Worst "High Performance" Boats Ever Built?
01-25-2014 | 08:51 AM
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01-25-2014 | 08:58 AM
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Owner was a funny guy to hear the stories about but a crazy guy for sure.....had a girl accidentally commit suicide with a shotgun in his bedroom (she didn't think gun was loaded) so he took her body out on the front lawn and told the cops he didn't know her.....yeah that didn't work. He died a couple years after that incident.
01-25-2014 | 10:31 AM
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From: Miami
How about my buddies 1990 I.M.P.(twin 454), first day out from Gateway Marina, Staten Island to Jersey Shore, two grab handles off the front came off the backing plate, next trip out (locally) Navigator seat unscrewed....etc..etc....by second season hull had significant cracks in it that the boat had to be sold for parts.
01-25-2014 | 01:59 PM
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From: medellin colombia, pablo escobar's lil town
This could very well be the winner.
1988 Peterborough Indy 220 I bought new. 460 King Cobra package
I owned it 2 seasons. Total running time of 119 hrs from new.
It blew 13 drives. I think it spent more time at OMC than with me.
The seat bases pulled out of the floor 3 times and the seat swivel brackets broke 5 or 6 times each.
Cabin doors and frame flew out of the boat and sank in Lake Ontario. Oh ya, and so did the engine hatch.
Cockpit floor lifted from the stringers.
Dash flexed up and down so bad it cracked the windshield on the passengers side.
Swim platform flew off on the highway one day.
Steering rack broke free from the dash.
Radio caught fire. Actual flames came out of the tape slot.
Every screwed part of the boat came lose, repeatedly.
I think I replaced every screw in the boat with the next size up and then epoxy, toothpicks and the next size up.
I traded it for my 1990 Power Play and the dealer called me a week later to ask about the repair to the port stringer. I said no repairs that I knew of. He then told me the motor mount ripped out of the stringer with a 18" long piece of stringer still bolted to it.
Great looking boat but it literally fell apart as it went.
And just for ****sandgiggles, I was turning left one day with it behind the truck on my way back from one of its multiple warranty visits when one of the trailer axles sheered off sending a wheel, tire, brake drum and axle chunk careening into the door of a parked cop car.
1988 Peterborough Indy 220 I bought new. 460 King Cobra package
I owned it 2 seasons. Total running time of 119 hrs from new.
It blew 13 drives. I think it spent more time at OMC than with me.
The seat bases pulled out of the floor 3 times and the seat swivel brackets broke 5 or 6 times each.
Cabin doors and frame flew out of the boat and sank in Lake Ontario. Oh ya, and so did the engine hatch.
Cockpit floor lifted from the stringers.
Dash flexed up and down so bad it cracked the windshield on the passengers side.
Swim platform flew off on the highway one day.
Steering rack broke free from the dash.
Radio caught fire. Actual flames came out of the tape slot.
Every screwed part of the boat came lose, repeatedly.
I think I replaced every screw in the boat with the next size up and then epoxy, toothpicks and the next size up.
I traded it for my 1990 Power Play and the dealer called me a week later to ask about the repair to the port stringer. I said no repairs that I knew of. He then told me the motor mount ripped out of the stringer with a 18" long piece of stringer still bolted to it.
Great looking boat but it literally fell apart as it went.
And just for ****sandgiggles, I was turning left one day with it behind the truck on my way back from one of its multiple warranty visits when one of the trailer axles sheered off sending a wheel, tire, brake drum and axle chunk careening into the door of a parked cop car.
01-25-2014 | 04:59 PM
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From: Lake Wallenpaupack, PA
The Bayliner Cobra gets my vote too. One sank in my marina back in the 90s. I showed up one Saturday morning early to head out on my boat and there's the bow of the Cobra sticking straight up out of the water. Nobody had discovered it yet! I remember it had fancy metal flake gelcoat and bright colors.
