I Am in Doubt....Resto or CC Conversion ??
 

Hi OSO Friends...i have put my Aeromarine IX on sale but noone has taken the hull. I have bought a scarab sport for coming back on the water last week, i should have her in the water next month, since in Italy the weather is a Sh..t...
I am in this situation where i still have the dry martini hull, In your opinion, since it will be a total restoration...should i go for an original old school Offshore running Cig (in the boat there still are all the original pieces from where to start a rebuild) or should i go for a CC style resto ? Maybe putting also a bracket for 3 eggbeaters ?

What do you think ?
Try to be in my situation and give me some kind of advice, i am going nuts looking at the boat...

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This is the sport 30...Will post to the scarab section to have some info/impressions...twin carb 200 hp mercury with racing foot and ss propellers.

If you look under the Cigarette thread you can find my conversion of a 35' Cig into a 28' center console. It is about four pages back in the threads. Let me know if I can help. Bob N.

I'd turn that thing into a CC with a small cuddy up front. Seems like it'd be a lot less work, a fun project and could be an awesome user friendly boat when done.

NOOOO....Don't cut it! Restore it to its former self and put in a mild pair of big blocks and enjoy.....You can find older center consoles a dime a dozen but cant find nice classics like that any more.

That's the point....I'm sure that it will be a great boat, 9.3 beam and plenty of space...But It's the 9yh 36 made by Cigarette, Don Aronow Era....

If you want a fishing boat or want a ton of people on the boat build a cc. If you want a nice boat to drive and Lethe look go then restore the cig. My speed boat is done getting a new blower setup so we took our offshore fishing cc out this weekend for lake bash and the whole time I was wishing I was in the velocity. The cc is great for fishing and I guess it's good for lots of friends, but it made for a long boring ride going from place to place yesterday. We had 9 adults on the cc yesterday and it was heavy and lazy. It wasn't much fun to drive and was more of a water taxi. We did tube behind the cc which we can't do behind the velocity, but that was fun for all of 30 minutes because I got tired of having to pick up drunk people who could not stay on the tube.

I see the new trend is big custom cc's, but I don't get it. I guess you can make them decently fast, but the idea of a cc (I thought) was to allow tons of epode on board. That being the case, you have a 70 mph cc loaded with people and it quickly tuns into a blender as people are being bounced everywhere. In my velocity everyone has a seat and stays in it while under way. My cc has 4 seats and everyone else is standing and holding on the the t-top. All fine until everyone starts drinking and as we are hitting wakes people are thrown around. Just not fun to me.

A 40 foot Mti, fountain, cig, skater etc with great sounding big blocks pulling up to the dock is awesome. A 40 foot yellowfin, deep impact, freeman, fountain etc with 3 or even 4 v-rods on the back although a nice boat just doesn't do it for me as a cruising boat. I'd love one as a fishing boat as I see them all the time in Venice and grand isle, but not impressive when backing in a big cc and it sounds like a group of guys pissing of the back of the boat.


These are only my opinions which I'm sure are different from others. By no means am I putting down the big cc's because I do think they are awesome boats and would love to have one because it would be an awesome boat 80 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico.

Wow....sorry for the long post.

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I totally agree with you cp5899

I think that the cc market will slowly decrease and the 40 footer seating 5 or 6 will be hotter than ever



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A center console is primarily designed for fishing and rigged accordingly. It is not designed for nor would be any fun hauling a bunch of people around. You can not comfortably haul a bunch of people around in a Cigarette 36 or 42 anyway. My 28' cc is for me and one or two friends fishing. I have seating for five, but it's not the quantity, it is the flexibility. All boats are fun, but cc's are for fishing.

I think i'll restore her as a proper Cig. Doesn't make sense having 2 CC, plus here in Italy CC's are smaller, 30 ft is a BIG cc.
Should i go for the original flat deck or build a raised one like the new style Cigs ?

Flat deck!

Flat deck.

Flat Deck will be ! Today i took some references, will start a Thread on a resto soon. Will move the back bulkhead a little since i plan on keeping the motors side by side and have some more space in the cockpit.

Resto
 

In the meantime...

Allright! The work begins!

That boat has nice old school lines. For me, I would try to model the deck to look like an Apache 41 with the integrated faring and single bow rail down the center. But thats just me.