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I’m glad I can say I own one before new ownership took over. Like someone said earlier in this post some of the luster is gone since the new ownership bought in.
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Originally Posted by Skater30
(Post 4942464)
Every month or so it blows my mind to see another new manufacturer enter the 30' and up outboard cat market. There can't possibly be enough buyers to profitably sustain them all. There must be 30+ different manufacturers building 30' and up outboard cats now, we'll see how many are still around 10 years from now.:food-smiley-007:
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Cc imo are the yuppie boats
after a while they all look izod Bring back the styles that set the pace That goes for all Formula, cigarette, scarab But I am old and miss the 80s and 90s Of go fast, sleek long noses rumble out back |
I find it hard to believe all the OB cats as well, and the prices even for used ones. Add in insurance costs and they are over the top.
Yet OB performance V's just do not seem to sell either, outer limits tried it in the 29 and a 37 I think. Was one of the bigger ones and maybe 2 of the 29's. DONZI showed drawings of one but never built it. No one seems to want to build them. |
Originally Posted by Wildman_grafix
(Post 4942483)
No one seems to want to build them.
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That and there's just something visceral about an open exhaust on an inboard engine that you just dont get with the outboards....dont get me wrong they have their own "sound" to them which i can appreciate...but still doesn't put a tingle in the berries like a nice healthy Big Block engine will :D
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Originally Posted by Wally
(Post 4942485)
I feel there is a stigma around outboards that no one knows how to work on them. When i talk to people about boats, around here in Chicago anyway, you mention outboards and its all kind of the same story...they grew up on boats and their parents had a small boat with maybe a 15hp outboard on it, but when it broke there was no one to fix it. On the other hand with an Inboard it basically a car engine so any yahoo that knows some basics of any car engine can work on it. Funny thing is all the same exact principles apply to outboards. I think they got a bad rap when they were two strokes and have never really been able to shake that off...
Down here, NO ONE will work on a I/O, very few if any shops will touch them anymore. It is wild how it has flipped. |
Concept, Amp and STR are introducing 40ft Cats. Now Cigarette?
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Originally Posted by Sydwayz
(Post 4942448)
I was told they cut the deck off of this abomination, trimmed it down, grafted it onto the two unfinished Cigarette PWC prototype hulls; and BAM: the new Cigarette Mini-Catamaran.
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Originally Posted by Skater30
(Post 4942464)
Every month or so it blows my mind to see another new manufacturer enter the 30' and up outboard cat market. There can't possibly be enough buyers to profitably sustain them all. There must be 30+ different manufacturers building 30' and up outboard cats now, we'll see how many are still around 10 years from now.:food-smiley-007:
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