28 Skater Dual Canopy INFO
 

Hello - I am trying to find info on this boat. Old pics, old race names, old locations etc. It is a 1994, came from factory as dual canopy


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https://www.speedonthewater.com/upst...-28-catamaran/

Maybe this one?

The speed on the water boat is very similar and it is already at Upstate powerboats getting redone. My cousin bought the boat I posted and it is going to Upstate Powerboat in a few weeks. Trying to find info on it. Where its been, what its old race name(s) used to be etc, old pics etc.

That picture is from 2003 or 2004 and that is when Dave Thomas in Huntington Beach owned it. I believe it's the same 28 in the SOTW article. He owned SpeedWear back then and did shirts/uniforms for a lot of the OS teams. He and his wife at the time (in the boat with him in the pic) were up here in Nor Cal for the Benicia POPBRA races in 2003 and rode with me in my 28/300 rig to watch the races that weekend. I don't know the history on the boat though.

Skater30. The SOTW boat is at Upstate Powerboat right now getting redone. The boat in the pic I posted is a 1994 28 which currently looks like this (see attached). Yes, the UGLIEST 28 in all the land, bayliner windshield and U-bench seating. Phil at Upstate will be getting this boat in a few weeks for a full pleasure restoration as Skater intended them to look like. We are trying to incorporate some of its history in the restoration which is why I am trying to figure out its history. The 28 was owned by David and Leon Ortemond who died in a 36 skater back in 2012, and I dont know Leon, but the guy in the pics kinda looks like him based on some pics ive found, which would put that picture around 2011? 2010? Did Dave Thomas own the boat I posted, or the one from SOTW?

Thank you!
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I could be mistaken, that was 20+ years ago and that pic is definitely not very clear. I do clearly remember that Dave owned a Skater 28 in those early 2000s years and he and his wife could pass for the couple in that picture you posted. I never saw his 28, as he never brought it up North and I only took my 28 down South a few times so we never ran our 28s together. Like I said, he and his wife rode with me one weekend and that's when he told me he also had a 28 Skater - I assumed it was the one you posted a pic of when it looked like him and his wife at the time in it.

Skater30 Its a wild goose chase with almost 20 years of its life missing HAHA. I appreciate your attempts to help very much! If anything comes to mind, let me know

The 28 in the picture was the old Citre Shine race boat raced by Paul Whiter and Joe Black and then became. No Limits when I raced the boat with Kip Cyprus and he sold it to Dennis McCarthy of Huntington Beach not Dave Thomas and then the boat went back east that's the last I know of the boat.

Thanks for the history lesson! I remember the boat when it was Citre Shine, wasn't that around the same time the Xplosive 28 Skater was racing (mid-nineties)? So was Dave Thomas out of Huntington or Long Beach?

Thanks a lot!

How many race 28s were built? When was the last one built?

I believe Citre Shine became NZ Blokes and is still in New Zealand to this day. The Citre Shine boat's deck was much flatter and no nav lights on the side. Do you have any more pics of Citreshine from above?

I am thinking this boat is the old Esso Ultron D-44 boat. I know there were 2 Esso Ultron 28's, the other one was S-44 I believe which is a different boat. If anyone has more pics of Esso Ultron D-44, I would greatly appreciate it!

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S-44 Esso Ultron was the Warelius brothers from Finland.

https://kipparilehti.fi/kilpaveneet-...anoja-vedessa/

D-44

So far I have come across the following although I dont know if 100% accurate:

Warelius bros out of Finland had two 28 skaters. The S-44 boat is a different boat than what my cousin just bought. The Warelius other boat, the D-44 boat (the YouTube video you posted), this looks just like what we have. The hatch on the starboard side just in front of the vent is a big identifier as that hatch is a different location on almost all of the dual canopied boats it looks like. The D-44 boat came in 3rd place in 1994 UIM Class III 4 Litre.

Petri Jokinen / Liro Saarinen then raced this boat and won the 1998 UIM Worlds in it.

At some point after that, it was sent to Argentina by Jokinen to compete in some kind of invitational race and it delaminated in the front sponsons then its been tossed around the USA ever since.

Was owned by the Ortemonds (they died in a 36 skater accident in April 2012 on Lake Pontchartain)

After that was owned by someone in Georgia, then at least 2 people in TN, I spoke with one of the TN owners. Then it went to Ontario Canada, then sold to Florida where they cut the canopies off and put an ugly windshield as well as a U Bench rear seating, which is how it stands today.

this 28 race just made it to my shop last week
was built with all the others in the 93-94 window
been in bermuda all its life was originally yellow when built
so can add on this 1 to the list of 2 canopy 28s
already fully gutted and cut off canopys for full pleasure conversion
any 1 wanting canopys,big rear hatch,,,,,lmk,,need gone
also the 1 at phills was the 1 that raced here and couple other countries
made it back here to houston,,,went through many hands till phill got the resto
as over 1/2 the balsa was gone so phill did awsome job to bring back to life

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johnmiffco Do you know what name or names your boat used to race under?

this is a customers boat that just bought and had shipped back here from bermuda for the conversion and resto
been in bermuda all its life so do not know a long history of owners there
no name on boat now just sponsors as can see in pic above as how looks now when got here
as was still racing it there with 300xs motors
do know it was originally a yellow hull when built

this is pics of masons boat that phil is finishing up
it was the 1 raced here then overseas in new zealand
then brought back to houston in 2019 hanging in his slip here
and sold many times till mason got it and took to phil as was pretty rough shape with lots of core and other issues
phil made it super nice and cant wait to see it on the water as is mason is a local guy

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