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T2x 01-19-2011 06:48 AM


Originally Posted by Jorekore (Post 3301132)
This is boat is a 1984 modell but is it still a later modell? :)

It was built after Pruitt got involved....it is one of the good ones.

TGC-32 01-19-2011 01:10 PM

I remember the boat being a 1984 model, and know that it was a balsa cored version. The later boats were Divinycell cored. I recall it being a tad on the "heavy" side and the plan was to replace it with a 1985 hull with Divinycell coring, which Chris-Craft thought would be more reliable and lighter, but the plans to replace it fell through after the boat was sold.

Tom

Big Time 01-19-2011 01:24 PM


Originally Posted by TGC-32 (Post 3300538)
That's the boat that got me started in this crazy hobby. We (Total Marine) sponsored that boat for Phil Melillo and Jim Ross. We were a Chris Craft dealer at the time (I was still in school).

Hey Tom. You don't happen to have any pics of the Duckin' Out on file? I (really my parents) have a ton of pics (paper) sitting around somewhere. That was a great looking boat for back in the day!

TGC-32 01-19-2011 04:55 PM


Originally Posted by Big Time (Post 3301564)
Hey Tom. You don't happen to have any pics of the Duckin' Out on file? I (really my parents) have a ton of pics (paper) sitting around somewhere. That was a great looking boat for back in the day!

I'll have to check. I think I might have your dad's file somewhere in the attic. You're right, that boat really was great looking! Chris-Craft did the custom color (blue) for your dad, and then we had it airbrushed in the New York Colisseum right before the start of the New York Boat Show in 1985.

Say "Hi" to your dad for me.

Tom

Big Time 01-20-2011 11:14 AM


Originally Posted by TGC-32 (Post 3301784)
Say "Hi" to your dad for me.

Tom

Will do...heading up to our cabin for the weekend to get some snowmobiling in with him. I'll mention it to him. Come to think of it, most of the old pics are probably up there...a lot of the "archives" got move up there when they downsized a couple of years ago...I see if I can remember to take a look.

-Chris

540phil 01-20-2011 08:22 PM

Sorry to High-jack but one quick question, does T2x or anyone else on this thread know where "el Gato Grande" is, it was own by an exec of Chris Craft that went to work for Wellcraft about 1984. Nice boat (blk and silver) it had 2-715hp gale banks twin turbos.
at 100mph it made those intercoastal telephone poles look like picket fence going by.

T2x 01-21-2011 07:40 AM


Originally Posted by 540phil (Post 3302997)
Sorry to High-jack but one quick question, does T2x or anyone else on this thread know where "el Gato Grande" is, it was own by an exec of Chris Craft that went to work for Wellcraft about 1984. Nice boat (blk and silver) it had 2-715hp gale banks twin turbos.
at 100mph it made those intercoastal telephone poles look like picket fence going by.

Sorry.. I have no idea.


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