47'Ocean Express on Ebay

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05-30-2011, 07:18 PM

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First 48 with triples, many owners over the years. Storied past. I believe it sank during a race, messy fight with Focht and C&G. Ran over another boat while leaving Port Everglades one year, during Fort Lauderdale boat show. Always wondered what happened to it.

you are incorrect the first 48 was a 1991 with triple 6's aka "apache express" it was rigged by apache owned by phil feldman and juan almeida and it was raced to victory by vanilla ice in 1991 ...... it ran over a boston whaler or some small boat one night after a party.... which apparently had no lights

05-30-2011, 08:28 PM

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Any pictures of it when it was apache express?

05-30-2011, 08:45 PM

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Any pictures of it when it was apache express?

i had one ad i saved when i was a kid...cant find it..... it was sweet sick apache type interior with harness' ran like 125 130..... apache paint .....i think they wanted 580k back then

05-30-2011, 08:51 PM

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A guy in CT owned the boat. A buddy has a VHS tape all about the boat.

05-30-2011, 09:15 PM

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A guy in CT owned the boat. A buddy has a VHS tape all about the boat.

i saw it for sale a few years ago at big thunder with no drive train.... sad

05-30-2011, 09:24 PM

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http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/g...oat-racer.html

05-30-2011, 09:49 PM

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Damn, nice work!

05-30-2011, 09:50 PM

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There's another 48 Ocean Express that has just been sitting and rotting away in CT. Such a shame. The guy that owned Apache Express in CT had it in the mid 90's I believe.

05-31-2011, 05:07 AM

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Forgive my memory, I thought the Juan/Phil boat was the same hull, only repowered as one of Juan's publicity stunts. I think you are correct about the year, what year was the hull that I'm thinking of? It had to be before 1994, I think?