New Toy - BLUE THUNDER
 

Found this old boat at a repair shop and it had been sitting for a really long time. Made a deal on it and brought it home. Pulled the nests out of the exhaust. Charged the batteries, and voala. Using the loosest interpretation of the world "functional", most everything seems to work. Need to figure out how to handle it, but it is a rocketship once it gets on plane.

Used to be named "BLUE THUNDER". Anyone know this boat?

Is that a Cougar?

Damn...That looks fun!

Yeah, old Cougar. I didn't know that they even made them in fiberglass.

Or it might even be a different company than the ones that were made out of aluminum.

Congratz BIG Daddy , whats that thingy in the bacK ?? L@@ks like a shopping cart handle to push that bad boy around ...:D

That is the best description yet. That is actually the naked ***** seat. I am going to put in fur padding for them and some handles. :cool-smiley-011:

I seen some pics of them cougars with the wing and nice paint & they look Badd Azz :cool-smiley-011:

Phuch the handles , wheres the Pole ??????? not that pole you Perv :D:D

looks cool, whats in it and what is she to run at ??????

850's and #4's. I have heard some pretty fast numbers, and after sitting in the seat, I think it will get there.

I need some seat time to figure out how to run it.

The cool thing is the seating for 10 in the cockpit.

That friggin boat is so wide , the pics Leon sent bill jr the front seat is bigger then our sofa :D which is a very good thing :cool-smiley-027:

Cool boat my bro has one with 800's & Arensons.

I have the same boat redone it 3 years ago still have to get all air out of steering lines at 98 it like to wonder a little but had 25% throtle left bad fast for the year:ernaehrung004:

Have you tried breaking the line loose at the ram and turn the wheel that way until the fluid comes out solid. Break the other line loose and turn it the other way.

This boat was built with arnesons, and then some genius took them off and put the 4's. :Whatever:

Jeff- post up some more pics of that thing- what happened to the Cig/Apache idea?:D

I have not yet when i got done with that one at the end of summer was going to work the bugs out got side track with a house problom and now i am working on my 38kv mv but i want to get back on it this sommer

It is still there. I am thinking of taking the rigging out of this one and building a big V. But this one is a pretty fun boat.

Need to get into it a little. Havn't done anything yet except put in gas and charge the batteries.

I am trying to change an impellor right now. They shoe horned the giant engines into it.

Some pics before I started cleaning it.

looks just like myne i have littelfield 871 with 9 lb of bust arnson #6 when i got it had twin tubo on motors talk about tight

How hard is it to get those on plane?

not bad but i took a lot of whight out the carpet and pading was crazy thick and hevey and that help lift the nose then turned drives outward that help stop some bow steer

1985ish? Looks very cool.

Cool boat!

Daaaaamn! That boat is WIDE! You got two 2-person bolsters, plus space to walk between them? And COUCH in the back? You could use that thing as a school bus...it looks like a really fun boat...congrats!:cool:

I noticed that yesterday on the water. I was looking around under the cabin.

So Spinning the drives outward helped it a little.

I think I am going to try some 4 or 5 blade props. I can loose a little speed.

I burned about 100 gallons through it yesterday. Took a little getting used to , but I stil have a lot to learn on driving it.

Cool find!:cool:

Thanks, Trying to figure out if I can afford to keep it. :(

Cheap Bastage :D:D:D

Trust me, I am not cheap. Just short on cash flow.

I might sell the race boat. Don't know if I can keep them both right now. Burned $500 of fuel through it yesterday and didn't really run it that hard.

AeroMarine
 

The boat is an AeroMarine. The hull was originally designed by Cougar in England. Then the molds were made for FlightMarine in Fort Lauderdale around 1980. Then the molds went to Aero Marine.

So is it still a cougar? Or is it an Aero Marine?

Title says Cougar, so that is what it will stay legally.

I have been trying to do some research as to where the molds ended up after this company disolved? Was there more developement? Where did the guys go that worked there, and where are they now? Maybe they don't do boats anymore, but if they did, where did their knowledge end up.

Get used to it :D can't put a price of funn:cool-smiley-026:

That's what I tell the girls in the strip club. :cool-smiley-026:

No BIG Daddy thats what they tell you :D:ernaehrung004:

Only when I am negotiating. :ernaehrung004:

Blue Thunder
 

It's a Cougar SportCat 30, It was built at the 188st North Miami factory in the 80's for Ross Pero? (the guy who ran for president) I was part of the team who built it, looks in good condition. The hull was originaly designed for Wellcraft not Flight, Wellcraft did not put it into production as they were worried cats would not take off, so Cougar produced them, during the life span there where three deck designs, I cut the moulds up about ten years ago when we had a big clearout.

Cool. Good info.

As far as the RossPerot thing, I havn't verified it myself yet, but i have heard it from 2 sources.

Working on a few of the smaller issues on it right now. Mostly electrical stuff and a few trim indicator cables, so I can get it ready for the Tres class.

Thanks for the info. How many of these boats were built with either of the decks?

It was Ross's boat BIG Daddy and was suppose to come with some really cool lookin autographed pics ... Better head to ross's house this morn :D:cool-smiley-027: