Originally Posted by lakepop (Post 2781646)

Jo was from west saint louis county and the five mile marker lake of the ozarks. Boat was in Chicago area a few years ago

Originally Posted by fobes (Post 2781775)

From what I have seen Joe Mach ran a 35' Cougar prior to the 42' CUV and then 50' CUV. On the Big Seas DVD about Cougar it shows the boat running but Rich comments that they couldn't seem to get it to run right. It was red white and blue, not all red like the CUV's. I will see if I can attach a picture later.
Matt

Originally Posted by fobes (Post 2781775)

From what I have seen Joe Mach ran a 35' Cougar prior to the 42' CUV and then 50' CUV. On the Big Seas DVD about Cougar it shows the boat running but Rich comments that they couldn't seem to get it to run right. It was red white and blue, not all red like the CUV's. I will see if I can attach a picture later.
Matt

Originally Posted by AIR TIME (Post 2782800)

smitty smith was a funny guy, I was talking to him at 94 kw, talked about him and joe mach, and I tend to talk a lot, so my wife said can you take him for a ride and he sad sure he can sit on my lap.:p he was throttling the yellow couger from canada I think a 38 footer, could be wrong. its sad he passed away too. that was when gentry rolled went in to a coma that sucked and passed away years later.I was talking to BOBBY MOORE the winning throttleman after the race in open class 94, I was happy that he won but we were sad about TOM , NOT KNOWING how he was doing.that was a good week of racing I think there was over a 100 boats.

Originally Posted by Big Time (Post 2781944)

Was there a "Dirty Laundry" boat that came after the Cougar? I'm pretty sure that my dad's old throttle man Tom Akoury throttled a Dirty Laundry boat but I thought is was a Skater?

Originally Posted by Strip Poker 388 (Post 2783919)

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Originally Posted by MarkSmith (Post 2781703)

You are correct. Mikey Friedman owns it among many others from Chicago. The boats are kept in Florida.

Originally Posted by AIR TIME (Post 2782800)

smitty smith was a funny guy, I was talking to him at 94 kw, talked about him and joe mach, and I tend to talk a lot, so my wife said can you take him for a ride and he sad sure he can sit on my lap.:p he was throttling the yellow couger from canada I think a 38 footer, could be wrong. its sad he passed away too. that was when gentry rolled went in to a coma that sucked and passed away years later.I was talking to BOBBY MOORE the winning throttleman after the race in open class 94, I was happy that he won but we were sad about TOM , NOT KNOWING how he was doing.that was a good week of racing I think there was over a 100 boats.

Originally Posted by Strip Poker 388 (Post 2783958)

Originally Posted by MidOcean (Post 2784339)

Tom Akoury Throttled "Black Duck". The name of which is interesting... A trivia question. What was the name of the other boat that was in that factual book about prohabition era rum runners?

Originally Posted by fastdonzi (Post 2784415)

The Cigarette.....

Originally Posted by Jupiter Sunsation (Post 2784704)

Not sure which boat this is but it is the one Michael Friedman owns. It was on display but didn't run the poker run that day.....

It was a aluminum boat/ riveted.....

http://www.flpowerboat.com/gallery/d...album=1&pos=89

Originally Posted by Ryan Beckley (Post 2781969)

Before the Cougar there were a couple 32' Skater named Dirty Laundry, Tommy Akoury throttled for Mach Before Hurley Stepp then Smitty Smith....

Originally Posted by T2x (Post 2786294)

I love you guys..... The man asks about a COUGAR and gets a deluge of comments and recollections of CUV's, Skaters, Apache's, Shadows and Lord knows what else....... :p :D

The two (2) red aluminum Dirty Laundrys were both CUV's (That's a boat manufacturer from Italy) and the larger, newer 4 engined hull is the one pictured.....

There was one red, white and blue, Cougar (boat manufactured in England) previous to those hulls called Dirty Laundry and it had air compression issues in the tunnel to the extent that it didn't carry a load well and ran very "wet"...not a good Poker Run platform. That is the hull this thread is about.

The boat I wwned was the red white and blue cougar. The first Rivited.

Prior to those three big boats (Open and Superboat class), Joe was very successful in the modified class with a 32 Skater (boat built in Michigan) "Dirty Laundry" that I believe was later sold to the Duntemans and became "Agitator".... a VERY competitive boat to be sure.

T2x

Originally Posted by T2x (Post 2786294)

I love you guys..... The man asks about a COUGAR and gets a deluge of comments and recollections of CUV's, Skaters, Apache's, Shadows and Lord knows what else....... :p :D

The two (2) red aluminum Dirty Laundrys were both CUV's (That's a boat manufacturer from Italy) and the larger, newer 4 engined hull is the one pictured.....

There was one red, white and blue, Cougar (boat manufactured in England) previous to those hulls called Dirty Laundry and it had air compression issues in the tunnel to the extent that it didn't carry a load well and ran very "wet"...not a good Poker Run platform. That is the hull this thread is about.

Prior to those three big boats (Open and Superboat class), Joe was very successful in the modified class with a 32 Skater (boat built in Michigan) "Dirty Laundry" that I believe was later sold to the Duntemans and became "Agitator".... a VERY competitive boat to be sure.

T2x

Originally Posted by MidOcean (Post 2786680)

The boat I owned was the red, white and blue cougar. The boat had many issues and eventually became the first "Rivited."

Originally Posted by swpr (Post 2795331)

Originally Posted by Apache041 (Post 2802940)

This boat......is now this

Originally Posted by fastdonzi (Post 2802956)

Are you sure? I don't see the tunnel extension on the warpaint, it appears to have a flat transom. Whereas the Labatt has an extended tunnel.