (PROPCO) in Monroe , Georgia