Thanks, This was in April 1979 MB&S magazine...This produced a top speed of 66 mph.

Interesting boat , quite like the teak layout would like to see how three big blocks are shoehorned in there any more pictures or information on this monstrosity?

Does anyone have a 1972 Cigarette brochure?

Bring an old thread alive.

anyone know where a 36 widebody hull is? Rotten and ready for full rebuild.

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there is a 33 on Facebook marketplace in Illinois.

Get a hold of Mark at Bam marine and see if he wants to part with his old 36.

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Tommy, Are there more pics of Mark's 36 besides those you posted?

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Somewhere on the site there is a pic of Bam behind Marks K5 Blazer in Fort Lauderdale for Spring break.

Found it .


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I believe Mark said it was the original Aeromarine 1.




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Mark's boat Bam is currently owned by the guy who also owns The Beast. His name is Andre Thor Malik, and is a captain out of Florida. The Beast had new engines put in and was somewhere in Michigan. It is supposed to be done but I have not seen it in the water. I know he had done a wrap on Bam and I believe he had it for sale.

The Beast that was for sale years ago out of Chicago maybe?

Yep, that is the one.

Hard to believe what they used as Tow Rigs back in the day. Wasn't it Bobby that posted a pic of Cig behind a Caddy?

Now we flame on a guy w a F150 :lolhit: of course that Blazer had a Much better frame under it.

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Towing that boat with my Blazer was the second stupidest thing I ever did. Blazer had plenty of power (I had swapped in a 454) but zero stability.
We lost control of it and wound up with the boat & trailer on it's side in the grassy median near Bowling Green just before sunrise. The "we" consisted of myself and Jim Gaffrig (rip).

TG I was compulsive when it came to strapping it down with 2 ratchet straps on each corner in the back and 4 on the nose. Boat did not move a single inch on the trailer with zero damage.

Thanks to our MacGyver skills and some amazing wonderful people in Bowling Green we managed to get back on the road before the end of the day.

ps - that was the last time I towed with the Blazer.

That trailer had to weigh 5 -6 thousand plus. What was the deal back in the day with trailers having transversal bunks rather than longitudinal bunks ?

Back in 86 I rebuilt a 85 Sr302 Kaama boat for a guy who sunk it up on the beach . I got it done so we could meet up at a poker run that was at the big resort in Islamorada.

That heavy pig sat on tall bunks on the aluminum i-beam trailer so it could be fork lifted off. To top it all off his tow vehicle was a lifted New Bronco with 38s.

He had very little towing experience so he had me drive. We took 41 down from Naples to the Keys and I held on for dear life every time a semi blew by us from the opposite direction.

And the #1 stupidest thing you ever did ?


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Still one of the best looking wide bodies out there. Loved the red deck and clean look.

My buddy Steve Lucky Strike.......monster trailers with the Subburb towing


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Was that cradle wood ?

Tommy Im not sure but looks like steel to me, Steve has past so I cant ask.....RIP

I agree probably steel. Trailer weighed as much as the boat.
Rip Lucky Strike

Thanks!!
Most stupidest thing I ever did was putting a Kawasaki 500 on a go cart, Spent 3 days unconscious in the hospital after I flipped it in front of my parents house.


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Super adventurous! Wild and crazy guy!.....you lived to tell the story!

Mark is this Bam back in the day ? Hull #?
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Been in Emergency care for 2 weeks with terminal C complications due to chemo and multiple operations. A renewed thread like this is the best med for me.

Grateful to you boating fellows that got personal photos and memories. I've got John's Searace book and all the conversations with him before he got ill.

Connected him with the old friends of Don Aronow and John, the Boghammar offshore racing family and still manufactured, licenced by Don, Magnum Boats by Boghammar Marine

in Stockholm, Sweden. Happy Holidays to You All & yes, R.I.P. Lucky Strike Steve and I'm never forgetting his kind exchanging of info by phone and OSO pm's.

P.S. 40 lbs pounds of muscle gone and doctors have been saying maybe another 6 months for 2 years. The Swedish American Viking is still ready for his

Team Scarab 31 in 2025. Here's a wonderful video by Tim and Terri from Cowes 2024. There's plenty of other great ones on their channel. D.S.


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Thoughts and prayers for you Lars, Ive always been impressed with the amount of knowledge you bring to this site.......take care

Thank You from the depth of my heart. Wish You Happy Boating, Good Health & A Joyful Time Among Loved Ones.

May God Bless you Lars!....to define a friendship is neither political nor asymmetrical, but one thing we share for certain is our love of powerboating. In this case your a solid friend...Fight on my friend!

Yes, don't remember the hull number but I think I have some paperwork that shows it. Back then there was no hin.

Hang in there Lars.

I’ll drag up some old school threads to give you some reading material . I would walk over a brand new hi tech cat to look at a 50 yo performance boat.

Thank You all for your support. We all have loved ones or we ourselves deal with some serious maelstroms at times. My mother had the crap I've got and passed at 43 after

18 months of serious suffering. Treatments nowadays are much more tailor-made, but these kinds of cancers are the same as ever. There's no cure and all one is

able to do is eat right, exercise, sleep well and avoid stressful sh.t. In other words, all the stuff one should normally do anyway. Side effects are nasty, but previously

having set up everything for my wife and other loved ones, so they will have no financial worries when I'm gonzo was always my goal. I've actually haven't been this

content and enjoyed every day to its fullest since I was a kiddo playing with my self-made toy boats along our docks and granite rocks in the Archipelago of

Stockholm. The King of Sweden bought a Magnum 35 around 1975 that he named Green Beam and it was the first American-made Magnum I saw. When Don raced

in Sweden 1966 and 1967 I was a toddler. The King often came to our neighbors and we'd jump in our small boats and escort him in. His friend Sten Kreuger was the

nephew of Ivar Kreuger who had a monopoly on matches, in the 1920s, through his Swedish Match Co. he gobbled up companies in the U.S. and continental Europe,

went delinquent and to a great deal caused The Great Depression. Our other neighbor had Scandinavian distribution rights for Riva Boats, Ferrari, Maserati, and Lamborghini.

Interesting times for us kids, but all the islands, fishing, sailing, windsurfing, and eventually speedboating was what it was all about, In a sense Swedish children

post WWII until 1980 had it better than any generation in our history.


During my 40 years in America, the quality of life for the majority of Swedish people has got

worse and worse. The ones of our generation who stayed on track have never had it better, but that's now less than 10% of the population. Danish, Norwegian,

and Finnish people in general have a better life than most Swedish people now. I'm grateful for my adventures in the U.S. It's been a lot of hard work, but working

hard and playing almost as hard is truly rewarding and I've got a feeling that most guys that have been around on this forum since the start share those qualities.

Keep the boating up and by the way, who's got an original Donzi Marine 28?

P.S. I sure look forward to more old threads or stories Tommy. Couldn't agree more about spotting an old high-performance boat, and not even noticing the seven

figure cats with anything from twin Mercury Racing 1,100 to quad Mercury 1,550 motors. D.S.

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One of my first threads when I found this site. https://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/...ispreloading=1

Posted in the wrong thread. It belongs in Tommymonza's 1970s Miami Glamour Boats.

1970 by Bertram proposed cruiser: 32 Rough, based on the older widebeam race boat hull.