Is this the "Pink Flamingo"?
 

I seem to remember there was another boat similar to the Pink Flamingo.......hope this wasn't Lucky's old boat?

http://www.offshoreonlyclassifieds.c...o19861-en.html

OUCH, not sure what happened there, it can be fixed, but will probably come back.

Yup :( sure looks like to me Russ. What happened??? :confused:

That IS the ole Pink Flamingo. The hull seperated during the SCOPE Poker Run about 10 miles out towards Catalina. John was unaware that she was taking on water until the passanger in the rear asked why her ankles were getting wet and if water should be sloshing on the cockpit floor. Swift action by the Coast Guard kept her from completely going down. Raise a glass for this classic. Salud!

Hugh

Wow. That used to be a nice Cig.

Who is the guy that is rebuilding the burnt hull 38 Top Gun? This could be a great investment for him.

Yeah then he could have two junk boats in his barn never to see water again....................:D

No Doubt!! 25k he'd get motors/drives/all interior (cabin/cockpit) trailer/rigging/ throttles/gauges/ etc etc

This would def. be a good purchase for him. He's done some amazing work to that boat he has now!!

The deck and dash should be priceless to him..

I've seen boats banged up a lot worse than that and they were all fixed. I guess it's hard to tell from the pics just how bad it is...

I've seen a lot worse that were repaired and just as strong as they were before, in some cases stronger.

Travis sold everything to someone else. the boat is in St. Louis now.

Ad says deal pending already.

I heard Bobby and Jason are at Home Depot stocking up on duct tape right now!

:eek:

This same failure happened to a few 1991's due to a size problem of the fiberglass material. Without the overlap of the 60" sheet, there was a structural weakness in that area.

I've seen another older gun do same thing after a hard run.

How difficult of a repair is this, being a carbon Fiber edition?

Where the repair is needed there is no carbon fiber.

Had the same probelm with overlap, like Ed suggested, in my old Scarab.

In my case it delaminated in the keel. We wound up cutting the keel section about 5-6ft long. It was determined that Wellcraft only overlapped the keel about 4-5 inches and which made it weak. Then we cut the floor out of the cabin liner. Feathered all the edges and began the re-glass process...layer after layer after layer...overlapping about a foot and a half each time...then we added a stringer down the keel and about 7 mini bulkheads width wise just underneath the cabin liner...then glassed the cabin liner back into palce...I also removed and replaced the gas tank and added additional layers of glass in the keel under the tank. While we were at it I added additional builkheads throughout the boat and spent about two weeks blue printing the bottom of the boat. In the end the boat was stronger than it was before the delamination failure and I gained 3 mph.. :eek::cool-smiley-011:

Nice work. It's always good to see a positive difference after a project is completed.


Darrell.

Is this something that could have ever been caught during a survey, or just a "known issue" with the manufacturer?

Impossible to detect BEFORE the failure happens. When it does, it usually happens all at once. Not all 1991s did it, but one I sold to a guy in Chicago did. Cigarette repaired it under warranty back then, rather than get the negative publicity.

That's what's nice about fiberglass. If the right guy fixes it it's better than the original.

Thanks. Kind of what I thought. Man, the gremlins that you must know about from seeing all the boats you have over the years....

Scary sometimes, but it makes me a better surveyor.

Thanks Ed!!

But in all honesty I have to give most of the credit to Frank F. and FiberGlass Plus in Pt. Pleasant NJ!:drink:

Frank and his crew did delam. work and I did the bulkheads and blue printing.:cool-smiley-011: