Popeyes on e-bay...........
 

Being an old school, vee bottom guy, I absolutely love this thing.

IMO, way up the food chain for, no limits, lets throw as much power at a vee as we can, build a hull as far off the hook as possible, try everything we can think of and then try and tame the beast.
Can't even imagine trying to drive this thing.
Love the aft shot of the barrow beam w/the 3 drives on it.
Yikes.

Enjoy.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/POPEY...orcev4exp=true

Cool boat and a piece of history. But ya better love chicken and biscuits for 125k. :rolleyes:

That boat is all aluminum, correct? No fiberglass work there, you better be a sheet metal fabricator. Wonder what the weight is in comparing it to a newer boat made of composite materials. If it's heavy, I guess; that's why it takes 3 beast, to move it.
Nothing like riding in a boat; that makes you pee blood, later.

man that thing is quite a time capsule, nice.

Now thats true old school!! I love the "Hit the Beach" warning indicator on the dash

Wonder if Sunkin said he owned this one too... :rolleyes:

18,000 lbs! thats why in needs 3000hp wow! cool boat, but thats a lot of money for a boat that needs work. Best of luck to them!!

What is it a CUV???? Gotta love the old school mentality of "lets throw some cash at something because we have tons of it!" lol.

Cougar 46'

Now I see it... Thanks.

Cool boat, nice history but for 125K I would rather have had 47 Apache "Medicine Man" that was for sale last year as a turn key boat. Popeye's is cool but very limited use with the 3 or 4 pack interior and it still needs work (fuel tanks and misc work).

Even if it was turn key at 125K I would still rather have Medicine Man since it is more user friendly.

LMAO I didnt see that the first time, seems like a late warning.........

What is wired to that indicator light? high water alarm maybe?

How would the fixed center drive affect handling?

Cool boat for sure. It was in the building at Castaline Maine in FL for years. I got to climb allover it one day. It was still in great shape back then,looks like it's been stored indoors all this time.

-Love the oldies!

Aluminum done right is tough to beat. Cougar pretty well led the way in offshore and had that market covered.

Yrs back I used to see a 40'ish Fountain look alike that was all aluminum. It was bad ass and well done. You could not tell by looking at it that it was not glass and looked to me, identical to a Fountain. Beak and all. Boat was in Leamington Ontarion on Lake Eries north shore line when I was making my crossings.
I heard it was involved in a fatal accident (nothing to do w/the boat) and has since disappeared.


I owned two different aluminum cabin cruisers and loved them both. Remember too what airplanes are made out of :whistle:

And I never said it was a good deal :thankyouthankyou:

CUV is an Italian shipyard, skilled in aluminum fabrication.

Don Shead designed it, CUV fabricated it, Cougar rigged it.

Cinzano of the same age and lineage is still winning endurance races in Europe.

No, Cougar Designed it, Brownie and his crew at Cougar built it (in the old Donzi building on 188th st),
Bob Idoni, Bill Sirios, & Bobby Moore Rigged it, George Morales paid for it all. Al Copeland bought it from George.

It was lots of fun to watch race. RIP. Al

And another small couger comes up for sell.

http://www.offshoreonly.com/classifi...o50389-en.html

Looks like one we saw...
 

in Key Largo on one of our Keys trips. Never got close enough to talk to them but not much else looks like a Cougar.

Did Morales use this boat to race from Florida to New York?

No, that is when Al bought it from George, Al used this 46', George used his 46' 4 engine Cat

No he used the Cat I believe!!!

No he used el gato which everyone was saying how crazy he was to run a cat from Miami to New York