In 1982 Quam had a new Active cat built, and raced it as Flap Jack before July 1982. By July Rocky became the driver & Quam the throttled. They won the July 14 1982 Benihana race in Quams renamed [BENIHANA] Active cat. They crashed this Benihana in the Sept 1982 Kiekhaefer race. Active took this cat back for repair and sold it to Red Crain. Quam got a new Active cat for the 1983 race season that was named Flap Jack, and maybe Thunder Cat ? Quam would not win with this Active cat [Flap Jack] untill the 1985 Cape Coral race. Red raced his Chrysler Laser Active cat with Bob Kaiser in the 1983 season. Red would rent, & race this cat under many names over the years. Hope this clears up how there were two Flap Jacks Active cats that I know of.

they are not the same company, active/cougar cats were made in michigan the company has went under different names through the years /image/baja/express/ ocean express ross focht sr has been behind all these companies.

Brad, The Cougar cat you are selling was made by cougar in miami, that particular boat was owend by Ross Perot. it's Kevlar (the first 30' kevlar they made) when built new it had counter rotating motors, I'll tell you he spared NO Expense when that boat was built, Dupont was there for the layup, he had his own riggers there to supervise the rigging. thats was a hell of a boat back then.

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Thanks for that full reply `h20boater`.As `Black Tornado` knows,when an owner has several boats of the same name and look it can become a bit of a brain teaser.

I know what you mean, Red would have a new name on his cat at almost every race. The sign painters loved him.

Pete Huber (Hubner?) was the black haired big guy that rode in the boat also. Ted Tolmans twins had the sister ship to Dannys 32 wood cat. It was painted yellow and sponsered by some shirt co. they raced class 2 in europe, the boat was rigged and painted in Miami.

The 2 aluminum 46' V's where built in Miami, the Alumium cats where built in England. Then they made the glass 46's in Miami as well as the 30' cat (non race boat) only about 6 of them(30' cats) built while they where there. Tony Roberts made his own mold for the 46' V bottom from a boat cougar left when they moved. Cougar took their molds with them.

There are some Cougar V molds in Clearwater still?????

Those are probably Tony's molds. IDK what he did with them when he got out of the biz. I know Cougar took theirs back to england.

I'm sure that someone has posted pics of this but I couldn't find them, I took these yesterday while trying to avoid LA traffic. In a boatyard b/t venice beach and LAX. just HAD to stop, you don't see classic raceboats like this in MO very often.