Chris Cats
 

Anyone have any pics they could post of old Chris or Shadow race cats like Sunoco, etc.
Thanks: Matt

Re: Chris Cats
 

okay...

These are all Shadows...not Chris Cats.

T2x

Re: Chris Cats
 

Thanks Rich, how much difference are the Shadow and CC?

Re: Chris Cats
 

I have pics somewhere of the old King Sting shadow

WAS the fastest in the country at 120 mph thats stock speeds today. lol :drink:

Shadow Cat
 

Shadow
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7...gelargeho6.jpg

Re: Chris Cats
 

S-351 , Rich did'nt you race that boat in Key West 1981

Re: Chris Cats
 

is that boat like the awesomes, looks almost identical

Re: Chris Cats
 

Chris Cat had had a single dyhedral sponson which was widened to accomodate big blocks..... Shadow had multidyhedral sponsons (more sophisticated actually)...but narrower. Result the Chris was a better inboard hull..the Shadow was faster with OB's ..... and had a slightly better ride in choppy water. Slow speed turns (rollout speed) were better in the Chris.

T2x

Re: Chris Cats
 

Yes....we won the first race (Me and Wayne Vickers)..... placed in the second with one engine hanging back from broken mounts...and the engines lost their top mounts completely in the third...one of the roughest races I've ever seen. We were out at the western end of the course when it happened (about 20 miles west of Key West towards the dry Tortugas)....a Loooong way back under tow. :D

As we were coming back we saw Fayva Shoes awash and a bunch of other boats disabled...a complete mess. Understand at that point I had not been in an offshore race in 15 years and had just come off a career driving tunnel boats on lakes and rivers. I was convinced that offshore racing was a disastrous abuse of good hardware........... and should be done exclusively on someone else's nickle...... That's still sound advice :p :p :p

T2x

Re: Chris Cats
 

Uh ...this may come as a surprise to you.....but.. that hull had a whole 'nother life before there even was an Awesome. It was the top offshore production design from 1980-1985..... Of course, today it's "obsolete"...... and the Awesome is "state of the art". :D

T2x